Security information and event management (SIEM) logging tools collect, analyze, and correlate data from various sources across an organization’s IT infrastructure to provide real-time insights into potential security threats. SIEM tools let businesses detect irregular activities, identify vulnerabilities, and respond swiftly to security incidents across cloud-based solutions and remotely configured systems.
Cloud services often span multiple regions and rely on various third-party services, increasing the complexity of managing security. Effective logging practices record and monitor all activities meticulously, including user actions, system changes, and data access events. This granular visibility is essential for maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements, conducting forensic investigations, and maintaining the overall integrity of a business’s cloud environment.
Logging is crucial for remotely configured systems as it provides critical insights into the performance and security of these distributed components. Remote endpoints often operate in diverse environments, making them susceptible to various security challenges such as unauthorized access, malware, and configuration drift. Comprehensive logging lets organizations monitor the behavior of remote endpoints, detect deviations from expected patterns, and implement corrective measures promptly.
Released on 19 June 2024, Snare Windows Agent v5.8.1 includes several new capabilities and enhancements that ensure all Windows event log data is collected and forwarded to a business’s centralized SIEM system for security monitoring and analysis.
Snare Windows Agent v5.8.1 updates
Third-party security improvements:
Third-party security improvements:
- Third-party libraries upgraded.
- OpenSSL upgraded to version 3.1.5
New features and enhancements:
- The Agent displays the relevant error message in the Web UI when the Agent is running with permissions insufficient for collecting audit logs.
- Preventative code maintenance.
Bug fixes improve the Snare Windows Agent experience:
- Fixed handling of remotely configured SNARE v2 and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) formats. Following a configuration update from Snare Agent Manager (SAM), these formats are now applied to outgoing events correctly.
- Log audit, file integrity monitoring (FIM), and registry integrity monitoring (RIM) policies can be removed completely via remote configuration managed by SAM.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when sending a Microsoft Windows Common Audit Policy (CAP) 12 event in Snare v2 or JSON formats.
- Fixed handling of duplicate data fields in Windows Events sent in Snare v2 or JSON formats.
- Fixed Agents that were stuck attempting to process invalid event data.
- Improved validation of ‘Event ID Match’ input in Audit Policy.
- Removed misleading invalid ‘Error’ logged after reading the last Advanced Audit policy.
- Fixed license field names that only displayed parentheses in the Installer ‘Select a License’ page.
- Fixed spelling mistakes in labels on the Advanced Audit and file activity monitoring (FAM) policy configuration pages.
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