How to enhance your cyber resilience with Splunk Enterprise Security
Cyber resilience is the top challenge for organisations today. In this use case, Mohit Dewan, Avocado’s Digital & Cloud Solutions Practice Manager, discusses how you can enhance your cyber resilience with Splunk Enterprise Security.
Mohit Dewan, Practice Manager, Digital & Cloud Solutions.
In today’s world, organisations are operating in an uncertain environment. Cyber actors are growing more sophisticated, and threats are ongoing, increasing in sophistication and new threats can escalate quickly.
In our experience, the biggest risks for teams is having sufficient cyber security resources to respond to threats. Compounding this is growing regulatory and compliance obligations and the risk of reputation damage for organisations when an attack occurs.
For Security Operations and Governance teams, a need to reduce security incidents, as well as detect security threats faster is critical. Reducing “noise” from false alerts allows teams to focus on real threats and is vital to creating a resilient environment.
For decision-makers – whose corporate reputation is on the line – the need for a solution that can mitigate risks and provide complete audibility is key.
Cyber security – What threats should organisations be worried about?
Considering the heightened cyber security threats facing all organisations across the globe, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has warned Australian organisations to ‘urgently adopt an enhanced cyber security posture.’
Some of the current threats as outlined by the ACSC are, but not limited to:
- Ongoing threat of phishing and ransomware
- Ongoing state-sponsored targeting of network devices
- Exploitation of default multi-factor authentication protocols and known vulnerabilities for network access
- Targeting of the energy sector
- Malicious activity on internet-connected uninterruptible power supply devices
- Cyber supply chain risks as they relate to business including foreign control or interference; poor security practices; lack of transparency; and access and privileges.
How should organisations respond?
Organisations must take a comprehensive approach to cyber resilience – ensuring that people, processes, and systems are resilient. In terms of systems, there are a range of software tools available that offer simple integrations and configurations.
Mid-sized to larger organisations looking to enhance their security posture should adopt the market leading platform – Splunk Enterprise Security. This is a best-in-class enterprise level Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) platform, resulting in a safe, secure IT environment.
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Why Splunk Enterprise Security?
Splunk is the worldwide market dominant SIEM platform – Splunk Enterprise Security sets the standard for SIEM solutions worldwide. It has been rated by Gartner as a market leader for SIEM for the last 8 years.
So, what makes Splunk Enterprise Security the market leader in security software?
When looking for a software tool, you must consider its ability to aid in mitigation, response and recovery (after an incident). Below we outline the top 5 features:
- It’s ability to break down silos (and risk)
Splunk Enterprise Security brings together thousands of security data sources from across the organisation. It has prebuilt integrations across many platforms, including security tools and applications. This means users don’t need to reinvent the wheel. For many integrations it is just a matter of downloading the appropriate technical add-on, performing some simple configurations and adding the resulting new data to the analysis.
- It uses the latest technologies to make threat hunting simple
Harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning powered analytics, Splunk Enterprise Security helps you detect the threat among the noise.
- There are ongoing updates and support
Splunk regularly releases content packs with the most common security use cases for teams to deploy.
- It’s perfect for SOC and governance teams
Splunk Enterprise Security enables SOC operators to run investigations, record results and actions taken complete with audit functionality.
- 5. It minimises false alerting
Splunk Enterprise Security is fully customisable, allowing you to configure custom risk-based alerting to minimise false alerting – so you can focus on the problems that matter to your organisation.
Avocado’s approach
With Splunk being the leading platform in security, finding Splunk resources can be an issue. Avocado has one of the most qualified (and largest) Splunk Enterprise Security consulting teams in Australia. We provide professional services in all aspects of the implementation and configuration of Splunk Enterprise Security including:
- Cybersecurity vulnerability assessment
- SoC operational planning
- Splunk Enterprise Security deployment and configuration
- Cybersecurity Use case analysis
- Integration with security data sources such as
- Cloud platforms
- IAM platforms
- Firewalls
- End point protection tools
- Proxies
- Threat detection tools
- Configuration and optimisation of threat detection searches
- Security Orchestration and Automated Response (SOAR)
- Configuration of alerting and escalation
- Eyes on glass threat hunting and response (SoC functionality)
While cyber threats are complex, building your cyber resilience doesn’t need to be. To get started, we recommend undertaking a cybersecurity vulnerability assessment or SOC operations assessment. These will help you better understand your current state vulnerabilities pertinent to your sector and identify a way forward.
Are you ready to optimise your cyber resilience? Contact our team of professionals and ask them to help you with one of the following:
- Cybersecurity Vulnerability Assessment
- SoC Operations Assessment
- Enterprise Security Deployment / Configuration / Optimisation
