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Credit Union Journal, The, February, 2006 by Kevin Jepson, Technology Writer

Tracking spies isn't the thrill it's cracked up to be.

Mark Reed should know. As the Information Security manager at American Airlines FCU (AAFCU), he's responsible for monitoring the log files that record visits to the credit union's systems and applications. "Log management is pretty boring," said Reed. But with a few tricks he pulled from his sleeve, Reed said logs are now his "best friends."

Reed uses scripting tools to automatically extract only what he wants to see from the volumes of information spit out by the credit union's multiple logs every day. "It's impossible to sit down and read all the lines of a log like regulators tell you to do," he explained. "I tried it one day. I sat down with this million-line log, and I got to line 15 before I closed it and...

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