Security & Auditing

Forensic analysis refers to the process of collecting documents and evidence from a system or drive that was involved in cybercrime. For detecting a malware infection on a Windows computer, the process of forensic analysis has four different components. Let’s try to understand the components.

It starts with obtaining an image of the drive contents or data for computer forensics, mounting it on a forensic image processing software, identifying potential blind spots for analysis, and then analyzing the malware as its whole. So, these are the four components in forensic analysis.

One of the most crucial aspects of network monitoring is security monitoring. Security breaches are more common now than ever before. The whole integrity of your network is at stake if even one node gets attacked. 

This is why it’s vital that businesses rely on a central network security software that continuously monitors the effectiveness of the security measures in place.

Having network security tools is just a small part of the bigger picture. You should look out for the following 10 things to ensure that the solution you have can protect you from cyber-attacks from all fronts. 

Log monitoring can be a tedious process. When you have logs, you generate numerous log files in the log database that you need to track. Though a log file parser can help you search through multiple or large logs easily, it’s typically one of those processes which we only look at once it stops working. 

The windows system logs contain operating system logs as well as logs from applications such as Internet Information Services (IIS) and SQL server. These windows system event logs use structured format, which makes them easy for search from their event log location and faster to analyze. Let’s look at some important aspects of log monitoring.