When Microsoft rolls an update for Windows 11/10, the upgrade process creates tons of log files in every step. These log files are useful for analysis if there is any Upgrade problem. While it may not ...

Incident responders and blue teams have a new tool called Chainsaw that speeds up searching through Windows event log records to identify threats. The tool is designed to assist in the first-response ...

Last week I looked at some creative uses of log analysis for detecting malware, and ways to acquire Windows physical memory for analysis. What I've seen time and time again is where those in charge of ...

As the IT market grows, organizations are deploying more security solutions to guard against the ever-widening threat landscape. All those devices are known to generate copious amounts of audit ...

Log data analysis involves reviewing logs generated from different sources to gain insight into the activities of assets in an IT infrastructure. It helps organizations detect and remediate security ...

The Performance Analysis of Logs or PAL tool is a free offering from Microsoft’s CodePlex site. PAL reads performance counter logs, analyzes them and reports on the thresholds using HTML based reports ...

Windows File Analyzer will help you decode & analyze the Thumbnail Database, Prefetch folder, Shortcuts, Index.DAT, and Recycle Bin for forensic analysis. We took it for a spin and can say that it is ...

Anyone who has been assigned the task of gleaning usable information from log data understands the complexity of the process. Simply put, log data analysis means collecting, organizing, and arranging ...