The document outlines the agenda of a Splunk PNW User Group meeting held on March 30, 2023, featuring topics such as updates on Splunk Enterprise Security and educational resources available for users. It highlights advancements in security analytics, cloud solutions, and new training programs aimed at enhancing user experience and efficiency with Splunk products. Additionally, it announces upcoming events, networking opportunities, and emphasizes the importance of user engagement in the community.

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Splunk PNW
User Group
30 March, 2023

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Agenda
Topic Speaker Organization Time
Welcome
Grab your lunch, get comfy
Intros and announcements
Amanda Richardson
Sr. Customer Success Manager
Splunk 15m
Splunk Enterprise Security - What’s New Dan Hogland
Staff Security CSE
Splunk 30m
Splunk Education - Learning for All! Melissa Riley
Learning Success Manager
Splunk 30m
Open Discussion and Networking Time! User Community All 30m
Wrap up
Closing remarks, topic ideas
Rob de Luna
Sr. Solutions Engineer
Splunk 15m

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Splunk
Enterprise
Security
A data-centric, modern SIEM solution
Dan Hogland
Staff CSE, Security

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Forward-
Looking
Statements
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The Splunk Difference
A data-centric approach to security
Any Data, Any
Source
Make disparate
data available,
queryable, and
actionable 1
Fast, Flexible
Investigations
Achieve 100%
compliance and
5x faster security
investigations 2
Proven
Scalability
Ingest TBs of data
per day and perform
over 1M searches
per week 3
Open
Ecosystem
2,800+ integrations
to support your
best-in-class
technology stack 4
Support for All
Deployments
Effectively monitor
and secure complex
multicloud or hybrid
environments 5
Source 1: Nasdaq customer story
Source 2: Check Point Software customer story
Source 3: Intel customer story
Source 4: Slack customer story & Splunkbase
Source 5: Travis Perkins PLC customer story

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Advanced
Analytics
● 1170+ detections with 100+ cloud-
based detections
● 30% increase in true-positive alert
rates with Risk-Based Alerting (RBA)
● Enrich and prioritize alerts with
integrated threat intelligence (Splunk
Intelligence Management)
● Align security operations to industry
frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK, NIST,
CIS 20, and Kill Chain)
● Dive deep with intuitive search and
investigation capabilities
Boost productivity

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What’s New in ES

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What’s New in
Splunk
Enterprise
Security 7.0?
● Executive Summary Dashboard
● Security Operations Dashboard
● Cloud Security Monitoring
Dashboards
● Real-Time Content Updates
● Dark Mode User Experience
(Cloud)
On Prem & Cloud

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On Prem & Cloud
Executive Summary
Dashboard
● Increased visibility for CISOs, Security
Directors and SOC Managers into overall
health of security program
● Key Insights
○ Mean Time to Triage
○ Mean Time to Respond
○ Investigations Created
○ Assigned Notables Over Time
○ Notable Event History Trends
○ Risk-Based Alerting Trends
○ Adaptive Response Action Trends
Executive Level Security Insights with
Trends over Time
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On Prem & Cloud
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Security Operations
Dashboard
● Key Insights
○ Mean Time to Triage
○ Mean Time to Respond
○ Investigations Created
○ Notable Assignments
○ Notable and Analyst Close Rate
○ Notable Disposition
■ False Positives
■ True Positives
■ Benign Positives
Performance and Efficiency
Insights across Security Operations

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● New Dashboards include
○ AWS Security Groups
○ AWS IAM Activity
○ AWS Network ACLs
○ AWS Access Analyzer
○ Microsoft 365
● Enterprise Security 7.0 proactively notifies you of new
content updates from the Splunk Threat Research Team
and enables updates in one click
Cloud Security
Dashboards
Visibility into AWS and Microsoft
365 Cloud Security Datasets
Real-Time
Content Updates
Automated Security Content Delivery
On Prem & Cloud
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Cloud
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Modernized User
Experience
● Updated “Dark Mode” User Interface
● ES joins other Splunk Security Products
in adopting modern development
frameworks and best practices
Unified User Experience

