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A Brief Introduction To Splunk

Herbert Huffner

Splunk _ _) Is One Of The Most Powerful And Flexible SIEM Available In The World To Store, Analyze And Search On Data.

Data recording and review in Splunk is done in a searchable environment through a web user interface that can display data in graphs, tables, alerts, etc.

You can create dashboards for monitoring and diagnosing the organization’s problems, etc., using the ability to create reports and dashboards and check the information assets of various organizations, including security, financial, service companies, etc., at all hours of the day and night.

Among the features of this product is the ability to analyze or so-called Pars All kinds of text logs are mentioned. This solution does not depend on the log format; it is only essential that they are textual.

Using the Splunk product, users can log security equipment, infrastructure equipment such as switches and routers, software, operating systems, and innovative equipment such as IOT assets. ، OT  and examine… This SIEMIt stores and categorizes all these logs in one place. In this way, you can easily see the relationship between the changes in different parts and modify them if necessary.

This product needs a license to store the security logs of an organization to meet the features that users need and to work effectively in an organization’s network.

When sending data to Splunk, the parsing process first and then the storage or indexing process once, and then saving. Simultaneously with the Indexing process, measuring the volume of received data and reporting that volume to the License Master component is for calculating and checking the license volume.

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What are the benefits of using a Splunk license?

These days the knowledge of data analysis and events ( Logs) and Communication networks is essential for securing businesses, including government and private organizations and organizations. The security of processed and stored information is critical for cyber security companies. If they are attacked, it may cost the destruction of that organization and body.

In the meantime, recording, editing, and any changes made to the organization’s data can be stored in the structure of an incident. It helps security and IT managers discover and try to secure suspicious cases from among these incidents.

Also, many cyber security companies inside and outside the country are responsible for monitoring and investigating these events; if they see risks in an organization’s network, they report them and advise them on security. Splunk is one of the most popular software that automatically and comprehensively records incident information for future monitoring.

Through monitoring this information, critical reports can be created and used to identify the damage to the organization’s network so that security operations can be carried out to remove the breaches.

If the license of this product is used, the following capabilities will be provided to the organization or users:

Splunk licenses are divided by data volume, user type, duration, and platform type:

Enterprise license: This type offers the user different volumes, such as (1, 10, 100, etc.) gigabytes of data per day. In other words, using this license model, you can store 1, 10, 100, or … gigabytes of logs or data daily.

License Trial: This type of license allows you to use all the features of Splunk within 60 days, with the difference that the amount of data used daily is limited to 500 MB. This license is unsuitable for organizational use or uses in natural environments and only helpful for testing Splunk capabilities.

Developer license: This type of license, with a data volume of 10 gigabytes per day, provides access to all Splunk features for six months, and after this period, it must be renewed.

 

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