Log4Shell Logo

Published on 14th December 2021 Author: Rob Black

Log4Shell logo courtesy Fractional CISO, LLC

I have been surprised how the Log4Shell vulnerability has not made it in the mainstream press more. This is one of the most serious vulnerabilities I have seen in my career.

When I talk to my non-tech friends and family members, they haven’t heard of Log4Shell or Log4j.

One of the successes of the Heartbleed vulnerability response is that everyone understood they needed to do something.

The visual of the Heartbleed name and logo helped.

We can’t do anything about the Log4Shell name. It is not a good one. It does not have a real world comparable that can grab people’s imagination.

We can do something about the visual, however. We will likely need people to patch certain things.

If Log4Shell is a thing in their mind, then they will be more likely to act.

In that spirit, we are providing a Log4Shell logo. It is a takeoff of the Log4j logo. It hopefully communicates that Log4Shell is “bad”.

We are releasing this image under the Apache 2.0 open-source license: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Everyone is free to use it. We just ask that you give attribution to Fractional CISO and link to this page.

Something like, “Log4Shell logo is provided courtesy of Fractional CISO, LLC.”

Good luck and happy patching

For more information on the Log4j vulnerability check out this page: https://fractionalciso.com/serious-vulnerability-log4j/

Rob Black, CISSP

Rob founded Fractional CISO in 2017 and has helped dozens of companies improve their security posture as a vCISO. He consults, speaks, and writes on IoT and security. Rob has held product security and corporate security leadership positions at PTC ThingWorx, Axeda and RSA Security. He received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and holds two Bachelor of Science degrees from Washington University in St. Louis in Computer Science and System Science and Engineering. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).