Sending Logs to ELK with Winlogbeat and Sysmon

elastic.co At the end of one of my prior posts I had mentioned Beats Data Shippers; the "nitty-gritty" of how logs get from your desired endpoints to your shiny ELK stack. If you are uncertain how this works and also somehow ended up here, then you are about to learn! There are many different types … Continue reading Sending Logs to ELK with Winlogbeat and Sysmon

Auditing File & Folder Access on Windows with Local Security Policy

Working as a SOC Analyst for the summer, I've stumbled across a plethora of instances in which my coworkers and I would have benefited from a history of previous file and folder modifications. These instances vary per client, however mostly center around files and folders that are seen in our logs but are no longer … Continue reading Auditing File & Folder Access on Windows with Local Security Policy