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What’s New in Splunk Enterprise Security 7.1?
MITRE ATT&CK Framework
Matrix
Provides the ability to visualize
MITRE ATT&CK tactics and
techniques in Risk Notable Events
and operationalize the MITRE
ATT&CK framework when
responding to Notable Events
Cloud Based Streaming
Analytics
Enables scalable, real-time
streaming analytics for a broad
range of advanced security
detections that address common
use cases.
Threat Topology
Allows analysts to immediately
discover the scope of a security
incident and quickly pivot
between affected assets and
users in the investigation.

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● Real-time insider threat detections
● Seamless integration with ES
● Scalable analytics
● Simple to deploy, cloud-native &
low maintenance solution
Detect Suspicious Behavior In Real-
Time
Cloud Based Streaming Analytics* & Risk Based Alerting
*Cloud-Based Streaming Analytics will be available in US East only on 1/11.
Cloud

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Quickly Discover
the Scope of an
Incident to
Respond
Accurately
● Comprehensive view into
security incidents
● Quickly determine the
severity level of an incident
● Identify additional impacted
subjects of an investigation
without writing a single line of
code of query language
Threat Topology Visualization
Cloud & On-Prem

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Improve Security
Workflow
Efficiencies With
Embedded
Frameworks
● Visualize MITRE ATT&CK
tactics and techniques in Risk
Notable Events
● Operationalize the MITRE
ATT&CK framework when
responding to Notable Events
MITRE ATT&CK Framework
Matrix Visualization
Cloud & On-Prem

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Splunk
Education
Free Splunk
Training Overview
March 2023

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Time to Value Adoption Productivity Support Needs
Deploy use cases faster
to deliver business
outcomes
Reduce the number of
support calls and
consulting engagements
Empower end users to
adopt and use the
Splunk platform
Enable developers and
power users to build assets
efficiently and effectively
Splunk Education Benefits
Increase your Return on Splunk Investment (ROI)

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Accelerate Success
Industry and
Splunk experts
Technical
Instructors
Lecture, demos,
hands-on labs
and assessments
Comprehensive
Curriculum
Classroom, virtual
and self-paced
learning
Flexible
Delivery Methods
Based on Splunk
product and
persona
Learning
Paths
Validate and
prove Splunk
skills
Certification
Tracks

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Who benefits?
When is
it?
What do I
have to do?
And then?
Designed to create
a better experience
for customers,
partners, and
prospects.
Complete all in-
progress training
before the transition
on May 17.
Transition to the new
system will cause
downtime from
May 17-21.
Anyone who takes
Splunk technical
training
May 22 launch
Plan ahead
Enjoy the new
learning
experience
What’s new?
Supports all
Splunk product
technical training
and certifications.
More feature-rich
and streamlined
experience
Splunk Training and Enablement Portal (STEP)
New Splunk Learning Platform

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Splunk has
free Training
for all

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Free
Learning
Paths

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Free
Learning
Paths
● Learning paths based on
Splunk product and persona
● Enterprise and Cloud Basics- 23 free eLearning
○ Ingest and correlate different data sources in Splunk Platform
○ Enrich unstructured data
○ Extract custom fields
○ Manage knowledge objects
○ Understand SPL best practices for better data analysis
● Splunk Enterprise Security- 5 free eLearning
○ Learn the value of Splunk Security solutions
○ Get an overview of use cases and best practices
○ Get an overview of SOAR
● Splunk Observability Overview + Apps- 13 free eLearning
○ Learn the value of Splunk Observability solutions
○ Get an overview of use cases and best practices

