Well, there’s no such thing as absolute security, and it’s only a matter of time before you suffer from some sort of incident. But how do you know if you’ve been hacked?
Apart from obvious Ransomware attacks there may be little indication of someone up to no good on your network. It’s just for this reason that collecting and monitoring event logs is so important. But how do you go about this? Not only has the National Cyber Security Centre produced guidance on how to start this process, but they have also issued Logging Made Easy, a project you can use to deploy your own basic capability. So start monitoring now!