Observing/logging a resource for purposes of: - Adding it to a blacklist of whitelist - Keeping tabs on the security of a system
Questions tagged [audit]
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Network-wide audit / discovery / asset tracking / license tracking
I'm interested in network wide audit info, and after some recommendations:
OS (mainly windows; ideally server and workstation)
apps (for license tracking)
etc
Happy to consider free and commercial (although free covered here) - or even outsourced…

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Exchange 2013 - no admin and mailbox audit logs
I recently installed on a new network Exchange 2013. I noticed that my admin audit logs and mailbox audit logs are empty. I did Search-AdminAuditLog and Search-MailboxAuditLog and it brought no results,even though it is enabled in each mailbox…

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Where does Solaris 10 keep a log of pfexec attempts?
I assigned a user the "User Security" profile so that they could reset user passwords and unlock accounts.
Does Solaris keep a record of whenever users execute pfexec?
I didn't see any records in /var/adm/messages. I didn't see anything in the audit…

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How to audit/log only denied Windows Firewall connections
Is it possible through Group policy (or other ways?), to force all my Windows Server and Client computers to turn on network connection audit logging, but only for denied network connections, without logging successful connections?
My current…

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howto logging attribute add/modify in openldap
I want to remain log in openldap for audit.
So i add olcAuditlogConfig. But olcAuditlogConfig remain the ldapadd,ldapmodify,ldapdelete... cmd.
we used phpldapadmin, not log remain.

Cholho Lee
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Advanced Policy Analysis
I am trying to find a way to analyze the Advanced Audit Policies. Something like the Security Configuration and Analysis tool. This tools works for the local policy, but doesn't work for the Advanced Audit Policies. I am on Server 2008. Is…

Tiffany
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Get actions/command history log?
Server Management website take control of the server. So for example I press save button which will then update the configuration on Linux Server. It logged onto server and then update a config file.
Example Auth Log:
Aug 13 20:07:19 ladev…

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Sending Red Hat audit logs to Windows Share
I am trying to figure out the best way to offload audit logs from a single Red Hat server to a windows share. What is the best way to do this without installing any additional software on the Windows Side? I am using Audisp as my logging…

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Centos Audit.log is full of no relevant information
My audit.log file is full of information that i font need (and want to disable)
A lot of log lines like:
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1467201475.671:36911834): arch=c000003e syscall=2 success=yes exit=49 a0=7f770ed9f318 a1=0 a2=0 a3=7f7712c00000 items=1…

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AD query to see what PCs a user has logged onto recently
Is there any way to run a query in AD to check what PCs a user has logged into recently.
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Mike
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Network maps, best admin practises and how them saved your ass?
I am reviewing the security of a (quite large) network.
There are a some thousands switches, several hundred routers, several hundred access points, tenths of FW, IPS, and so on. PCs and servers are on the bazillion side of the scale.
I have asked…

Iñigo García
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How can I process auditd logs on the fly using ausearch?
I want to ship off logs into centralized logging (ELK). Because of the way things are, I need to do the processing on the machine that creates the logs. How can I get each new auditd event to automatically be processed by ausearch and written to…

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Can't start auditctl in Ubuntu 14.04
When I'm trying to start auditctl in my terminal (vds container ubuntu 14.04) I have the message:
The audit system is disabled
in audit.log:
type=DAEMON_START msg=audit(1453274392.823:9236): auditd start, ver=2.3.2 format=raw kernel=2.6.32 auid=0…

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Missing Account audit events on DC's
I recently discovered that all of our Domain controllers (2008 R2, domain and forest fuctional level is 2008 R2) are no longer logging AD account logon events to the Security Log.
The Default Domain Controllers GPO:
Audit account logon events -…

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Audit Group Object Use?
Say you have a Security group. It's undocumented, nobody knows "what" it does, but everybody "knows" it is used for something.
If some application (SQL Server or some random web app) for instance, uses this AD group object as a reference for certain…

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