Security and Reliability - microsoft/MSO-Scripts GitHub Wiki

MSO-Scripts Goals for Security and Reliability

  • Present some straightforward ideas for how to use ETW to analyze & track security and reliability issues.
  • Expose some of the existing AutoLogger (etc.) sessions, and how to analyze them (not always WPA).
  • Show how to create a custom AutoLogger session in filemode with a maximum/circular file, and how to analyze it.
  • Show how to track the activity of specific processes without filling the disk with ETW traces.

Key ETW Providers

  • Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing   reference

  • Microsoft-Windows-Eventlog

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Commentary

Reference (MS)

Outline

  • Key ETW Providers for Reliability and Security

  • How to Create Your Own Automatic Data Logger (without straining system resources)

  • How to Examine the Data (even after a system hang or crash)

  • Built-in, Automatic Data Loggers

    • How to determine what data they log
    • How to view the data they log
      • Flush the log
      • Merge the log
      • What data is needed by WPA
      • Alternatives to WPA
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