Application Logging Vocabulary Cheat Sheet — Identifying Events
In order to better understand security event logging a good high-level understanding of threat modeling would be helpful, even if it's a simple approach of Orders: could someone order on behalf of another?
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In order to better understand security event logging a good high-level understanding of threat modeling would be helpful, even if it's a simple approach of
Orders: could someone order on behalf of another? Authentication: could I log in as someone else? Authorization: could I see someone else' account?
What would happen if it did?
Orders: I've placed an order on behalf of another... to an abandoned warehouse in New Jersey. Oops. Then I bragged about it on 4Chan. Then I told the New York Times about it.
Who might intend to do this?
Intentional attacks by hackers. An employee "testing" how things work. An API coded incorrectly doing things the author did not intend.
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