Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

An audit trail, also known as an audit log, records actions and operations within an organization’s system in great chronological detail. Audit trails can be used in various ways; specifically, in cybersecurity, they identify security violations by detecting who accessed data, what changes were made and when an action occurred.

Let’s be real: your “smart” devices might be the dumbest thing in your house when it comes to your data protection and security. That baby monitor? Hackable. Your home camera? Vulnerable. Even your voice assistant could be spilling secrets you didn’t know it heard. And what about your home router, the nerve center of your connected devices? It’s often an overlooked Achilles’ heel in home security.

In early December, Arctic Wolf Labs began observing a campaign involving suspicious activity on Fortinet FortiGate firewall devices. By gaining access to management interfaces on affected firewalls, threat actors were able to alter firewall configurations. In compromised environments, threat actors were observed extracting credentials using DCSync.

In the digital era, the ability to adopt and integrate technology quickly has become a key driver of business success. Technology decisions are increasingly being made outside IT organizations as cloud-based tools, SaaS platforms, and low-code/no-code solutions become more accessible. Known as business-led IT, this trend democratizes technology, empowering business leaders to innovate independently.

Many organizations today have strict data privacy regulations that they must comply with. These privacy regulations can often clash with the requirements of security, application and operations teams who need detailed log information. This how to guide walks you through redacting message fields for privacy purposes. At Graylog, many of the organizations who use our tool are logging sensitive data that may contain personally identifiable information, health related data or financial data.

In 2025, global cybersecurity trends like the rise of Zero Trust, tightening data privacy and AI regulations and growing concerns over cloud security will only accelerate. Each of these evolving forces will also shift paradigms for the privileged access management (PAM) programs charged with safeguarding IT, cloud ops and third-party vendor users as they perform high-risk operations.