ManageEngine Log360 now supports Windows workstations, providing robust log management and SIEM capabilities for comprehensive oversight into user activities, system health, and security events. By ingesting and analyzing logs from individual workstations, Log360 enables proactive monitoring, rapid threat detection, and streamlined compliance reporting across your Windows environment.
How Log360 ingests Windows workstation logs
Log360 uses agentless or agent-based mechanisms to collect Windows workstation logs, including security, system, application, and custom event logs, from local or remote machines.
Once ingested, logs are parsed, normalized, and analyzed in real time using powerful rule-based engines.
Monitoring capabilities
- User activity tracking: Monitor logins and logouts, failed attempts to log in, and privilege escalations.
- File and folder access auditing: Track access to sensitive files, modifications, and deletions.
- Security event detection: Identify suspicious activities like brute-force attacks, malware execution, and unauthorized software installations.
- Configuration change auditing: Track administrative changes to system settings and Group Policies.
- Custom alerts: Generate real-time alerts for specific error patterns or security incidents.
- System health insights: Detect hardware failures, service outages, and application crashes.
Critical Windows workstation events monitored
- Authentication failures and account lockouts
- User logons, logoffs, and session activity
- Privilege use and policy changes
- Object access (file, folder, registry access)
- System restarts and service status changes
- Software installation and uninstallation
- Security policy modifications
Key benefits
- Unified visibility: Correlate workstation logs with logs from servers, network devices, and other applications from a single console.
- Enhanced security intelligence: Detect and alert on anomalous behaviors or targeted attacks on workstations in real time.
- Faster troubleshooting: Quickly diagnose performance issues or user-related problems using granular search and contextual log timelines.
- Compliance readiness: Leverage built-in audit reports for major regulatory frameworks like the GDPR, HIPAA, and the PCI DSS.
Addressing Windows workstation monitoring challenges
| Challenges |
Solution offered by Log360 |
| Detecting unauthorized access |
Analyzes login attempts, failed access, and account lockouts |
| Tracking user activity |
Monitors logons, logoffs, and application usage |
| Identifying system errors |
Real-time alerting on application crashes and system failures |
| Meeting audit requirements |
Built-in audit reports for regulatory compliance |
| Monitoring configuration changes |
Tracks administrative changes to system settings and Group Policies |
Achieve Comprehensive Windows workstation log management with Log360
- Correlate across environments: Correlate Windows workstation log data with logs from servers, cloud applications, network devices, and more.
- Advanced threat detection: Identify suspicious patterns using threat intelligence feeds (e.g., STIX or ThreatFox) and behavioral analytics.
- Automated response: Use built-in ticketing or integrate with IT service management tools to assign incidents based on real-time alerts, facilitating swift remediation.
Uncover hidden threats, stop data exfiltration from removable media, and spot compromised accounts across your fleet. Transform raw data into effective security.
Empower your defense. Fortify your perimeter. Discover comprehensive Windows Workstation security with Log360.
