Splunk: Enables to secure your IT infrastructure

Splunk gives you the opportunity to investigate security incidents in record time by searching and analyzing all your security-relevant data from one place.

It helps security analysts to investigate incidents in minutes instead of hours or days by searching and analyzing all security relevant data from one place - catching attackers and malicious insiders who had previously gone undetected.

Splunk improves your security posture by quickly filtering out false positives and visualize security information for situational awareness.

The figure below indicates how Splunk enables you to secure your IT infrastructure.

1. Index all the data you need to monitor and investigate any type of threat - OS, IDS, firewall, network device, DNS, DHCP, remote access and AAA logs, proxy, web, custom application logs and more.


2. Security analysts and incident response teams will initially adopt Splunk to investigate IDS and SIEM alerts, investigate activity for flagged users and investigate access to sensitive data.


3. As they go, they'll enrich the raw data by tagging events they encounter as significant; normalizing heterogeneous data formats on-the-fly by extracting and naming fields, such as usernames, and identifying and naming events, such as successful logins.


4. Automatically monitor for known bad events, and use sophisticated correlation via search, to find known risk patterns such brute force attacks, data leakage and even application-level fraud.


5. Security managers will take advantage of Splunk's reporting to get a birds-eye view of security-relevant events such as firewall reporting, IDS rule violations and login activity. Use Splunk proactively to search for attack footprints in response to reports of new zero-day attacks, review trends in logins and other activity to uncover suspicious patterns and anomalies to find previously undetected attacks.