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 ...

If you do not want Windows 11/10 to collect additional diagnostic logs, here is how to limit that setting. This article helps you limit diagnostic log collection in Windows 11/10 with the help of the ...

Free unofficial patches are available for a new Windows zero-day flaw dubbed EventLogCrasher that lets attackers remotely crash the Event Log service on devices within the same Windows domain. This ...

I'm setting up Windows Event Collector server and I am having significant difficulty locating sizing guidance. I did find a few forum posts where CPU and RAM are discussed briefly, but not disk space.

Microsoft is having difficulty keeping development code out of the Windows event log after another message that users are advised to ignore turned up in the... event ...

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 ...

Event 4688 documents each program a computer executes, its identifying data, and the process that started it. Several event 4688s occur on your system when you log into a system. For example, Session ...

Japan's Computer Emergency Response Center (JPCERT/CC) has shared tips on detecting different ransomware gang's attacks based on entries in Windows Event Logs, providing timely detection of ongoing ...

Log management is one of those necessary tasks that every company should do, but that few companies do consistently well. Collecting and analyzing computer and device logs can pay off in many areas, ...

The log-on/log-off category of the Windows security log gives you the ability to monitor all attempts to access the local computer. In this article I’ll examine each log-on type in greater detail and ...

I’ve used many GFI products over the last 10 years, and in that time, I’ve found most of them to be user-friendly and a good value, though they tend to be aimed at small and midsize Microsoft Windows ...