sysmon-modular
A repository of sysmon configuration modules (by olafhartong)
sysmon-config
Sysmon configuration file template with default high-quality event tracing (by SwiftOnSecurity)
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sysmon-modular
Posts with mentions or reviews of sysmon-modular.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-29.
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Sysmon 15.0 is out now with advanced features
I was specifically using the https://github.com/olafhartong/sysmon-modular config, but once we started seeing systems crash I tried building extremely minimal configs and still found them causing hangs.
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Splunk & Sysmon as SIEM
I use this one: https://github.com/olafhartong/sysmon-modular
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Looking for inputs and validation for this network setup.
2) There are many opensource solutions, and you hit on all the important ones. Think creativitly, and test all your controls. hit your boxes with Metaspoilt and atomic redteam. These tools will help you verify that you have the proper controls in place, and that you are able to detect attacks (successful, and failed). Run auditd with Florian Roth's rule set on your linux boxes (https://github.com/Neo23x0/auditd/blob/master/audit.rules ), and sysmon (https://github.com/olafhartong/sysmon-modular) on windows.
- Researching SIEM
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Is Windows Defender for Business any good?
Agree. Harden your endpoints (if unsure where to start consider hardening kitty, https://github.com/scipag/HardeningKitty) and harden Defender (https://0ut3r.space/2022/03/06/windows-defender/). Add Sysmon with a good config (https://github.com/olafhartong/sysmon-modular) and you've reached a good starting point.
- New blue team
- Microsoft recommend Sysmon and EDR
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Security Cadence: Sysmon (Logging Part 2 out of ?????)
Another really excellent resource (also called out by Swift) is Olaf Hartong’s Sysmon-Modular project: https://github.com/olafhartong/sysmon-modular As well as having a few full configs, Olaf’s project has modular XML configurations for each supported Sysmon Event ID. This can be incredibly helpful for fine tuning your configs.
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splunk sysmon events
Yes absolutely. This is a very common workflow for both. One note is that you need to also find a sysmon config to use as well, and there's no easy way to manage either sysmon or its config through Splunk. Recommendations for a config are either SwiftOnSecurity's or Olaf's SysmonModular. They significantly overlap and work with each other on patches. SwiftOnSecurity's is a better pure drop-in, and Olaf's is better if you want to do customization.
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Best monitoring software that works like event logs?
For some of the items you mentioned having a good sysmon config would help too. https://github.com/SwiftOnSecurity/sysmon-config or https://github.com/olafhartong/sysmon-modular are good starting points
sysmon-config
Posts with mentions or reviews of sysmon-config.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
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Troubleshooting Intermittent Slowness on Network Share
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/networking/networking-overview plenty of windows troubleshooting tips here too, and this is pretty good symon script saves to event viewer even after a reboot! , also care with wireshark as it may give you a false sense of there's a fault, try tcpIPview from sysinternals and yeah procmon for sure. https://github.com/SwiftOnSecurity/sysmon-config use psping to ping the server directly and see the latency goes up and down, you can ping it more often every 1 second so you get a better more detailed resul.
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Sysmon not reading our config.xml-file
Rebooted and downloaded sysmon 14.16 and sysmonconfig-export.xml
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Cheap, Fast, Good and Simple Remote Monitoring for Small Environments
There's all sorts of things you can do for various types of monitoring including Zabbix, Graylog, roll-your-own with Sysmon (see https://github.com/SwiftOnSecurity/sysmon-config), etc. The question becomes one of time - don't get so focused on DIY or free that you spend hours (or pay someone to spend hours) a month babysitting.
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How do you actually threat hunt?
If you don't catch it what changes can you do to your logging to enable it? Can you push it out to the environment? While sysmon is awesome, you can do your hunts with built in logging most of the time... Just might not have all the data around it you want to have. I would throw sysmon on a test box (make sure you have a config file that filters out the noise: https://github.com/SwiftOnSecurity/sysmon-config)
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How do I exclude specific event IDs in Sysmon?
I played around with https://github.com/SwiftOnSecurity/sysmon-config Maybe there xml can point you in the right direction
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Finding the Process initiating a ping
and here's an off the shelf config file: https://github.com/SwiftOnSecurity/sysmon-config
- How to filter SysMon Logs for suspicious events
- SysMon Deployment Help
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MISP integration issues
- Make sure you have sysmon installed on the agent host and it is logging event to the Sysmon folder as ID 22. Can use this xml file
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Network Share - Word and excel files take 35 seconds to open/save, all other file types open immediately.
Out of our 286 Windows Servers, this single server did not like our sysmon config file from SwitfOnSecurity - https://github.com/SwiftOnSecurity/sysmon-config/blob/master/sysmonconfig-export.xml
What are some alternatives?
When comparing sysmon-modular and sysmon-config you can also consider the following projects:
atomic-red-team - Small and highly portable detection tests based on MITRE's ATT&CK.
sigma - Main Sigma Rule Repository
DetectionLabELK - DetectionLabELK is a fork from DetectionLab with ELK stack instead of Splunk.
ThreatHunting - Tools for hunting for threats.
auditd - Best Practice Auditd Configuration
ansible-role-elasticsearch - Ansible Role - Elasticsearch
SysmonForLinux
SysmonTools - Utilities for Sysmon
Windows-Toolkit - PS one-liner cmdlets for Windows security
vscode-sysmon - Visual Studio Code Microsoft Sysinternal Sysmon configuration file extension.
sysmon-modular vs atomic-red-team
sysmon-config vs sigma
sysmon-modular vs DetectionLabELK
sysmon-config vs ThreatHunting
sysmon-modular vs auditd
sysmon-config vs ansible-role-elasticsearch
sysmon-modular vs SysmonForLinux
sysmon-config vs SysmonTools
sysmon-modular vs Windows-Toolkit
sysmon-config vs vscode-sysmon
sysmon-modular vs vscode-sysmon
sysmon-config vs SysmonForLinux