Monitoring local Windows users - Pt. 2 - Tracking deleted user accounts

Intro So now that have means to track creation of the new user accounts on our endpoints we are going to create use case tracking deletion of the local user accounts. This use case is quite similar to the tracking...

Outlook macro to automate classification labels in mail subject

Intro If you are anything like me, you would want to automate your work as much as possible. The average worker spends on average 11 hours a week when dealing with emails, imagine how much of this time is dedicated...

Monitoring local Windows users - Pt. 1 - Tracking new user accounts

Intro This blog post kicks out the series of use cases that can be used to monitor user management on Windows platform. Most of the blue teamers know that unexpected changes in local users and their privileges serve as a...

Catching successful RDP connections with ArcSight ESM

Intro Hi, in this post we will try to deal with the basic monitoring of successfully established RDP connections to your endpoints. I will use ArcSight, however, general ideas are applicable to other SIEM out there. Events that matter When...

Operational monitoring of WEF Log sources in ArcSight

Intro We know that monitoring user endpoints is a big deal and sort of problematic. I think most would agree that the easiest and cheapest way right now to monitor Windows endpoints is via Windows Event Forwarding or (WEF) ....