Using Splunk Enterprise Security (USES) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1 - Introduction to Enterprise Security

  • Describe the features and capabilities of Splunk Enterprise Security (ES)
  • Explain how ES helps security practitioners prevent, detect, and respond to threats
  • Describe correlation searches, data models and notable events
  • Describe user roles in ES
  • Log into Splunk Web and access Splunk for Enterprise Security

Module 2 - Security Monitoring and Incident Investigation

  • Use the Security Posture dashboard to monitor ES status
  • Use the Incident Review dashboard to investigate notable events
  • Take ownership of an incident and move it through the investigation workflow
  • Create notable events
  • Suppress notable events

Module 3 – Risk-Based Alerting

  • Give an overview of Risk-Based Alerting
  • View Risk Notables and risk information on the Incident Review dashboard
  • Explain risk scores and how to change an object's risk score
  • Review the Risk Analysis dashboard
  • Describe annotations
  • Describe the process for retrieving LDAP data for an asset or identity lookup

Module 4 – Assets & Identities

  • Give an overview of the ES Assets and Identities framework
  • Show examples where asset or identity data is missing from ES dashboards or notable events
  • View the Asset & Identity Management Interface
  • View the contents of an asset or identity lookup table

Module 5 – Investigations

  • Use investigations to manage incident response activity
  • Use the investigation workbench to manage, visualize and coordinate incident investigations
  • Add various items to investigations (notes, action history, collaborators, events, assets, identities, files and URLs)
  • Use investigation timelines, lists and summaries to document and review breach analysis and mitigation efforts

Module 6 – Security Domain Dashboards

  • Describe the ES security domains
  • Use the Security Domain dashboards to troubleshoot various security threats
  • Learn how to launch the Security Domain dashboards from Incidents Review and from a notable event Action menu

Module 7 – User Intelligence

  • Understand and use user activity analysis
  • Use investigators to analyze events related to an asset or identity
  • Use access anomalies to detect suspicious access patterns

Module 8 – Web Intelligence

  • Use the web intelligence dashboards to analyze your network environment
  • Filter and highlight events

Module 9 – Threat Intelligence

  • Give an overview of the Threat Intelligence framework and how threat intel is configured in ES
  • Use the Threat Activity dashboard to see which threat sources are interacting with your environment
  • Use the Threat Artifacts dashboard to examine the status of threat intelligence information in your environment

Module 10 – Protocol Intelligence

  • Explain how network data is input into Splunk events
  • Describe stream events
  • Give an overview of the Protocol Intelligence dashboards and how they can be used to analyze network data