Filtering events using clustering in heterogeneous security logs

• Main Authors: Hajamydeen, Asif Iqbal, Udzir, Nur Izura, Mahmod, Ramlan, Abd Ghani, Abdul Azim
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asian Network for Scientific Information 2011
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22453/1/Filtering%20events%20using%20clustering%20in%20heterogeneous%20security%20logs.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22453/; http://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=itj.2011.798.806

Log files are rich sources of information exhibiting the actions performed during the usage of a computer system in our daily work. In this study we concentrate on parsing/isolating logs from different sources and then clustering the logs using data mining tool (Weka) to filter the unwanted entries...