Most security and IT tools tell you what they were set up to watch. Tracknosis shows what actually changed, read directly from the disk, so you can answer "what happened?" even when the logs can't.
The only technology that forensically tracks every file and registry change on the whole disk, continuously and proactively, across your Windows infrastructure.
SIEM, EDR and file integrity monitoring are valuable, and Tracknosis works alongside them. The difference is where the evidence comes from.
| SIEM / log management | EDR | File integrity monitoring | Tracknosis | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where the evidence comes from | Logs and events forwarded from systems | An agent watching processes and behaviour as they happen | The files and folders you choose to watch, checked through Windows | Every file and registry record, read directly from the disk |
| What it covers | Whatever was logged and forwarded | Activity on the endpoint while the agent is running | The paths on its watch list | The whole Windows volume, files and registry, scan after scan |
| If logs were cleared | A gap in the record | Depends on what its agent captured first | Unaffected for watched paths | Changes are still on the disk, and the clearing itself is flagged |
| Changes made while nothing was watching | Not seen | Not seen if the agent was stopped or bypassed | Seen at the next check, for watched paths | Seen at the next scan, anywhere on the volume |
| Faked timestamps | Rarely visible | Sometimes, from behaviour | Usually not checked | Flagged by comparing both NTFS timestamp sets |
| Needs rules or signatures? | Correlation rules | Signatures and behaviour models | A list of what to watch | No: every change is rated High, Medium or Low with a plain-language reason |
| Best at | Correlating events across many systems | Stopping attacks as they happen | Watching known critical files | Proving what changed on each machine, and when |
A general comparison of tool categories; individual products vary. More detail: file integrity monitoring for Windows, watched folders vs the whole disk.
See exactly what the attacker changed, whether it's still there, and whether they tried to hide it, even if the logs were wiped. Investigate a security incident →
See which files, drivers, services and settings changed before it broke, and fix the cause rather than the symptom. Find the root cause →
Evidence stamped with machine, operator and time, and report drafts for NIS2 and CIRCIA built from it. NIS2 & CIRCIA →
The same scans also give you software inventory, asset details, certificate checks and more. See what's also included →
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