Microsoft recently announced huge new advances in their upcoming Office 2016 products, both for cloud and on-premise versions. With these announcements came an invitation to participate in one of their software previews. The new features may allow us to deliver even better solutions for LOGbinder customers, particularly those who have (or are considering) hybrid installations of Microsoft’s enterprise software.

We want to get access to these new features immediately and could use your help to do so. Microsoft will give priority to those developers whose customers raise awareness. Therefore, it would a great help to us if you could submit your name in support of LOGbinder to receive admission into the Office 365 Management API Preview. If you want to help us out, look for the field “If you are a customer, which ISV partner are you working with?” We would really appreciate the support! The last time we asked for this kind of help it really got Microsoft’s attention. We’re listed in their system by our parent company name Monterey Technology Group, Inc. who is behind LOGbinder software. Thanks in advance!

No SIEM can deliver the security event data from Exchange, SharePoint and SQL Server without middleware. It’s not the SIEM’s job to address the complexities involved in collecting and translating that event data. It’s certainly not the SIEM’s fault that it needs LOGbinder to bridge the gap between the applications and a log management solution.

Some security analysts tell us that while monitoring the security events from inside the application is vital, they don’t include middleware in the initial budget because they didn’t know it was needed! This is not good. The word still needs to get around. Include LOGbinder in the initial scope when evaluating a SIEM. See here for the list of SIEMs integrated with LOGbinder software.

We hear from security analysts just about every day, from countries all over the globe. Most have found LOGbinder to be, not merely the only solution for solving their huge application security log delivery problem, but a welcomed source of added value to the mundane application security audit collection process. The cost savings associated with manual application security audit inspections and the risk mitigation more than cover the expense.

For many organizations, it is just about impossible to stay on top of all the changes that would affect application security audit policy enforcement. For example, how does an organization make sure Exchange mailbox security audit is adjusted on the mailbox of employees whose job changes (such as during a promotion)? Doing it now is hard enough, but what about as the organization grows or merges or acquires organizations? Security analysts generally have no such visibility into those type of HR events when they happen, if ever. It’s a killer problem. And that’s just for Exchange. Don’t get your people started talking about SharePoint!

Your application security event collection solution must be able to dynamically grow and change with your organization. No solution on earth is a true problem solver if it can’t keep up with the organization, if it can’t enforce the proper audit policy – on the precise object, at the appropriate time – without manual interventions.

LOGbinder software delivers sustainable application security auditing. We make automatic audit policy enforcement possible by site collection in SharePoint and by OU or group in Exchange. LOGbinder brings far greater value to organizations because it has automatic audit policy simply built-in. But more than that, we make it feasible for organizations of any size (who have a SIEM) to solve the huge complexities of security auditing of Exchange, SharePoint and SQL Server – simply, easily, and affordably. And our innovations continue to advance.

Drop us a line to start your own dialog about an application security intelligence solution for Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server and Windows Event Forwarding.