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Windows auditing is a very useful tool used for tracking events. Knowing when and where a particular event occurred and who triggered them can help when doing Windows network forensics. It can also be very helpful with detecting certain types of problems like improper rights assignments in the file system. This is why it is essential to have a good windows auditing tool to keep track of events and any problems that might be occurring.

The open source auditing tool I chose is called Open-AudIT. Open-AudIT's goal is to tell you exactly what is on your network, how it is configured, and when it changes. This tool can also work on both Windows and Linux systems. With Open-AudIT Windows PCs can be queried for hardware, software, operating system settings, security settings, IIS settings, services, user and groups. The tool can also be configured to scan your network or devices automatically depending on how often it is set up to scan. The tool is also still being actively developed with a new version being released on August 18th, 2022 and a wiki page set up for all the documentation on the tool needed to get it running and many more guides to help you set up specific features.

Windows auditing is a very important process to keep track of events that have occurred on a network or device. This is why I recommend an open source tool called Open-AudIT to audit your Windows systems or Linux systems. It is a great auditing tool with proper documentation on it and recent releases keeping it up to date and adding new features.