The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Security Service (CSS) published the document "Spotting the Adversary with Windows Event Log Monitoring" which, in section 4, lists a number of events which are recommended to be collected by a log / SIEM monitoring solution.
We have made a downloadable EventSentry package file available for download which includes all events listed in section 4 (with the exception of events targeting Windows XP, those have been omitted).
The event log rules contained in the downloadable package is based on the document published on 2/28/2013.
To import the package follow these steps: