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Carbon Black Cloud: The Auth Events Remote Device Name is the Name of the Local Device

Carbon Black Cloud: The Auth Events Remote Device Name is the Name of the Local Device

Environment

  • Carbon Black Cloud: All Supported Sensors
  • Microsoft Windows: Windows 10 and 11

Symptoms

The "Remote Device" value in the Auth Events being populated by the local computer name

Cause

The sensor is populating this from information provided by the OS Event ID 4624 which is displaying the incorrect value

Resolution

  • Per this article the "Workstation Name" should be populated by the machine name from which a logon attempt was performed
  • For an unknown reason Windows may populate this value with the local machine name instead
  • No known resolution at this time please reach out to Microsoft if additional information is needed

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