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Free Splunk Training

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Search Expert
Course About
eLearning no
Labs
Time
What is Splunk? Dig into machine data and how to use operational intelligence. Free 45 min
Intro to Splunk Learn Splunk basics, including reports, dashboards and events. Free 45 min
Using Fields Expand your understanding of fields and their use in searches. Free 1 hour
Visualizations
Find out how to manage and visualize data in the Splunk
platform.
Free 1 hour
Working with Time Gain expertise at using time in searches. Free 3 hours
Statistical Processing
Maximize the impact of your data with transforming commands
and eval functions.
Free 3 hours
Comparing Values
Leverage the power of eval functions and expressions to
compare field values
Free 3 hours
Result Modification Learn which commands manipulate output and normalize data. Free 3 hours
Scheduling Reports and Alerts Automate incident response using reports and alerts. Free 3 hours
Introduction to Dashboards Explore best practices for creating and using dashboards. Free 1 hour
Search Under the Hood Dive into Splunk architecture and search processing. Free 1 hour
Notes:
- Pricing and courses are subject to change.
- Dedicated virtual and onsite classes accommodate a maximum of 12 learners in each class.
- For additional dedicated onsite terms, refer to https://education.splunk.com/Pricing
● Required Courses in Learning Path
● Indent shows logical sequence of courses

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Knowledge Manager
Course About
eLearning no
Labs
Time
What is Splunk? Dig into machine data and how to use operational intelligence. Free 45 min
Intro to Splunk Learn Splunk basics, including reports, dashboards and events. Free 45 min
Using Fields Expand your understanding of fields and their use in searches. Free 1 hour
Intro to Knowledge Objects Learn to create, define, edit and manage knowledge objects. Free 1 hour
Creating Knowledge Objects Use the Splunk web interface to create knowledge objects. Free 3 hours
Creating Field Extractions
Unlock the Field Extractor (FX) utility to understand the when and how of field
extraction in Splunk.
Free 3 hours
Enriching Data with Lookups Understand how to upload, define, automate and use advanced lookup options. Free 3 hours
Data Models Discover the power of data models, including creation, design and acceleration Free 3 hours
Notes:
- Pricing and courses are subject to change.
- Dedicated virtual and onsite classes accommodate a maximum of 12 learners in each class.
- For additional dedicated onsite terms, refer to https://education.splunk.com/Pricing
● Required Courses in Learning Path
● Indent shows logical sequence of courses

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Free Splunk Security Training
Course About
eLearning no
Labs
Time
Introduction to Enterprise Security
Understand how Enterprise Security can help identify and protect your
organization from threats.
Free 40 min
Introduction to Splunk Security Essentials Explore use cases and analytic stories from Splunk Security Essentials (SSE) to
discover how the detection works.
Free 45 min
Introduction to Splunk UBA
Learn to define UBA and how Splunk can give insight into threats, anomalies,
and internal data.
Free 16 min
Introduction to Splunk SOAR
Discover the features, capabilities and use cases for Splunk SOAR (Security
Orchestration and Automated Response).
Free 20 min
Developing SOAR Applications
Unlock the possibilities of SOAR application designing, debugging and testing. Free 45 min
SOAR Phantom Container Creation
Walkthrough
This 7-minute video guides analysts through creating containers via 3 methods:
using an app, manually, or via import.
Free 7 min
Notes:
- Pricing and courses are subject to change.
- Dedicated virtual and onsite classes accommodate a maximum of 12 learners in each class.
- For additional dedicated onsite terms, refer to https://education.splunk.com/Pricing

