LSASS Auditing

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๐—–๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—Ÿ๐—ฆ๐—”๐—ฆ๐—ฆ ๐—”๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—”๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ช๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐—”๐—ฑ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—”๐˜‚๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด

LSASS is one of the most targeted processes in Windows โ€” if attackers can read it, they can often dump credentials.
In this short guide, I show you how to set upย advanced auditingย onย lsass.exeย so you get alerted when someone tries to access it.

๐Ÿ”ย ๐—ฌ๐—ผ๐˜‚โ€™๐—น๐—น ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ป ๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐˜๐—ผ:
โ–ช๏ธ Enable the right Advanced Auditing policies
โ–ช๏ธ Set SACLs directly onย lsass.exe
โ–ช๏ธ Test it with Mimikatz
โ–ช๏ธ Spot Event ID 4663 in your logs

Perfect for detecting suspicious credential access in real-time โ€” whether in a lab or production.

PDF guide: Advanced Auditing – LSASS

โฌ‡๏ธย ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ธ ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐—บ๐˜† ๐—ด๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜€:
https://academy.horizon-secured.com/p/windows-infrastructure-security-guides