One of our customers is trying to implement some fairly strict security protocols and one of the things they're asking about is a utility for monitoring and logging changes to files on disk. This is ...

There are many times when in troubleshooting your Mac, it is useful to see what files on the system are being modified. For instance, if you are having difficulty with some system preferences and know ...

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Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Firewalls are no longer sufficient; bad actors have demonstrated ...

Microsoft has released Sysmon 11, and it now comes with an important feature that allows you to monitor for and automatically archive deleted files on a monitored system. If you are not familiar with ...

Microsoft has released Sysmon 15, converting it into a protected process and adding the new ‘FileExecutableDetected’ option to log when executable files are created. For those not familiar with Sysmon ...

In the Linux environment, the file system acts as a backbone, orchestrating the systematic storage and retrieval of data. It is a hierarchical structure that outlines how data is organized, stored, ...