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Free Splunk Enterprise & Cloud Training
Course About
eLearning no
Labs
Time
Splunk Infrastructure Overview
This self-paced course gives users a high-level look at how to grow a Splunk
deployment from a single instance to a distributed environment
Free 1 hour
Getting Data In Understand the basics of data source types and input. Free 30 min
Splunk Enterprise Installation and
Configuration
Understand the basics of installing Splunk in a non-clustered environment. Free 30 min
Splunk Enterprise Licensing
Review best practices of managing Splunk licenses and configuring Splunk
License Manager.
Free 21 min
Upgrading Splunk Enterprise
Arm yourself with knowledge for your next non-clustered Splunk Enterprise
upgrade.
Free 17 min
IT Essentials Learn - Walkthrough This 8-minute eLearning course steps you through the IT Essentials Learn app Free 8 min
IT Essentials Work - Walkthrough
This 12.5-minute walkthrough is for Splunk and IT admins with basic IT
knowledge who understand IT Operations and monitoring.
Free 12.5 min
Notes:
- Pricing and courses are subject to change.
- Dedicated virtual and onsite classes accommodate a maximum of 12 learners in each class.
- For additional dedicated onsite terms, refer to https://education.splunk.com/Pricing

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Free Splunk Observability - Infrastructure Monitoring &
Application Performance Monitoring
Course SREs DevOps
Develo
pers
About
Introduction to Splunk Observability (Cloud) - Free eLearning ✓ ✓ ✓ Learn the difference between monitoring and observability.
Getting Data into Splunk Observability Cloud - Free eLearning ✓
Use the Splunk Distribution of the Open Telemetry (OTel)
Collector to send metrics and logs to Splunk Observability Cloud.
Introduction to Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring (IM) - Free eLearning ✓ ✓ ✓ Explore the Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring basics.
Splunk Observability Cloud: Teams - Free eLearning ✓ ✓
See how to set up and manage teams in the Splunk Cloud
platform.
Splunk Observability Cloud: Enterprise Features - Free eLearning ✓ ✓ ✓ See how to set permissions and use mirrored dashboards.
Implementing the Splunk App for Infrastructure (SAI) - Free eLearning ✓ ✓ ✓ Get all the details for installing and configuring SAI.
Introduction to Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (eLearning) ✓ ✓ ✓
Get an overview of Splunk APM's key features, navigation and
basic troubleshooting.
Notes:
- Pricing and courses are subject to change.
- Dedicated virtual and onsite classes accommodate a maximum of 12 learners in each class.
- For additional dedicated onsite terms, refer to https://education.splunk.com/Pricing

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Splunk Observability - Other Products
Course SREs DevOps
Develop
ers
About
Introduction to Splunk Log Observer - Free eLearning ✓ ✓ ✓
Understand filtering and browsing log messages, finding trends in log data through
aggregation functions, and facilitating team collaboration
Introduction to Splunk Synthetic Monitoring - Free eLearning ✓ ✓ ✓
Learn what Splunk Synthetic Monitoring is, explore the UI and differentiate the
types of tests.
Using Splunk Synthetic Monitoring (RIGOR) - Free eLearning ✓ ✓ ✓ Understand best practices, data visualization and alerts.
Introduction to Splunk Real User Monitoring - Free eLearning ✓ Delve into how to use Splunk RUM for troubleshooting.
Responding to Incidents in Splunk On-Call - Free eLearning ✓ ✓ ✓ Dig into shifts, rotations, escalation and scheduling.
Splunk App for Content Packs - Free eLearning Review the basics of Splunk's App for Content Packs, including installation,
configuration and metrics monitoring.
Notes:
- Pricing and courses are subject to change.
- Dedicated virtual and onsite classes accommodate a maximum of 12 learners in each class.
- For additional dedicated onsite terms, refer to https://education.splunk.com/Pricing

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Splunk
Education
Helpful Tips
● Splunk Education Official Website
● Splunk Education Student Handbook
● Splunk Certification Handbook
● Splunk Education Pricing
● Registration and Passkey Guide
● Splunk Academic Alliance Program

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Splunk
Education
Contacts
Education Coordinators by Region
Education_AMER@splunk.com
Education_EMEA@splunk.com
Education_APAC@splunk.com
Certification
Certification@splunk.com

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Leaders
● User leaders
needed!
Next meeting
● In person in
Seattle
Wrap up
Topic ideas
● Drop
suggestions
or offers to
speak to the
#pnw channel
in the UG
slack
.conf23
● July 20-23
● Las Vegas

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Thank You