I have Splunk setup with the universal forwarder installed on all of my Windows machines sending the event logs to Splunk. Collecting all of the event logs with Splunk is working great. Now I was ...

This publication defines a baseline for event logging best practices to mitigate cyber threats. It was developed by the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) ...

I'm writing a Windows app in unmanaged C++ and want to log some simple events to the Application log. I'm normally a *nix guy and am used to being able to just call syslog() (or asl(3) on Mac OS X). I ...

These logs often contain traces left behind by ransomware attacks that could reveal the entry points used by the attackers and their "digital identity." Here are some examples of ransomware traces ...

SIEM and SOAR allow enterprises to collect and correlate log event data but may not be the ideal choice for every organization. Microsoft’s Windows Event Forwarding aggregates system event logs from ...

In Event Viewer, the errors logged are common, and you will come across different errors with different Event IDs. The events that are recorded in the security logs usually will be either of the ...