Use Cases for Security with the Splunk Platform
What’s your plan for cybersecurity? Are you simply “planning for the worst, but hoping for the best?” With digital technology touching every part of our lives and new threats popping up daily, it’s imperative that your organization is informed and prepared when it comes to defending your assets and hunting your adversaries.
High-profile breaches, global ransomware attacks, and the scourge of cryptomining are just a few reasons that your organization needs to collect, leverage, and understand the right data. You also need to implement the right processes and procedures, often alongside new technologies, methods and requirements - all with an ever-increasing velocity and variety of machine data.
So how can you best defend your organization and hunt down new adversaries? Ultimately, by taking a holistic approach to your defense system across the enterprise. This is why Splunk believes every organization needs a security nerve center, implemented by following the six-stage security journey described in the guide below.
Splunk offers the data-centric security solution required for foundational security monitoring, incident management, and compliance requirements, all of which enable teams to build modern security operations. With the Splunk platform, security teams can centralize and analyze their data, regardless of source or format, and gain end-to-end visibility of their environment, whether on-premises, hybrid, or multi-cloud. Security teams ready for a SIEM solution can easily add Splunk Enterprise Security to the Splunk platform environment to advance their detection and resolution capabilities. Splunk security solutions are supported by an open ecosystem of 2,800+ integrations and applications that help rapidly extract value from data sources teams already use. By using Splunk software, security teams can evolve and scale their security operations to support their security maturity journey.
This guide shows you how you can build a foundational security program using only the Splunk platform and Splunkbase apps, but if you want to learn how to use Splunk premium security software to better prepare for all manner of threats, attacks, compromises, and other adverse events, check out the Use Case Explorer for Security.