As a PC user, diagnosing performance issues, blue screens, and weird behavior comes with the territory. Windows is often the culprit behind many of these problems, but it also has a built-in ...

If you are looking for good free software to view, manage and analyze your Windows Event Logs, you may want to check out these three – Event Log Manager, Event Log Explorer and Lepide Event Log ...

In Event Viewer, the errors logged are common, and you will come across different errors with different Event IDs. The events that are recorded in the security logs usually will be either of the ...

Does someone have a very, very simple sample of how to go about creating a new Event Log along with writing events to the new log? I can do it in VB.NET fairly easily, but don't know C++ well enough.

Coaches love to talk about “the basics” – the fundamental skills their athletes need to master before they can move on to more advanced techniques. The basics can seem simple and even dull, but ...

An excellent PowerShell script is easy to troubleshoot when something goes wrong. When developing scripts, it's important to not just consider "working" a symbol of success but also that you have ...

This publication defines a baseline for event logging best practices to mitigate cyber threats. It was developed by the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) ...

SIEM and SOAR allow enterprises to collect and correlate log event data but may not be the ideal choice for every organization. Microsoft’s Windows Event Forwarding aggregates system event logs from ...

I have heard from both commercial and government customers, “You cannot manage what you cannot see,” and this rings true. Visibility is the core requirement of situational awareness. Do you need a ...