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Sysmon and Windows Event Forwarding workshop
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✔A highly-configurable service that writes system events to
the Windows Event Log
✔Part of the Sysinternals suite and under active
development
✔An excellent tool for Security, Support, and IT teams
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❌An alternative to antivirus
❌A log analysis tool
❌An alternative to Security/Support/ IT teams
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<RuleGroup name="" groupRelation="and">
</RuleGroup>
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<RuleGroup name="" groupRelation=“or">
<ProcessCreate onmatch="include">
…
</ProcessCreate>
</RuleGroup>
<RuleGroup name="" groupRelation=“or">
<ProcessCreate onmatch=“exclude">
…
</ProcessCreate>
</RuleGroup>
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is
is not
contains
excludes
begin with
end with
less than
more than
image
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<RuleGroup name="" groupRelation="or">
<FileCreateTime onmatch="exclude">
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<Image condition="end with">AppDataLocalProgramsMicrosoft VS CodeCode.exe</Image>
</FileCreateTime>
</RuleGroup>
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