Exercise 1 – Using Wazuh to add Sysmon logging

As a first exercise for this chapter, we are going to add Sysmon logs to the Security Onion data, by installing the Sysmon driver on endpoints and having Wazuh forward to Security Onion the logs it creates for us.

The following passage is taken from the Sysinternals site (who created Sysmon—see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon):

"System Monitor (Sysmon) is a Windows system service and device driver that, once installed on a system, remains resident across system reboots to monitor and log system activity to the Windows event log. It provides detailed information about process creations, network connections, and changes to file creation time. By collecting the events it generates using Windows Event Collection or SIEM agents and subsequently analyzing them, you can identify malicious or anomalous activity and understand how intruders and malware operate on your network."

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