Windows Defender

Scanner supports Windows Defender logs, which contain information related to security events, malware detections, and system scans. In order for Scanner to receive Windows Defender log events, you need to configure a worfklow to push these logs to an S3 bucket that Scanner is linked to.

Step 1: Publish to S3

Use the Winlogbeat agent to write Windows Defender log events as JSON to local files. You will need to set the event_logs.name configuration parameter to read from the Windows Defender channel, which is Microsoft-Windows-Windows Defender/Operational.

See the Winlogbeat documentation for more information:

• Winlogbeat configuration - event_logs.name
• Configure the File output

Then use the Fluentd agent to read the Windows Defender logs from the local files and write them to your S3 bucket. Make sure to configure the output format to be JSON. See the following Fluentd documentation articles:

• Fluentd tail input module
• Fluentd s3 output module

Step 2: Ingest via Scanner Collect

Follow the Create an Index Rule guide to ingest logs from S3 via Scanner Collect.