About this Guide

About this Guide

This guide introduces you to the functionality of the version 5 agents for Snare Enterprise Agent for Windows. The development of Snare for Windows will allow event logs collected by the Windows operating system (including 2003, XP (last supported release v5.1), Vista, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, Windows7, Windows8, Windows8.1, Windows 10, Server 2012 and Server 2012 R2, Server 2016), to be forwarded to a remote audit event collection facility.  Snare for Windows will also allow a security administrator to fully remote control the application through a standard web browser if so desired.

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This document is for the purchased Snare Enterprise Agent for Windows only.  For Snare OpenSource please refer to the Version 4 documentation.


This product uses the RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm. This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)