Lepide Event Log Manager (LELM) has an edge over the traditional and native Windows Event Viewer because of its next-gen features. Being a centralized solution, it allows you to manage the event logs of multiple computers in the same or different domains at a common platform. At scheduled intervals, LELM will collect the logs of added computers automatically in two ways - with an agent and without an agent. The former allows the better parsing of the events, but it will install an agent program on the target computer, whereas the latter doesn’t need any further installation. All the logs are stored permanently for long-term usage in a proprietary database. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how to monitor the event logs using Lepide Event Log Manager. Setting up the Database The software at the very first time will show the following screen asking you to setup the database for storing the event logs. Figure: Welcome Screen You’re required to enter the values like SQL Server Name, Database Name, Authentication mode, and the login credentials. After providing the necessary inputs, click on the button “Test Database Connection” to test the database connectivity. If it is successful, then click “Save Settings” button to save the database settings. Adding the Computers Click “Manage Groups” tab on the top and this will display the following window. Figure: Manage Group Tab In Lepide Event Log Manager, you can create a group and add the computers into it. You can provide the common login credentials and same event capturing rules for all the computers in a group. If you’ll not create any group or don’t add a computer to a group, then the added computers will be added to a default group named “Default”. In the Left Side Panel of “Mana... ... middle of paper ... ...ated scheduled jobs will be displayed in the “Scheduled Reports” tab. Alerts Lepide Event Log Manager sends real-time alerts via email to the Administrators and other recipients on detecting the user-defined critical events. Switch to the “Alerts” tab. In the left side “Alerts List” section, do a right click on the top item “All Alerts” and select “Create New Alert” to display the wizard. Follow the onscreen instructions of this wizard to create an alert. Conclusion Lepide Event Log Manager comes forward as one-stop solution to audit the events being generated on multiple computers in the same or different domain(s). It has the capability to arrange and record the events in a centralized format to give the precise information. Its components like Event Browser, Predefined Reports, and Alerts come handy for an auditor to conduct a thorough event audit of the system.
My company monitors the CPU utilization of the customers Firewall System on a 7 x 24 basis. My company provides daily usage reports for the customers firewall system. Managed firewall provides customer category-defined URL blocking. My company maintains backup of the customers firewall system configuration and regularly stores such backups at a remote location.
The Data XML contains the data that needs to be added/updated to/deleted from the Database.
There are some challenges when it comes to implementing groupware in a business firm. Social organization is one of the problem that arise when it comes to human interaction and calendar systems. When companies, like Isuzu Australia Limited (IAL), want to do conference meetings about their products from a global standpoint; collaboration is supported by sharing or viewing other people’s calendar. This may seem like a simple task for business firms to complete successfully, but issues will occur if individuals in the organization make mistake in their calendar information. According to (Palen, 1999), individuals’ calendar information is read-accessible to other users by default (an “Open” Model GCS). Others GCSs may reveal only blocks of free and busy times by default (a “Restricted” Model GCS), while still others may reveal no information to other users on...
The program will monitor the user input and will notify immediately of a wrong action (like a key stroke the is not valid for the particular input), will create an error file that contains the data set that contains the error to be analyzed and investigated, or the entire batch of data will be rejected, if the errors cannot be attributed to an specific record, for the user to locate issues and resubmit a corrected set.
By Tod Ferran,” Logs are only useful if they are regularly reviewed,” so only by reviewing the log can a pattern be seen (Ferran, n.d.). Monitoring the log the user can see a pattern forming in the data, so this pattern can help find any problems that may occur.
...Active Directory Manager (LADM) appears as a one-stop solution for managing the Active Directory. You can easily manage users, groups, and computers either individually or in bulk with a friendly GUI. Moreover, you can manage multiple domains’ Active Directory environments from its centralized platform and generate different kinds of audit report to satisfy the compliances. One more added advantage is that the trial version of Lepide Active Directory Manager is available free for complete one year for one domain.
