You can look at WinRM to roll up events in a Windows environment with W2K8 servers acting as collectors, then feed this into any SIEM, such as splunk.
-Chris -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Champ Clark III Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 10:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Looking for some event and security log monitoring software -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7/10/12 9:38 PM, anthony kasza wrote: > The time between polling is configurable. I too prefer agents as it > takes the resource burden away from a single machine and provides real > time log collection. Installing agents isn't always the best solution, > however. I've been told that Splunk agents (known as Universal > Forwarders) have a minimal resource footprint but I have never used > one. Well, I can see pretty much everyone is in agreement :) All of the event -> syslog forwarding software i've used have been pretty light weight. Even the Evt2sys (open source) version we've used takes almost no resources. They all seem to be fairly configurable about "tuning" out "noise" (crap). I too dislike polling for the same reasons you listed. I've also _seen_ an attacker modify logs before they where "shipped" (pushed in this case) to a centralized system. However, that was Linux boxes and a poorly thought out centralized logging architecture (not real time, using log offsets.. bleh! ... complete horror story).... Hence the reason I was wonder about WMI. I was thinking that there might be some "trick" I wasn't aware of. I'll take real time logging... Thanks again for the responses. - -- - - Champ Clark III ([email protected]) Quadrant Information Security (http://quadrantsec.com) Key Fingerprint: 2E56 C2EB 1B25 C517 D5BA 2DCF 5E70 B2F8 0381 878A GPG Key ID: 0381878A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJP/OM/AAoJENnmXt7Lmc3KRpgH/06I8mlqVe0jmcn7AUjr1mO2 8BE/D7WVn50Y5TBwcYrBomAgWdFMbWhnykuO5w7Yvq791BdEGG6C9DeWAmRdVkHz 7dJfqbbe8QYgf4C/2sh5zGEo6e97vLrMzXc6tlwex40qlk2Bb9WiED1+URl/JAAq 3tzb0ISqXbU5PkcUPRm4OwBRXUohQ8u//ht61u6THDzQBv2t8UnvxC7ddYdNWPoN wBQp4KYSCarjkVdviBjDF1EW7B6qlAjoAFYUeDjRhixDXGMbN7aeup8GiLjG9lfN aONTO8ua0gjiOxmwFaNW09TyZzUwu5wwv+gRRm2Nb9kwrjAk552uMrhNE3GWGho= =pHnZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This electronic mail message contains information that (a) is or may be CONFIDENTIAL, PROPRIETARY IN NATURE, OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED BY LAW FROM DISCLOSURE, and (b) is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named herein. If you are not an intended recipient, please send an email immediately to [email protected] and take the steps necessary to delete the message completely from your computer system. _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
