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In this series, we’ve covered some key areas that can help prepare for potential attacks. Preparation is essential. Security policies are essential. Understanding your network and its assets is essential. What happens if a threat is detected? What can we do to monitor for threats? This final blog will look at security…
By Paul Parker, SolarWinds Federal & National Government Chief Technologist Here is an interesting article from my colleague Joe Kim, in which he discusses the impact of artificial intelligence on cybersecurity. Agencies are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to bolster the United States’…
In the final blog of this series, we’ll look at ways to integrate Windows event logs with other telemetry sources to provide a complete picture of a network environment. The most common way of doing this is by forwarding event logs to a syslog server or SIEM tool. The benefits of telemetry consolidation are: * Scalability…
Over the last three posts, we’ve looked at Microsoft event logging use cases and identified a set of must-have event IDs. Now we’re ready to put our security policy in place. This blog will walk you through configuring event logging on client workstations, and creating a subscription on a central log collection device.…
Anyone who has looked at the number of event IDs assigned to Windows events has probably felt overwhelmed. In the last blog, we looked at some best practices events that are a great start to providing contextual data in the event of a security breach. For example, repeated login failures, attempted privilege escalations,…
Can you have too much of a good thing? Maybe not, but you can certainly have too much of the wrong thing. In my first blog, I introduced the idea that Microsoft event logging from workstations can be a simple first step to building a security policy that looks beyond the perimeter. The simplicity comes from the fact that…
In a recent post on the state of data security, I discussed how the nature of our privacy online and the security of our personal information is at serious risk and only getting worse. Now, instead of focusing on the problem, I’d like to focus on some helpful solutions we can implement at the individual, organizational,…
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