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<blockquote data-quote="Stopspying" data-source="post: 877805" data-attributes="member: 69368"><p>"S<em>ystem Monitor</em> (<em>Sysmon</em>) is a Windows system service and device driver that, once installed on a system, remains resident across system reboots to monitor and log system activity to the Windows event log. It provides detailed information about process creations, network connections, and changes to file creation time. By collecting the events it generates using <a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/desktop/bb427443(v=vs.85).aspx" target="_blank">Windows Event Collection</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/security_information_and_event_management" target="_blank">SIEM</a> agents and subsequently analyzing them, you can identify malicious or anomalous activity and understand how intruders and malware operate on your network.</p><p>Note that <em>Sysmon</em> does not provide analysis of the events it generates, nor does it attempt to protect or hide itself from attackers."</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon[/URL]</p><p></p><p>What interests me most about this version of Sysmon is as described in a Ghacks article -</p><p></p><p><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon" target="_blank">"Sysmon 11.0</a> adds a new event to the list of monitored activity on Windows devices. Event 23, FileDelete, monitors all file removal activity on the Windows machine; this gives administrators options to see all files that were deleted on a system while Sysmon was active.</p><p>One of the reasons for adding file delete monitoring came from Microsoft's own experience. The company noted that attackers who successfully got into company machines would drop tools on the machine, use these, and delete these when they were done. The new file delete monitoring provides analysts with information about the tools that the attacker used on the system. Naturally, file deletion activity covers other types of deletions as well when it is used."</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ghacks.net/2020/04/29/sysmon-11-0-is-out-with-file-delete-monitoring/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Has anyone here used it yet to check how well it manages this task?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stopspying, post: 877805, member: 69368"] "S[I]ystem Monitor[/I] ([I]Sysmon[/I]) is a Windows system service and device driver that, once installed on a system, remains resident across system reboots to monitor and log system activity to the Windows event log. It provides detailed information about process creations, network connections, and changes to file creation time. By collecting the events it generates using [URL='https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/desktop/bb427443(v=vs.85).aspx']Windows Event Collection[/URL] or [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/security_information_and_event_management']SIEM[/URL] agents and subsequently analyzing them, you can identify malicious or anomalous activity and understand how intruders and malware operate on your network. Note that [I]Sysmon[/I] does not provide analysis of the events it generates, nor does it attempt to protect or hide itself from attackers." [URL unfurl="true"]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon[/URL] What interests me most about this version of Sysmon is as described in a Ghacks article - [URL='https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon']"Sysmon 11.0[/URL] adds a new event to the list of monitored activity on Windows devices. Event 23, FileDelete, monitors all file removal activity on the Windows machine; this gives administrators options to see all files that were deleted on a system while Sysmon was active. One of the reasons for adding file delete monitoring came from Microsoft's own experience. The company noted that attackers who successfully got into company machines would drop tools on the machine, use these, and delete these when they were done. The new file delete monitoring provides analysts with information about the tools that the attacker used on the system. Naturally, file deletion activity covers other types of deletions as well when it is used." [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ghacks.net/2020/04/29/sysmon-11-0-is-out-with-file-delete-monitoring/[/URL] Has anyone here used it yet to check how well it manages this task? [/QUOTE]
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