Sysmon Configuration and Tuning

What Sysmon Configuration and Tuning teaches: turn Windows endpoints into a detection sensor by building a tuned Sysmon config, deploying it across a fleet, feeding it to a SIEM, mapping its events to Sigma and ATT&CK, validating coverage, and operating it day to day. The discipline, the toolchain, the config you build, and how the course is structured. Start here.

What Sysmon records, event by event, before you decide what to log. The gap in native Windows logging, the driver-service-log architecture and the ProcessGuid that ties events together, and every event class an investigator relies on: process creation, credential access and injection, network and DNS, file and registry, image and driver loads, pipes and WMI.

How a Sysmon config actually controls what gets logged. The file structure and the compiled registry copy, the include and exclude filtering model and its two idioms, the condition operators and their exact matching, rule groups and compound conditions, the precedence rule that decides every conflict, the field reference, and building a working config from scratch.

Where a config meets a real environment. The community baselines and how to read one as a peer, the economics of noise, a repeatable measure-first tuning method, the over-exclusion trap that silently deletes detections, taming the loudest events, and tuning a config to each host role. The module that earns the course its name.

Getting a tuned config off your bench and into a working detection capability. At-scale deployment, the native Windows Sysmon feature, feeding a SIEM, mapping events to Sigma and ATT&CK, validating coverage with atomic tests, operating the sensor's health, and a capstone that runs the whole arc end to end. The module that turns a good config into a capability you can prove.

The event IDs, the config schema, the operators that behave unexpectedly, and the exclusions that quietly remove your coverage.

Ordered procedures for the work: first deployment, tuning a noisy estate, adding coverage, and updating a config safely.

Four cases reasoned end to end, including the ones where the config was valid and collecting the wrong thing.

One Windows machine, a config you write yourself, and the checks that make the practice real.

Every Sysmon command, event type, condition operator, config idiom, and operational pattern from the course in one place, organized by stage: install and reconfigure, the event catalog, filtering, measurement, deployment, collection, detection, validation, and health. The working kit you carry out of the course.

Microsoft and Sysinternals documentation, the community Sysmon baselines, the Sigma detection toolchain, Atomic Red Team, and MITRE ATT&CK: the external sources used throughout the Sysmon Configuration and Tuning course, with stable top-level locations.

Sysmon Configuration and Tuning end-of-course exam: a config review where the volume figures are accurate and all three submitted edits are wrong, testing whether you can read what an exclusion actually removes and find the change that silently inverts collection.