Leveraging Federated Search for Amazon S3 for key security use cases
Security and operations teams are constantly challenged to effectively analyze vast amounts of historical data stored in Amazon S3. Traditional methods often involve costly and time-consuming data ingestion, creating bottlenecks in critical investigations and analysis.
This article explores the benefits of Splunk Federated Search for Amazon S3 (FS-S3), showing how you can use Splunk Cloud Platform to query historical and large-volume data stored in Amazon S3 without the cost and complexity of ingesting the data. With Federated Search for Amazon S3, you can search data in your S3 buckets from Splunk Cloud Platform, supporting ad-hoc security investigations, reporting, and alerting through scheduled searches.
Top 5 use cases
Click through to see each use case in detail:
- Accelerating security forensics: Investigate failed logins, anomalies, and attack timelines directly from S3.
- Correlating data for threat insights: Combine Splunk-ingested data with S3-based datasets for deeper threat insights.
- Streamlining threat reporting, dashboarding, and alerting: Automate threat reporting, visualization through dashboards, and alerting from historical S3 data.
- Performing data exploration and statistical analysis: Perform long-term trend and anomaly analysis over multi-year datasets.
- Simplifying compliance trails and audits: Instantly generate audit-ready reports from S3 without rehydration or data movement.
You can see each of these use cases in action in the click-through Demo: Federated Search for Amazon S3 use cases.
Next steps
Splunk Federated Search for Amazon S3 (FS-S3) demonstrates a transformative approach to unlocking security insights from vast historical data stored in S3 without any data movement. By enabling direct querying of this data without the need for costly and time-consuming ingestion, FS-S3 empowers security and operations teams to access critical insights faster and more efficiently. Whether you need to perform rapid security forensics, enriched threat intelligence, proactive monitoring, deep statistical analysis, or streamlined compliance audits, the benefits are clear. You'll see reduced operational overhead, significant cost savings, and enhanced visibility across your entire data landscape, all without moving data.
To get started, sign up for the Federated Search for Amazon S3 free trial.
In addition, these resources might help you understand and implement this guidance:
- Splunk Help: Federated Search for S3
- Splunk Lantern Article: Using Federated Search for Amazon S3 for monitoring and detection
- Splunk Lantern Article: Partitioning data in S3 for the best FS-S3 experience
- Splunk Lantern Article: Using Federated Search for Amazon S3 with Edge Processor
- Splunk Lantern Article: Using Federated Search for Amazon S3 with ingest actions
- Splunk Resource: Demo: Self-paced Onboarding for Federated Search for Amazon S3