Detection Engineering

Top 10 Audit Logs for Threat Detection in Active Directory Active Directory (AD) doesn’t get “hacked” in a single step—attackers authenticate, escalate, move laterally, and persist. Your best early-warning system is a carefully chosen set of audit logs, collected consistently from the right hosts (especially domain controllers). On this page …

Using Audit Policies to Detect Threats Early (Active Directory) Active Directory Security • Detection Engineering • Windows Auditing Audit policies are your “early warning radar” for identity attacks—if you enable the right subcategories, collect the logs centrally, and convert high-signal events into actionable detections. …