Forensic change monitoring for Windows Infrastructure

Tracknosis reads each Windows volume directly, compares it with earlier scans, and shows every file and registry change, rated for risk, with hash-verified evidence. It works alongside your SIEM, sending its findings to Splunk, with no rip-and-replace.

Architecture

Read the volume. Compare. Rate.

Your SIEM sees the events that were logged and forwarded. Tracknosis reads the file system and registry themselves, so it sees what actually changed, even where nothing was logged.

1 · Read the volume

  • NTFS master file table, read directly
  • Registry hives, down to the value
  • Hidden data streams, hard links, locked system files
  • Event log clearing and audit settings
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2 · Compare and rate

  • Adds, edits and deletes since earlier scans
  • High, Medium or Low, with a plain-language reason
  • Hash-verified evidence, stamped with machine and operator
  • Findings sent to Splunk; AI report drafts
The engine

Six capabilities, one platform

Splunk, Datadog and Elastic are excellent at collecting logs and alerts. They can't show what changed on a machine nobody told them to watch. Tracknosis can.

Forensic Observability

Every file and registry key on each Windows volume, compared scan to scan, producing defensible evidence rather than more alerts.

Root Cause & Delta Tracking

Identifies what changed before the incident occurred, turning a symptom into a diagnosis and helping stop it happening again.

Unknown Threat Detection

No signatures needed. Faked timestamps, cleared logs, switched-off auditing and risky new auto-starts show up as change, so new and unknown attacks are visible too.

24 · 72 · One-Month Reporting

Report drafts built from the evidence to support NIS2, CIRCIA, DORA and UK GDPR deadlines, so you start from facts, not a blank page.

AI Incident Summaries

AI drafts the incident summary from the changes Tracknosis found, with every finding traceable back to hash-verified evidence, for your team to review.

Chain of Custody

Read-only collection, hash-verified results stamped with machine and operator, and recovered files never written back to the volume under investigation.

How delta tracking works

Diagnose the change, not just the symptom

Detection tells you something is wrong now. Delta tracking tells you what changed before it went wrong, turning an alert into a root cause you can fix and prove.

Baseline

The first scan records every file and registry key on the volume. It already flags problems that are there now, such as faked timestamps and risky auto-start entries.

Track the delta

Each rescan is compared with the history, so you can pick any two points and see exactly what was added, edited or deleted between them, and when.

Rate the risk

Every change is rated High, Medium or Low using its location, file type, digital signature, download origin and timestamps. Routine noise can be hidden by rules; High-risk changes never are.

Preserve as evidence

Results are hash-verified and stamped with machine, volume, tool version, operator and time, building an audit trail you can stand behind.

Report and share

Send findings to Splunk, export the report, and generate an AI report draft from the evidence for NIS2, CIRCIA and other reporting rules.

Under the hood

Built on how NTFS and Windows really work

What it reads

  • The NTFS master file table directly, so files hidden from normal tools are still seen
  • Both independent NTFS timestamp sets, so backdated files stand out
  • Registry hives from the volume, compared by hash and decoded to the changed value
  • Download origin (Mark of the Web) for files that came from the internet

What it checks

  • Digital signatures on changed programs, including Windows catalog signing
  • Auto-start entries linked to the files they launch
  • Cleared event logs, disabled auditing and new USB storage devices
  • Deleted files, with recovery attempted from their recorded location
What it changes

From logs to defensible answers

Question after an incidentLogs & SIEM aloneWith Tracknosis
What changed?Only what was logged and forwardedEvery file and registry change between scans
Did they try to hide?Cleared logs can go unnoticedCleared logs, disabled auditing and faked timestamps flagged
Is it still there?Hard to tell from alertsNew auto-start entries linked to their files, signed or not
Can we prove it?Log exports of varying completenessRead-only, hash-verified evidence stamped with machine, operator and time
What must be reported?Written from scratch under pressureAI report draft built from the evidence, for your team to review
Also included

From the same scan, you also get

Tracknosis is built to answer one question with evidence: what changed? The same scans and the same agent also give you these, at no extra effort.

Software inventory

Installed software on each machine, read from the registry on disk, with versions and publishers, ready to export.

Asset details

Machine, operating system and hardware details, with your own asset tag and owner recorded alongside.

Intrusion detection findings

New and changed auto-starts, services and other persistence, cleared logs and switched-off auditing, summarised since the last scan. Detection findings, not prevention.

Certificate checks

Certificates that are expiring, self-signed or using weak cryptography, and newly trusted root certificates, from the live stores or the scanned registry.

Network ports

A live view of listening ports with the process behind each one, flagging risky ports and new listeners.

Performance

Live CPU, memory and disk gauges, with a trend recorded at each scan.

Deployment & requirements

Short deployment cycle, no rip-and-replace

Tracknosis is a lightweight agent: a Windows application you run on the machine you want to examine. There is nothing to install in the kernel and no logging pipeline to build.

How it deploys

  • A lightweight agent: a Windows application, run with administrator rights
  • No kernel driver, no auditing to enable, no folder lists to maintain
  • Scan history kept in a local database you control
  • OEM licensing available: engines embedded into partner products

Works with

  • Windows NTFS volumes (ReFS support planned)
  • Splunk, via the HTTP Event Collector
  • Datadog and Elastic: coming to the current release
  • Your existing SIEM workflows, alongside the logs you already collect

Requirements

  • Windows with .NET Framework 4.8
  • Administrator rights, which Windows requires to read a volume directly
  • NTFS volumes (ReFS support planned)
  • Disk space for the scan history: allow a few GB for a busy system volume with many scans

What to expect

  • The first scan builds the baseline and already flags faked timestamps and risky auto-starts
  • Later scans compare with the history and show only what changed
  • A faster registry-only scan is available for the system volume
  • Scan time depends on the number of files; large system volumes take longest on the first scan

Data and network

  • Results stay in a local database (SQLite) on the machine running Tracknosis
  • Scanning needs no network connection
  • Data leaves the machine only through integrations you switch on: Splunk or AI report drafts
  • Details on our Security & Privacy page

Getting started

Want the deep technical detail?

Download the Tracknosis technical whitepaper, or talk to our engineers about running Tracknosis on your Windows estate.

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