Administering Splunk Enterprise Security (ASES)

Kursinhalt

Module 1 - Introduction to Enterprise Security

• Explain the function of a SIEM
• Give an overview of Splunk’s Enterprise Security (ES)
• Describe detections and findings
• Configure ES roles and permissions
• Give an overview of ES navigation

Module 2 - Customizing the Analyst Queue and findings

• Give an overview of the Analyst Queue
• Create and use Analyst Queue Views
• Customize the Analyst Queue
• Modify Urgency
• Create new Status values
• Add fields to Finding attributes
• Create ad hoc Findings
• Suppress Findings

Module 3 - Working with Investigations

• Give an overview of an investigation
• Use and create Response Plans
• Add Splunk events to an investigation
• Use Playbooks and Actions

Module 4 - Asset & Identity Management

• Review the Asset and Identity Management interface
• Describe Asset and Identity KV Store collections
• Configure and add asset and identity lookups to the interface
• Configure settings and fields for asset and identity lookups
• Explain the asset and identity merge process
• Describe the process for retrieving LDAP data for an asset or identity lookup

Module 5 - Data Normalization

• Understand how ES uses accelerated data models
• Verify data is correctly configured for use in ES
• Validate normalization configurations
• Install additional add-ons
• Ingest custom data in ES
• Create an add-on for a custom sourcetype
• Describe add-on troubleshooting

Module 6 - Detection Engineering

• Give an overview of how to create Event-based detections
• Review the Detection Editor
• Give an overview of how to create Finding-based detections

Module 7 - Risk-Based Alerting

• Give an overview of Risk-Based Alerting (RBA)
• Explain risk scores and how they can be changed by detections or manually
• Review the Risk analysis dashboard
• Understand Finding-based detections
• Describe annotations
• View risk information in Analyst Queue findings

Module 8 - Managing Threat Intelligence

• Understand and configure threat intelligence
• Use the Threat Intelligence interface to configure threat lists
• Configure new threat lists

Module 9 - Post-Deployment Configuration

• Give an overview of general ES install requirements
• Explain the different add-ons and where they are installed
• Provide ES pre-installation requirements
• Describe the Splunk_TA_ForIndexers app and where it is installed
• Set general configuration options
• Configure local and cloud domain information
• Work with the Incident Review KV Store
• Customize navigation
• Configure Key Indicator searches

Voraussetzungen

To be successful, students must have completed the following Splunk Education course:

• Using Splunk Enterprise Security (USES)

Students should also be familiar with the topics covered in the following courses:

• Intro to Splunk
• Using Fields (SUF)
• Visualizations
• Search Under the Hood
• Intro to Knowledge Objects
• Creating Knowledge Objects (CKO)
• Creating Field Extractions (CFE)
• Enriching Data with Lookups (EDL)
• Data Models (SDM)
• Introduction to Dashboards (ITD)
• Splunk Enterprise System Administration (SESA) AND Splunk Enterprise Data Administration (SEDA) OR Splunk Cloud Administration (SCA)

Zielgruppe

• SOC Analyst
• SOC Engineer