Event-o-Pedia EventID 4695 - Unprotection of auditable protected data was attempted.

	Event Details
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EventID 4695 - Unprotection of auditable protected data was attempted.

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Sample:

        Unprotection of auditable protected data was attempted.

        Subject:
        Security ID:		%1
        Account Name:		%2
        Account Domain:		%3
        Logon ID:		%4

        Protected Data:
        Data Description:	%6
        Key Identifier:	%5
        Protected Data Flags:	%7
        Protection Algorithms:	%8

        Status Information:
        Status Code:	%9

Log Type:

Windows Event Log

Uniquely Identified By:

Log Name:

Security

Filtering Field	Equals to Value
OSVersion	Windows Vista (2008) Windows 7 (2008 R2) Windows 8 (2012) Windows 8.1 (2012 R2) Windows 10 (2016)
Category	Detailed Tracking
Source	Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing
TaskCategory	DPAPI Activity
EventId	4695

Field Matching

Field	Description	Stored in	Sample Value
DateTime	Date/Time of event origination in GMT format.	DateTime	10.10.2000 19:00:00
Source	Name of an Application or System Service originating the event.	Source	Security
Type	Warning, Information, Error, Success, Failure, etc.	Type	Success
User	Domain\Account name of user/service/computer initiating event.	User	RESEARCH\Alebovsky
Computer	Name of server workstation where event was logged.	Computer	DC1
EventID	Numerical ID of event. Unique within one Event Source.	EventId	576
Description	The entire unparsed event message.	Description	Special privileges assigned to new logon.
Log Name	The name of the event log (e.g. Application, Security, System, etc.)	LogName	Security
Task Category	A name for a subclass of events within the same Event Source.	TaskCategory
Level	Warning, Information, Error, etc.	Level
Keywords	Audit Success, Audit Failure, Classic, Connection etc.	Keywords
Category	A name for an aggergative event class, corresponding to the similar ones present in Windows 2003 version.	Category	Account Logon
Object Name		-
Whom		-
Object Type		-
Class Name		-
Security ID		-
Account Name		-
Account Domain		-
Subject: Account Domain	Name of the domain that account initiating the action belongs to.	InsertionString3	LOGISTICS
Subject: Security ID	Security ID of the account that performed the action. Usually resolved to Domain\Name in home environment.	InsertionString1
Subject: Account Name	Name of the account that initiated the action	InsertionString2
Subject: Logon ID	A number uniquely identifying the logon session of the user initiating action. This number can be used to correlate all user actions within one logon session.	InsertionString4
Status Information: Status Code		InsertionString9
Protected Data: Data Description		InsertionString6
Protected Data: Key Identifier		InsertionString5
Protected Data: Protected Data Flags		InsertionString7
Protected Data: Protection Algorithms		InsertionString8