TryHackMe | Windows Event Logs

Per Wikipedia, "Event logs record events taking place in the execution of a system to provide an audit trail that can be used to understand the activity of the system and to diagnose problems. They are essential to understand the activities of complex systems, particularly in applications with little user interaction (such as server applications)." This definition would apply to system administrators, IT technicians, desktop engineers, etc. If the endpoint is experiencing an issue, the event logs can be queried to see clues about what led to the problem. The operating system, by default, writes messages to these logs. As defenders (blue teamers), there is another use case for event logs. "Combining log file entries from multiple sources can also be useful. This approach, in combination with statistical analysis, may yield correlations between seemingly unrelated events on different servers." This is where SIEMs (Security information and event management) such as Splunk and Elastic come

Per Wikipedia, "Event logs record events taking place in the execution of a system to provide an audit trail that can be used to understand the activity of the system and to diagnose problems. They are essential to understand the activities of complex systems, particularly in applications with little user interaction (such as server applications)." This definition would apply to system administrators, IT technicians, desktop engineers, etc. If the endpoint is experiencing an issue, the event logs can be queried to see clues about what led to the problem. The operating system, by default, write