DNS auditing is an integral part of any I.T. security program. Name resolutions can act as a great tip for discovering malware, command and control streams, or misbehaving employees. Acquiring DNS audit data can be difficult with some DNS servers (*cough* Windows *cough*); for this post we are going to show an extremely easy method of getting DNS audit data directly into Gravwell.

Gravwell Community Edition is perfect for monitoring your home network. With a generous 2GB/day ingest quota, you can capture netflow records, DNS requests, WiFi hotspot associations, and more. In this blog post, we’ll show how to ingest and analyze netflow records. We’ll assume you’ve already set up a Gravwell instance as described in the quickstart (https://dev.gravwell.io/docs/#!quickstart/community-edition.md); for this post, we’ll assume the Gravwell instance is at 192.168.1.52. Your instance will almost certainly be different, so be sure to substitute your own information.

In this post, we take a look at analyzing Industrial Control System data to detect unauthorized manipulation of relays in a process.

You never forget the first time… and we’ll always remember getting together with hundreds of leading security experts at the first ever Wild West Hacking Fest in Deadwood, South Dakota. We got a lot of praise before the first guest arrived at our table, but that’s probably because we sponsored the coffee! Still, when people came over to look at Gravwell’s products, we got a lot of positive feedback and eager experts wanting to test what we can do.