Security and IT analysts need to be able to find threats and issues without having to write complex search queries. The Splunk Common Information Model (CIM) delivers a common lexicon of field names and event types across different vendor data sources making them consistent so that analysts can write clearer queries and get better results with more true positives and fewer false positives.
The Splunk Common Information Model (CIM) is a shared semantic model focused on extracting value from data. The CIM is implemented as an add-on that contains a collection of data models, documentation, and tools that support the consistent, normalized treatment of data for maximum efficiency at search time.