Using risk-based alerting and detection in Enterprise Security 8.0

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You are a security analyst or administrator using Splunk Enterprise Security 8.0 who wants to understand and implement risk-based alerting (RBA) more effectively.

Solution

This video shows you:

How RBA functions in Splunk Enterprise Security 8.0, including the functionality that has changed from versions 7.x and the functionality that has stayed the same.
Detail on the changes to terminology, such as renaming "notable events" to "findings" and "risk events" to "intermediate findings."
Updates to detection rules, including renaming "correlation searches" to "detections" or "detection rules."
The introduction of required fields for entity and risk score modifiers in findings and intermediate findings.
The continued use of existing risk incident rules, with optimizations for performance.
The addition of "finding-based detections," a preview feature offering an easier, SPL-free approach to manage and aggregate risk.

Next steps

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In addition, these resources might help you understand and implement this guidance:

Splunk Docs: About Splunk Enterprise Security
Product Tip: Installing and upgrading to Splunk Enterprise Security 8x
Product Tip: Using Enterprise Security 8.0 workflows
Product Tip: Enabling auto-refresh on the Analyst queue in Enterprise Security
Product Tip: Searching investigation artifacts with the Analyst queue in Enterprise Security 8.0
Splunk OnDemand Services: Use these credit-based services for direct access to Splunk technical consultants with a variety of technical services from a pre-defined catalog. Most customers have OnDemand Services per their license support plan. Engage the ODS team at ondemand@splunk.com if you would like assistance.