Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition

AD audit

The only way to identify potential security threats and security breaches in infrastructure is through continuous monitoring and auditing. When it comes to auditing, the Windows system itself provides advanced auditing capabilities to identify such security issues. However, by default, only certain types of actions are audited. These auditing settings are handled by Windows audit policies.

Here, we are only going to look at advanced security audit policies, which were first introduced with Windows Server 2008 R2.

There are 10 categories of events we can audit in a Windows system:

• System events
• Logon/logoff events
• Object access events
• Privilege use events
• Detailed tracking events
• Policy change events
• Account management events
• Directory ...