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7.5. Monitoring and Logging
Data confidentiality and protection is an important aspect of security but it is equally important to ensure availability of services. As an administrator and security practitioner, you must ensure that everything works as expected, and it is your responsibility to detect anomalous behavior and service degradation in a timely manner. Monitoring and logging software plays a key role in this aspect of security, providing insight into what is happening on the system and the network.
In this section, we will review some tools that can be used to monitor several aspects of a Kali system.