Discuss the benefits and pitfalls of relying on security logs. Provide 5 points in favor and five points against using logs and explain. \" Solution Benefits of relying on security logs: 1. security logs are to maintain data about users who are active at a particular time. We can maintain data of frequent users and the data what the users are accessing. 2.Security logs are used to monitor policy violations 3.By maintaining security logs we can identify attackers. 4. By using security logs we can check whether there is any misuse of data. 5.We can protect organization data and prevent various problems created by attackers. Pitfalls of relying on security logs: 1. If security log data is not maintained as read only data , they may get modified or deleted then attack may not be identified. 2. Accessing to security log data must be restricted to protect log file. 3.When log file need to be transfered over a network then we need to send it with secure transmission protocol 4. Log files contain data with different format , which is complex to maintain data. 5. We need to check whether the system is recording log data or not. otherwise protection is not assured. .