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Event ID 1: Process creation (Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational)

What this Event ID actually records on disk, the EventData fields worth reading first, and where it sits in a DFIR triage workflow.

Channel
Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational
Provider
Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon%4Operational
Triage notes
Command-line, hashes, parent process. The richest single record an analyst can get from Windows.

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