Why Log Tampering Is a Threat

Security logs are the evidence of what happened in your environment. They underpin detection, investigation, and compliance. If an attacker can alter or delete them, you lose the ability to know what occurred, and your audit trail becomes worthless. Protecting log integrity is therefore protecting truth itself.

Sophisticated attackers practice anti-forensics: actively covering their tracks. After gaining access they try to disable logging, delete log files, or stop trails so their later actions go unrecorded. Defeating these efforts is a core part of incident readiness, because an undetected attacker is far more dangerous.