What can you monitor?

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You can monitor files, directories, registry keys, users, and programs.

Element

Tracked operations

File

  • File creation

  • File change (file content and attributes, such as permissions, owner, or group)

  • File deletion

  • File rename

  • Alternate Data Stream creation

  • Alternate Data Stream change (content and attributes, such as permissions or owner)

  • Alternate Data Stream deletion

  • Alternate Data Stream rename

Process

  • Process start

  • Process stop

Registry key

  • Registry key creation

  • Registry key change

  • Registry key deletion

User account

  • User account creation

  • User account change

  • User account deletion

  • User logon (success and failure)

  • User logoff

Note

User account tracking is disabled by default. You must enable this feature to track operations for user accounts. To enable this feature, execute the SC: Run Commands client task to run the sadmin features enable mon-uat command on the endpoint.

Note

Change Control includes predefined monitoring rules.

Order of precedence for monitoring rules

This is the order of precedence applied (highest to lowest) when processing monitoring rules.

  1. Advanced exclusion filters (AEF) rules

  2. Exclude rules

  3. Rules based on user name

  4. Rules based on program name

  5. Rules based on file extension

  6. Rules based on file names or paths