A company’s security team suspects an unauthorized application was launched on a workstation. They have limited data from central monitoring systems. Which method would uncover exact processes that ran, messages about user actions, and unexpected errors related to the event?
Checking external intelligence postings on suspicious actors
Reliance on scanning results from an outside service
Examining local event data for recent process activity
Local event logs provide detailed visibility into process launches, user actions, and error messages on the workstation. These logs are essential for identifying unauthorized software execution. Network-based data or external intelligence may provide broader context but lacks the precision and depth found in host-based logging.
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