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by coldcode 3470 days ago
Logging everything is a great idea, but only if you read the log data. Target installed a system to monitor for certain kinds of security hacks which wrote to their logs files. The logging was turned off due to a high number of warnings cluttering up the logs. Of course the logging was telling them they were being hacked which they ignored for months, leading to all sorts of business disasters.