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Table of Contents
- The Costliest Bottleneck in SecOps: 'Parser Maintenance Hell'
- 1. Why Legacy Standards (CEF, LEEF, ECS) Fell Short
- 2. Dissecting OCSF's 4-Layer Architecture
- ① Data Types, Attributes & Reusable Objects
- ② Categories & Event Classes (Numeric UID Optimization)
- ③ Profiles (Composable Overlays)
- 3. Real-World Normalization: Raw Vendor Logs vs. OCSF JSON
- Before: Heterogeneous Raw Logs
- 1. Linux OpenSSH Syslog
- 2. Enterprise Cloud IdP JSON Log
- After: Normalized OCSF Authentication (class_uid: 3002) Event
- 💡 Key Engineering Details in the OCSF Payload
- 4. Threat Hunting with SQL on an OCSF Security Data Lake
- 5. Practical Implementation Checklist for SecOps Teams
- Conclusion: Reclaiming Telemetry Sovereignty
- References & Resources
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