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Mapping with Splunk
Tips & Tricks
3 Minute Read

Mapping with Splunk

This blog will cover a few tricks to spice up your reports and dashboards to see patterns, summarize data and drill down into interesting events.
Syslog-ng and HEC: Scalable Aggregated Data Collection in Splunk
Tips & Tricks
9 Minute Read

Syslog-ng and HEC: Scalable Aggregated Data Collection in Splunk

Best practices for scalable aggregated data collection
Assigning Role Based Permissions in Splunk Enterprise Security
Security
2 Minute Read

Assigning Role Based Permissions in Splunk Enterprise Security

Learn how to add a new role in Enterprise Security and apply capabilities to it
How to stream AWS CloudWatch Logs to Splunk (Hint: it’s easier than you think)
Tips & Tricks
7 Minute Read

How to stream AWS CloudWatch Logs to Splunk (Hint: it’s easier than you think)

See step-by-step process of AWS Lambda streaming of CloudWatch Logs into Splunk for real-time security analysis, visualization, troubleshooting.
Analyzing BotNets with Suricata & Machine Learning
Platform
3 Minute Read

Analyzing BotNets with Suricata & Machine Learning

Suricata open source threat detection engine data & Splunk machine learning toolkit (MLTK) helps intrusion detection and intrusion prevention (inline).
Playbook: Triage Reconnaissance Alerts
Security
1 Minute Read

Playbook: Triage Reconnaissance Alerts