Applies To: CLOUD VPS DEDICATED  WINDOWS

The Windows Filtering Platform Connection success auditing creates a new security log entry each time the Intrusion Detection Agent makes a local connection. This in turn generates a Intrusion Detection alert. This results in an inordinate volume of logs local to the server and alerts on our Intrusion Detection host and as a result, we do not allow hosts with this option enabled to continue reporting to our host server.

Disabling this option can be done by opening a Command Prompt with Administrator privileges and running the below command.

auditpol /set /subcategory:"Filtering Platform Connection" /success:disable
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By default our Windows Server Images provided for our Cloud VPSs and Dedicated Servers come with this option already Disabled, this only needs applying if the option has been re-enabled for any reason.