What others are saying…

“Your network devices are trying to tell you that you're under attack. Syslog helps you sort through the data overload to get the message…. Syslog information is sent in plain text and can still be observed as it is going across the network. To protect your syslog transmission, pipe it over SSH.”

InformationSecurity
Squeezing the Most out of Syslog, January, 2007

“ZoneRanger effectively extends the reach of management applications to devices located beyond firewalls, eliminating the need for complicated firewall configurations, extensive agent deployments, or expensive application replication. ZoneRanger also provides security, acting as an application layer proxy firewall, inspecting and validating the traffic relayed between applications and devices.”

Jim Doble, CISSP
CTO, Tavve