Security

Too Many False Positives, Slow and Manual Investigations

IT infrastructures are increasingly difficult to defend against sophisticated attackers and malicious insiders. Security teams have to deal with an overwhelming number of false alarms and attacks that are increasingly difficult to detect. And responding to attacks remains a highly manual, slow and tedious process: dozens of consoles for the many silos of network devices and systems; even SIEMs that lack the critical information needed for incident investigations. All while the clock is ticking.

Do your incident investigations take too long— prolonging your company’s exposure to risk – because you need to search through different consoles? Do your current systems provide all the data you need to investigate and assess incidents—such as network security devices, custom application logs and database events? Are attacks going undetected, or detected long after the fact, because existing monitoring systems can’t track all security-relevant data? Are you unable to see if you’ve been impacted by zero-day attacks? Are you able to automatically monitor for known risk patterns – not merely brute force network-based attacks, but also data leakage and even application-level fraud?

Broad Visibility and Rapid Analysis Deliver Situational Awareness

With Splunk, users can now index, search and analyze all their IT data from a single location in real time, troubleshooting applications, investigating security incidents, and meeting compliance requirements, in minutes instead of hours or days.

The hundreds of customers using Splunk for security typically report cutting incident investigation time by 50 to 90%, meaning not only are they lowering incident response cost, but also dramatically lowering risk as attack windows are shortened. Customers also use Splunk to monitor and detect attacks, and dramatically reduce the window of exposure by reacting in seconds or minutes.

Splunk uniquely provides the ability to do rapid incident investigations, and unlike traditional security tools, all the data you need is available in a single location in real time. Collect, index, search and store not just logs, but all the data from any IT system, security device, physical security logs, and more. Manage whatever timeframe you need for historical assessments. And provide security situational awareness with comprehensive alerting, monitoring and reporting.

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Splunk Benefits

  • Investigate security incidents in record time by searching and analyzing all your security-relevant data from one place.
  • Improve your security posture by quickly filtering out false positives and visualize security information for situational awareness.
  • Splunk reports keep management informed of your organizations security status, incident investigations, and more.
  • Enable 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.
  • Reduce integrity and maintenance cost with the flexibility to index and search all the data without custom parsers or connectors.
  • Provide your security team with a solution that integrates with your existing infrastructure – complementing SIEM installations – and expand your security monitoring coverage to include complex, organization specific threat such as online fraud and insider threat.
  • Dramatically reduce risk by having the ability to monitor for any and all risk patterns, and investigate and remediate all incidents faster.
  • Achieve better security by providing your security team with a solution that makes them more productive and better at identifying and responding to attacks.
  • Avoid loss of intellectual property and costly public disclosures by detecting and resolving security threats before they become costly and embarrassing situations.
  • Ensure business continuity by identifying specific attacks and respond before attackers succeed in creating system outages such as from denial of service attacks.
  • Maintain security with limited budget by enabling security teams to be more cost-effective in monitoring responding to attacks, and conducting thorough investigations.

Solution Areas

IT Security Next Steps

Security Using Splunk

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.