If you are looking for good free software to view, manage and analyze your Windows Event Logs, you may want to check out these three – Event Log Manager, Event Log Explorer and Lepide Event Log ...

I have heard from both commercial and government customers, “You cannot manage what you cannot see,” and this rings true. Visibility is the core requirement of situational awareness. Do you need a ...

As a PC user, diagnosing performance issues, blue screens, and weird behavior comes with the territory. Windows is often the culprit behind many of these problems, but it also has a built-in ...

Collecting too much log data overwhelms systems and staff. Centralized event log management lets you filter for the most significant security data. More companies are using their security logs to ...

LogRhythm will feel more comfortable to users with some database experience, but there's no debating the product's powerful capabilities. Being an unashamed geek, I was pleased to have the option to ...

Incident responders and blue teams have a new tool called Chainsaw that speeds up searching through Windows event log records to identify threats. The tool is designed to assist in the first-response ...

Security event monitoring systems are often plagued by signal-to-noise problems. Here's how to ensure they produce meaningful alerts One of the most interesting facts in the field of computer security ...

Security researchers have found a way to reverse the effects of an NSA hacking utility that deletes event logs from compromised machines. Last week, Fox-IT published a Python script that recovers ...

A Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) that fails to create a memory dump file and leaves no trace in the Event Viewer is a frustrating scenario when trying to troubleshoot the issue. This absence of evidence ...

In brief: The Windows event log and Event Viewer are supposed to help users diagnose security issues and other problems in PCs. However, Kaspersky researchers encountered one hacker who used the event ...