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Excel, your new log analysis friend

Microsoft Excel, already installed on most corporate desktops, is commonly underappreciated by IT security practitioners. Data analysis is a common security task and Excel can often be the quickest option to analyse firewall logs, antivirus data, proxy logs, OS logs and a file listing from a compromised server. Data is everywhere and is often more useful than we expect, if we know how to look at it:

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com.au/articles/34005-Excel-your-new-log-file-analysis-friend

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