Logging the Internet of Things - Connected power plants demand a new paradigm

The log is born to inform humans about the status of a specific system, just in case of a problem, as record of what happened. Some times – a good example: xen_netfront: xennet: skb rides the rocket: 21 slots – the message sounds like a joke*: is the human-human communication. In the wonderful world of SIEM (Security Information and Event Management), the plethora of messages generated by different (part of) systems was interpreted and correlated: processed or – better – pre-processed by machine for the end-human-user. In the era of the IoT [1] (Internet of Things), we will assist in a basic paradigm change: the message generated by a machine will be used by another machine, not by a human.