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France, night of 11 October 2026: supermarket refrigeration controllers were reportedly made to run their own defrost cycle, and cabinets reached 50°C. The question, in large type: Is a defrost command a security event? Two empty tick boxes offer the answers: process event, operational log only; or security event, tell the SIEM now.

Is a defrost command a security event?

12th October 202612th October 2026SolidSyslogLeave a comment

Several hundred French supermarkets had their refrigeration forced to defrost overnight. Would your controller have reported that command as a security event, and who would have heard about it?

SolidSyslog 0.2.0: one TLS contract, whichever stack you run

29th September 202629th September 2026SolidSyslogLeave a comment

Mbed TLS or OpenSSL, the audit channel now behaves the same way, to one written contract. Collector pinning without a PKI, certificate renewal without a gap, and three new platforms.

Plant syslog: the second to fifth of five failed authentication attempts for the svc_export account from 198.51.100.77, the account then locking out for 900 seconds after five consecutive failures, and the nightly regulatory export aborting with none of its 214 records delivered.

SolidSyslog 0.1.0: CRA audit logging you can retrofit

19th August 202619th September 2026SolidSyslogLeave a comment

If a product is still on the EU market after 11 December 2027, it needs a security audit trail. SolidSyslog is the fast way to add one - free to evaluate.