Highly Secured Cloud Based Syslog Disaster Management Report

This report delves into the application of a highly secured cloud-based syslog system for disaster management and disaster recovery, with a focus on encrypted logs. It begins with an introduction to disaster management, highlighting the increasing frequency of natural disasters and the import...Read More

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Introduction
Disaster management is a process by which the lives and property of people in the
economy is saved and managed from vulnerable natural and man-made disasters. The rate of
natural disaster has been increasing over the years and this had made it important for the disaster
management companies to take a step to protect the loss that take place. Even with the progress
in scientific and material solutions, the impact of disaster management has not decreased to that
extent. Thus, disaster management forms an integral part of the policy framework of the
economy to save the poor and underprivileged people from the negative impact of such disaster.
Disaster impacts property and huge loss to the organization as well that exists in and around the
property. According to () disaster management is a prevention process that involves engaging in
such an activity that would help in reducing the impacts of disasters. Even though all disasters
cannot be prevented, its impact can be reduced to an extent that there is no harm to life and
property. Technology is improving in conducting disaster management work. The technology is
helping the disaster management person to carry out a good deal of control and prevent the
harmful impact. However, it is seen that while implementing the control process.
Disaster has been a common phenomenon in the Indian economy as about 59 percent of
the landmass of India is prone to earthquake, 40 millions are prone to floods and other areas are
prone to various other types of disaster that hits the country from time to time with different
intensities. This has caused great loss to the private, community and public property and thus the
issue has been concerned on the global issue. The annual loss of India due to various disaster that
take place every year is estimated to be $9.8 billion. Among these loss most of the loss has come
from floods. Thus, this gave a wakeup call and has made adequate investment in the reduction of

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risk from disaster loss. Various steps has been taken to control the disasters and to control the
impact various types of timely data is needed and secured so that it can be used to estimate the
threat from any disaster.
The paper plans to conduct a research into the use of highly secured cloud based syslog
disaster management and disaster recovery site with encrypted log. The report discusses the
meaning and concept of syslog in disaster management work in which encrypted log will be used
in disaster recovery site. Further, it proposes method to analyze the role syslog offers to secure
the data while conducting disaster management step and disaster site recovery.
Background
Disaster management system is not an easy process as it requires a lot of information and
analysis to estimate and understand the urgency of the event and the threat a place has from it.
Further, the data is also required while deciding the disaster recovery site also to understand the
risk a place has. It helps in taking the decision about what kind of disaster recovery site an
organization needs and careful planning needs to be done to reduce the risk. However, all this is
not possible without proper data management techniques. One such data management technique
and benefit is offered by the syslog disaster management. Syslog is a system log that allows the
network devices to send messages to a centrally located server. The information from this server
can then be used to help identify critical events and alert the area about the disaster. This is the
recent system that is allowing the disaster management team to secure the area prior to the
disaster. The system is protected by encryption so that there is no kind of data breach in case of
critical incidents. This shows the importance that syslog system has formed in case of disaster
management and this makes it important for the researcher to conduct a research in this

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technology of disaster management process. The syslog system server has an important role to
play to secure the data and use it at the time of emergency. This research will help in knowing
and identifying the critical events, logs, alerts and alarms that is given by the network devices. In
addition to this the attachment of cloud system has helped in accessing the data from the network
form anywhere in the world. Thus, the rationale of the paper lies in the analyzing the role that
syslog plays in disaster management and disaster recovery site.
Aim and Objectives
The aim of paper is to understand the role that syslog system of data management plays
in disaster management and disaster recovery site with the help of encrypted log data. Further,
the analysis will be done on the highly secured cloud based syslog rather than the in house data
management. The paper will directly aim of this system on the basis of disaster management and
not for any other purpose or management areas. The objective of the paper are as follows:
 To analyze the concept of syslog system
 To analyze the importance of high secured cloud based syslog system in which data is
found in encrypted format
 To analyze the availability of the sensitive syslog data in the areas of investigation or
audit
 To investigate into the role of highly secure cloud based syslog data in the disaster
management work
Literature Review

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Syslog is a computing tool that is used for message logging in which it allows all network
devices to send messages to the logging server. This logging servers are also known as syslog
server and are centrally located. The process of syslog is supported by a number of devices or
products that helps to collect logs or records based on a particular event. Syslog allows the
separation of three system that circulates the logs from one place to another such as the software
or device that collects the logs or generates it, the network that stores or transfers the logs or
messages and the software that helps in analyzing those logs. These three processes are managed
by syslog in its own way. The log generated in syslog is assigned with a code and a security level
to help secure the logs from any kind of alterations. It is a common function that is used by the
system designer for system management and security auditing and analysis. There are various
types of standards designed as well in a syslog system that is assigned to the security level
depending on the event that is occurring. Different types of designed standards are emergency,
alert, critical, error, warning and others. These security levels are assigned depending on the
situation and the level of severity that situation might assert. The server using the syslog displays
all types of severity occurring in that system ranging from most severe to least severe level. This
the role that system plays in acquiring the log and transferring it to the situation for usage in a
most secured way. Linus based web server and windows based servers uses various software to
push the syslog message to the syslog server.
() has pointed out that the function of a syslog helps in making the work of the network
admin easier than before as they do not have to log into each devices while investigating about
their network infrastructure. There are various network devices that helps in sending syslog
messages and also confirms that the message has been sent successfully. These devices usually

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uses TCP port 1468 to send those messages in a secured form. According to () syslog messages
are the most helpful one while identifying analyzing information about a critical event, alerts,
logs or alarms. The system helps in addressing those critical events in time by sending useful
message or logs about it. A syslog servers are placed under the same premises in a large scale
data center to be used in an emergency situation. In some cases the servers are also placed in
different geographical locations. This is done so that in case of a critical situation the logs saved
by the server are used as a main fact for investigating into the events. Thus, this is the importance
that syslog holds in a critical incidents and there should always some efforts made to protect the
syslog server so that a conclusion can be reached after a critical incident has occurred.
() has described that syslog server also allows various types of management benefits as
well as syslog messages helps an organization to change from a reactive state to a proactive state.
This means that the organization should use syslog messages for predicting critical events rather
than using it to know the facts of the events after it has been caused.
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Conclusion