Enhancing ABC Inc Security Strategy with IDS and Centralized Syslog

I am a Security Analyst/Administrator for a medium sized company, ABC Inc I, along with a team of System Administrators, am tasked with the responsibility of protecting our customer's confidential information, maintaining the integrity of our applications and keeping our systems available. We have been employing many industry best practices that were subsequently discussed throughout my SANS GSEC course. These include OS patching, application hardening, network tuning, Anti-Virus and Vulnerability Assessment.