Re: Windows event auditing and reporting

[PCSC Information Services <info () pcsage biz>]

Microsoft Windows NT (NT4,2000,XP,2003) based products all can use  
System Monitor, it's built in and provides a facility to set up trace  
logs
and alerts based on specific items, ie. registry changes etc. It's  
highly configurable and worthy of thorough investigation.

I hope that this helps keep the costs lower it's also in keeping with  
the less is more paradigm for computer security.

Sincerely,

Sean Swayze
PCSC Information Services

On 3-Apr-06, at 2:31 PM, rs wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a good tool that will alert and report on  
> Windows Event logs, especially DC logs for events such as New user  
> accounts, changed user accounts, deleted user accounts, locked user  
> accounts, failed login attempts, expired passwords, dormant  
> accounts, etc. We have looked at both S.E.L.M from GFI (Reporting  
> wasn't great) and Active Administrator from ScriptLogic (Reporting  
> was great but event criteria was not customizable and it offers a  
> ton of nice features that we don't necessarily need but would be  
> paying for.) . Just wanted to see if there was anything else out  
> there that someone could recommend?
>
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