What is the role of Splunk Cloud?
To collect, search, and monitor log data in a cloud-hosted environment.
What does a network log record?
All computers and devices that enter and leave the network, as well as connections between devices and services on the network.
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Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud

What is the role of Splunk Cloud?

To collect, search, and monitor log data in a cloud-hosted environment.

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Common Log Sources

What does a network log record?

All computers and devices that enter and leave the network, as well as connections between devices and services on the network.

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Suricata

Who developed Suricata?

The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF).

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Common Log Sources

What is a firewall log?

A record of attempted or established connections for incoming traffic from the internet and outbound requests to the internet from within the network.

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SIEM Dashboards

What is the purpose of the Incident review dashboard in Splunk?

To identify suspicious patterns that can occur in the event of an incident, highlighting higher risk items that need immediate review by an analyst and providing a visual timeline of the events leading up to an incident.

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Suricata

What is Suricata?

An open-source network analysis and threat detection software.

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Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud

What is the role of Splunk Enterprise?

To retain, analyze, and search an organization's log data to provide security information and alerts in real-time.

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Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Dashboards

What information does the rule detections dashboard provide?

Statistics related to incidents with the highest occurrences, severities, and detections over time.

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SIEM Dashboards

What is the purpose of the Security posture dashboard in Splunk?

To display the last 24 hours of an organization’s notable security-related events and trends and allow security professionals to determine if security infrastructure and policies are performing as designed.

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SIEM Dashboards

What is the purpose of Google's Chronicle Enterprise insights dashboard?

To highlight recent alerts, identify suspicious domain names in logs (indicators of compromise), and provide a severity level that indicates the significance of each threat to the organization.

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SIEM Dashboards

What is the purpose of the Executive summary dashboard in Splunk?

To analyze and monitor the overall health of the organization over time, providing high-level insights to stakeholders and generating a summary of security incidents and trends over a specific period of time.

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Common Log Sources

What does a server log record?

Events related to services, such as websites, emails, or file shares, including actions like login, password, and username requests.

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Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Dashboards

What does the data ingestion and health dashboard display?

Number of event logs, log sources, and success rates of data being processed into Chronicle.

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SIEM Tools

What is the purpose of a SIEM tool?

To collect and analyze log data to monitor critical activities in an organization, offering real-time monitoring and tracking of security event logs.

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Common Log Sources

What is the definition of a log?

A record of events that occur within an organization’s systems.

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SIEM Dashboards

What is the purpose of the Risk analysis dashboard in Splunk?

To help analysts identify risk for each risk object (e.g., a specific user, a computer, or an IP address) and analyze the potential impact of vulnerabilities in critical assets to prioritize risk mitigation efforts.

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Suricata

What is the purpose of Suricata?

To inspect network traffic, identify suspicious behavior, and generate network data logs.

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SIEM Tools

What is the purpose of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools?

To collect, analyze, and correlate security data from various sources across IT infrastructure to identify and respond to security threats in real-time.

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Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Dashboards

How might a security analyst use the IOC matches dashboard?

To observe domain names, IP addresses, and device IOCs over time to identify trends and direct the security team’s focus to the highest priority threats.

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Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Dashboards

What are the dashboard options in SIEM tools used for?

To help cybersecurity team members manage and monitor organizational data.

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Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)

What is the purpose of Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)?

To use automation to respond to security events.

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Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Dashboards

What does the main dashboard display?

A high-level summary of information related to the organization’s data ingestion, alerting, and event activity over time.

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Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud

What is the role of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud?

To retain, analyze, and search an organization's log data to provide security information and alerts in real-time.

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