---
id: 8140
title: "Windows Events, Sysmon and Elk…oh my! (Part 2)"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/red-teaming/windows-events-sysmon-elk-part-2/"
published_at: "2018-03-12T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["windows", "blue-team", "logging", "wef", "sysmon", "elk", "winlogbeat"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8140"
lang: en
---

# Windows Events, Sysmon and Elk…oh my! (Part 2)

## Summary

Walks through building a Windows Event Forwarding collector, deploying Sysmon and WEF subscriptions via GPO, and piping forwarded events into ELK with Winlogbeat for centralized monitoring.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2018-03-12T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/red-teaming/windows-events-sysmon-elk-part-2/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8140