Course Content
The course covers ES event processing and normalization, deployment requirements, technology add-ons, dashboard dependencies, data models, managing risk, and customizing threat intelligence.
Please note that this class may run over three days, with 4.5 hour sessions each day, to achieve the full nine hours of course content.
Who should attend
This 13.5-hour course prepares architects and systems administrators to install and configure Splunk Enterprise Security (ES).
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Prerequisites
To be successful, students should have a solid understanding of the following courses:
- Using Splunk Enterprise Security (USES)
- What is Splunk? (WIS)
- Intro to Splunk (ITS)
- Using Fields (SUF)
- Intro to Knowledge Objects (IKO)
- Creating Knowledge Objects (CKO)
- Creating Field Extractions (CFE)
- Enriching Data with Lookups (EDL)
- Data Models (SDM)
- Splunk Enterprise System Administration (SESA)
- Splunk Enterprise Data Administration (SEDA)
Course Objectives
- Provide an overview of Splunk Enterprise Security (ES)
- Customize ES dashboards
- Examine the ES Risk framework and Risk-based Alerting (RBA)
- Customize the Investigation Workbench
- Understand initial ES installation and configuration
- Manage data intake and normalization for ES
- Create and tune correlation searches
- Configure ES lookups
- Configure Assets & Identities and Threat Intelligence
Outline: Administering Splunk Enterprise Security (ASES)
Module 1 – Introduction to ES
- Review how ES functions
- Understand how ES uses data models
- Describe correlation searches, adaptive response actions, and notable events
- Configure ES roles and permissions
Module 2 – Security Monitoring
- Customize the Security Posture and Incident Review dashboards
- Create ad hoc notable events
- Create notable event suppressions
Module 3 – Risk-Based Alerting
- Give an overview of Risk-Based Alerting (RBA)
- Explain risk scores and how they can be changed
- Review the Risk Analysis dashboard
- Describe annotations
- View Risk Notables and risk information
Module 4 – Incident Investigation
- Review the Investigations dashboard
- Customize the Investigation Workbench
- Manage investigations
Module 5 – Installation
- Give an overview of general ES install requirements
- Explain the different add-ons and where they are installed
- Provide ES pre-installation requirements
- Identify steps for downloading and installing ES
Module 6 – General Configuration
- Set general configuration options
- Configure local and cloud domain information
- Work with the Incident Review KV Store
- Customize navigation
- Configure Key Indicator searches
Module 7 – Validating ES Data
- Verify data is correctly configured for use in ES
- Validate normalization configurations
- Install additional add-ons
Module 8 – Custom Add-ons
- Ingest custom data in ES
- Create an add-on for a custom sourcetype
- Describe add-on troubleshooting
Module 9 – Tuning Correlation Searches
- Describe correlation search operation
- Customize correlation searches
- Describe numeric vs. conceptual thresholds
Module 10 – Creating Correlation Searches
- Create a custom correlation search
- Manage adaptive responses
- Export/import content
Module 11 – 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 12 – Managing Threat Intelligence
- Understand and configure threat intelligence
- Use the Threat Intelligence Management interface
- Configure new threat lists
Module 13 – Supplemental Apps
- Review apps to enhance the capabilities of ES including, Mission
- Control, SOAR, UBA, Cloud-based Streaming Analytics, PCI
- Compliance, Fraud Analytics, and Lookup File Editor