Hello, welcome to the Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 edition of the Sansonet Storm Center's Stormcast. My name is Johannes Ulrich.

And then I'm again recording from Jacksonville, Florida.

Today, Russ has a little walkthrough through a newer tool to allow you to analyze large logs.

SpectX.

SpectX is designed to essentially read in logs from diverse sources

and allow you to browse and connect those logs with each other to, for example, investigate

an incident.

A lot of this is similar to what you, for example,

could do with Elastic Surge and Kibana and similar tools, but seems like this tool is a little

bit easier to get started with, even though it's not entirely free, but instead, sort of it

has this freemium model, kind of like Splunk, where you get a limited amount

of functionality for free.

In this case, it's actually not the amount of data that's limited, but how many queries

you may ask via their SpecX API each day, and that's limited to 300 queries. This may in particular be interesting,

for example, for forensics investigation. I had some cases where, for example, the free

Splunk version didn't really work because you had to import quite a large number of logs

to cover a particular incident,

but with this tool, it's not the amount of logs that you import,

but the number of queries that you are actually going to request from the database.

Interesting tool and take a look at Russ's write-up about it. And last month, Autodesk

released an update for its FBX software development kit. Now, this is something that hasn't really

gotten a lot of press, Autodesk and Autocat, SolidWorks. This is fairly specialized software, so not a huge user base here,

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