These tools are used to prevent data leaks to competitors and malicious agents. With security breaches reaching worldwide news on an almost monthly basis, FIM or file integrity monitoring tools have become crucial for businesses to run securely. The easiest way I found to do this was using a tool called nssm, which I found in Brandon Olin's post.The Best File Integrity Monitoring Tools for your Windows Shares!įebruary 23rd, 2023 by Jeff Davies in Guides, Monitoring Since we can use pswatch continuously, it makes it a great candidate for a Windows service that runs in the background at all times. includeDeleted Running pswatch as a service C:\> Get-Help watch -Parameter * | Select-String -Pattern '-' All default to true except for deleted files, which is false. These include location, subdirectories, changed files, renamed files, created files, and deleted files. Here is an example of code that would do just that: C:\> watch c:\examplefolder -includeDeleted | foreach Ĭhange made on c:\examplefolder\test\Newfile.txtĪs you can see, the output is a string "Change made on" and the path to the created, modified, renamed, or deleted file.Ī look into PowerShell help shows us the possible parameters for watch. To use the pswatch module, we use the command watch and follow this with a path to the folder we want to monitor. One simple example of using the module is monitoring a folder for changes and then emailing a user when a change occurs. PS C:\Users\dan\Documents> Import-Module pswatch Monitoring a folder and sending email alerts Use "Import-Module pswatch" and then "watch" We can use this via Invoke-Expression: PS C:\Users\dan\Documents> iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString("")) The module unfortunately is not available in the PowerShell Gallery, but the creator's GitHub page does provide an installation PowerShell script that will create the module on a local machine. Obviously, there are numerous use cases for this. A great feature of this module is that it continuously monitors directories, and since it writes the paths of files that change to the output, users can use a foreach loop in PowerShell and continuously perform logic on these objects.
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