This guide explains why centralized log management is foundational for lean IT security teams seeking visibility, faster detection, and effective response. It shows how log data from endpoints, networks, identity systems, and applications provides critical context for identifying attacks, reducing false positives, and investigating incidents, while manual log review is slow, error prone, and increasingly ineffective. The guide compares log management approaches and positions centralized log management as a practical step before adopting SIEM, using a data lake to ingest, normalize, and analyze logs at scale. It highlights benefits including real time threat detection, threat hunting, forensic analysis, and regulatory compliance, while noting growing mandates for centralized logging. Overal

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