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ITJesusBB
Jan 05, 2022Copper Contributor
Is there any way to create a custom detection to detect when a service is stopped?
I have a service that I'd like to create an alert for if it is stopped, but I can't find any related events to the service stopping in MDE, and as far as I can tell, service status isn't recorded in ...
ITJesusBB
Mar 03, 2022Copper Contributor
I ended up talking to MS about this, and the answer is you can't. They said MDE only monitors processes related to Windows.
Kyrouz
Mar 03, 2022Copper Contributor
Thanks for the update! If anyone at MS is reading: I appreciate that you can't have MDE collect absolutely everything, but service stoppage would be immensely useful in terms of identifying when a critical service is stopped no matter how the attacker got it.