Policy Change Event: 4709

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Account Management » Event ID 4709 - IPsec Services was started

Event ID 4709 - IPsec Services was started

Event ID 624
Category Policy change
Sub category Filtering Platform Policy Change
Description IPsec Services was started

When Internet Protocol security (IPsec) services is started, event ID 4709 is logged.

This log data gives the following information:

Policy Source

Why event ID 4709 needs to be monitored?

  • Prevention of privilege abuse
  • Detection of potential malicious activity
  • Operational purposes like getting information on user activity like user attendance, peak logon times, etc.
  • Compliance mandates

Pro tip:

ADAudit Plus helps you avoid the GPOs monitoring complexities with real-time pre-configured reports and auditing of the changes along with alerts within a Domain & OU. The advanced Group Policy settings real-time audit reports emphasize on the elusive change details and give a detailed report on the modifications along with the old and new values of the attributes.

Event 4709 applies to the following operating systems: 

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1
  • Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10
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