Setup and Securing Winlogbeat

Winlogbeat is a lightweight open-source Windows agent that uses the Windows API to ship different event logs to Logstash or Elasticsearch. I have been a Splunk user for quite some time, but I have started to also leverage the Elastic Stack at work and in my home lab. This post is for my reference and anyone trying to configure … Read more

Deploying Splunk Universal Forwarders via GPO

When you want to get security event data from your Windows endpoints, there exists a myriad of ways to achieve that objective. Here I am going to outline how to deploy the Splunk Universal Forwarder (UF) using a Group Policy Object (GPO). From there, you can configure the agents using a deployment server to ship the logs … Read more

Mounting NFS Shares in Windows Using Identity Mapping

Before we begin let us enable Services for NFS and both Sub Features. The typical way you will see an NFS share mounted in Windows involves mounting the remote file system using the anonymous (anon) user: mount -o anon \\192.168.28.155\mnt\NAS0\media G: This will give you read only access based on the configured permissions of the … Read more