Extracting and translating information in Registry is also very important in incident response. A lot of changes happen in the registry when users download or delete any sort of data. It also keeps date and time for any of those changes. There are a lot of tools which can help with that including RegRipper, Process Monitor, and WRR. These work just as well with machines with an older operating system to extract and understand registry keys and values or monitoring accesses to the Registry on a live system. The tool regslack.exe is very helpful to check if any of the registry keys and values were
In 1980, James Anderson’s paper, Computer Security Threat Monitoring and Surveillance, bore the notion of intrusion detection. Through government funding and serious corporate interest allowed for intrusion detection systems(IDS) to develope into their current state. So what exactly is IDS? An IDS is used to detect malicious network traffic and computer usage through attack signatures. The IDS watches for attacks not only from incoming internet traffic but also for attacks that originate in the system. When a potential attack is detected the IDS logs the information and sends an alert to the console. How the alert is detected and handled at is dependent on the type of IDS in place. Through this paper we will discuss the different types of IDS and how they detect and handle the alerts, the difference between a passive and a reactive system and some general IDS intrusion invasion techniques.
As the internet is becoming faster and faster, an operating system (OS) is needed to manage the data in computers. An Operating system can be considered to be a set of programed codes that are created to control hardware such as computers. In 1985 Windows was established as an operating system and a year earlier Mac OS was established, and they have dominated the market of the computer programs since that time. Although, many companies have provided other operating systems, most users still prefer Mac as the most secured system and windows as it provides more multiple functions. This essay will demonstrate the differences between windows
SQL Server provides a wizard for setting up database maintenance plans such as scheduling database and log backups. Both log and data files are created by SQL Server. Three main recovery models are covered in SQL Server. In a simple recovery, neither logging is done nor log recorded applied to the process. This method is mostly used for databases that never change. A full recovery includes the database changes into...
Due to their complexity and importance to information security, two security systems, Network Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (NIDPS) and Security Information and Event Management systems (SIEM), will be explored in this paper. Both have multiple functionalities, including threat-detecting capabilities, and are widely considered essential tools for adequate network defense, particularly in the goal of fortifying valuable assets in the face of an advanced threat. Understanding these systems is vital for any security operation tasked with defending significant networks.
When someone suspects that an unauthorized, unacceptable, or unlawful event has occurred involving an organization’s computer networks or data-processing equipment Computer security incidents are normally identified. Initially, the incident may be reported by an ultimate user, detected by a system administrator, identified by IDS alerts, or discovered
In the Orlando office we have three main databases. We have a Microsoft Access Database, a Visual Source Safe database, and a Microsoft SQL server database with a custom web client front end. The Microsoft Access database is fairly simple. We use this data base to keep track of the computer hardware and software configurations that are used when doing quality assurance testing and problem replication and troubleshooting of the software product. For any one product we can have up to twenty or thirty different configurations. Initially keeping track of the configurations along with the machine name and IP address was done on paper with a grid like matrix. After a short period of time, this became extremely time consuming and impractical. A simple database was set up in Access and then the database was shared to allow each user to be able to find out what configuration each computer was in for that day or that week so that the proper tests and or bug reporting could be conducted. The database allows the users to search by software version, platform type, operating system, machine name, IP address, memory size, and several other items that are not as significant. Before the database was created the engineer would have to leave their desk find the chart and to a cross reference using the matrix that was drawn up, and hopefully that matrix was kept up to date. Now as the technicians update or change the machine configurations they can enter that information immediately into the database and it will automatically provide a matrix view or a tabular view for any engineer who needs it.
Networks in organisation are dynamic and complex entities which can be quite challenging to configure and manage. (Kim & Feamster 2013). These corporate networks consist of multiple routers, switches, firewalls, middleboxes and a particular advantage of network management is the ability to monitor the entire business network. As all the devices are interconnected with many event occurring simultaneously, problems with once device can eventually lead and spread throughout...
The first thing that we must consider about Information Security is that there is not a final destination at which we can arrive. IT Security is an ongoing set of processes and activities that requires attention and expertise on a daily basis. It is important to understand that systems are not secured by themselves and it is our responsibility to maintain and improve them periodically as required. It is of vital importance to establish the appropriate mechanisms and requirements in order to support the company’s CIA triad. The following report will provide you guidance about auditing and hardening techniques applied though the 7 Domains by utilizing IT Security Best Practices.