Every log must fire: applying Chekhov's gun to cybersecurity incident reports
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The post does use cyber industry terminology inconsistently though, noted in another comment, and I fear that's going to make every technologist exit the page before getting the point.
Logs, alerts, and indicators are all different things with completely different barriers to existence. Stop fucking up the language by purposefully confounding them.
No, the entire reason logs exist is because you want to save things that do not trigger some action by themselves, or maybe even rarely be used for something.