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Another good report

Anthony Reinke — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:54:34 +0000

This will help to track down failed logins. This could be due to someone changing their password and still are logged in to a server with the old account information. The other side is that someone could be trying to brute force an account.

Type=”Failure Audit” sourcetype=”WinEventLog:Security” | chart count by User_Name | sort – count

Daily Splunk Reports

Anthony Reinke — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:45:14 +0000

So I am a full convert and profit of Splunk now. I have been using it at work for around 4 months now. I have rolled it out to our domain controllers and have started rolling it to all our Windows and *nix servers. The ability to find out who did what has made my job so much easier. There was an incident where an OU was deleted in our AD. I was able to see exactly who and when did it. Normally this type of searching wasn’t possible or at least hard to get due to the size of our infrastructure. Our Event Logs roll over around once an hour. The OU was deleted 8 hours before we were contacted.

Here is a few of the reports I have scheduled to get every morning to take a look at what has happened in my environment.

User Accounts deleted:

User Accounts created:

Computer Accounts deleted:

Computer Accounts created:

Least Privilege Security Model

Anthony Reinke — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:58:06 +0000

I am finding in my daily work that everyone talks about and wants the least privilege security model until want access to something. We can redesign a network share and say that only groups are allowed and that we are not to allow user access to directly to have access and within a month of going live there is a handful of user accounts listed. What I also find funny is how people react when you ask why? Why do you need this access? You would think I am asking them to justify why they exist. My goal is to be able to document and justify why I have granted access to something (share, server, etc.) and they get offended. Using the model of least privilege help to protect everyone and the company.