log analysis concepts by year...

All,

Please don't think I have too much time on my hands :-) Quite the
opposite, in fact! What I describe below was done with a specific
purpose in mind, but the results were fun and thus I am sharing them
with the list.

So, I took the list archives from 2001 to 2006 and run them thru the
concept extraction software to see what log analysis subjects have
been bothering us :-) since 2001.

These things are always hot:
- log standards
- log formats
- syslog
- syslog-ng
- firewalls
- transport
- windows

These have been getting hotter:
- correlation
- monitorting

Things that used to be hot, but not don't raise anybody's blood pressure:
- attacks
- IDS
- XML
- pgp

A fun by-product of this analysis also emerged: results also pointed
to the 3 most relevant people on the list, 2001-2006. Any guesses? :-)

Best,
-- 
Anton Chuvakin, Ph.D., GCIA, GCIH, GCFA
     http://www.chuvakin.org
http://www.securitywarrior.com