
Meet instructor Ritu Gupta as this course guides SOC analysts, leaders, and threat hunters to master Splunk, covering L1, L2, and L3 topics and onboarding logs with admins.
Explore Splunk Enterprise as a siem to collect, parse, normalize, and enrich logs, view them on a common timeline, and use correlation searches to generate security alerts.
Explore the four segments of the Splunk data pipeline—input, parsing, indexing, and search—and how inputs like file monitor, Windows events, TCP/UDP, HTTP event collector, and scripted inputs are ingested.
Explore Splunk components, from Splunk Enterprise with indexer, search head, deployment server, license master, to universal and heavy forwarders; learn indexer storage, searches, and knowledge objects.
Map data pipeline segments to Splunk components, outlining how parsing, indexing, and searching occur across universal forwarders, heavy forwarders, and indexers, with local passing by circuits and cluster Master.
Explore multiple Splunk deployment architectures—from standalone to distributed and clustered setups—and learn how forwarders, deployment servers, heavy forwarders, and indexer clusters enable scalable searching and indexing.
Review the Splunk architecture diagram and high-level components to support your learning journey. Explore the Splunk validated architecture document for diverse example architectures.
Create an Azure account at portal.azure.com and register with a username and password. Start a free trial with credits and learn to manage and delete resources after 30 days.
Learn to create a Windows 10 virtual machine on Azure using free 30-day trial credits, including region, size, resource group, and RDP connection.
Upload the Splunk developer license, switch to https, set the timezone, then restart to apply changes and verify a ten GB daily ingest limit.
Learn to install Splunk on a Linux machine (CentOS 7 64-bit in VMware): download the Linux installer, create a Splunk user and group, install under /opt, and start with boot-start.
Upload the Splunk license on a Linux instance, apply basic configurations, set the India time zone, enable https, and set the web port to 8000 with a global banner.
Discover how Splunk default ports enable component communication, from Splunk web access and management ports to receiving data from forwarders and cluster replication between indexer and cluster members.
Discover how Splunk stores settings in .conf files and how web or back-end edits update inputs.conf, outputs.conf, indexes.conf, transforms.conf, props.conf, web.conf, and task.conf for data onboarding and forwarding.
Access the search and reporting app, review logs by index, install the eventgen app, create web and firewall indexes, then restart Splunk to start data flow.
Install the eventgen app on Splunk Enterprise (CentOS Linux), copy the app to Splunk home/apps, unzip, set permissions, restart Splunk, and verify logs in web and firewall indexes.
This course is specially designed for SOC analysts, Threat hunters and SOC Leads, so that they can use Splunk in completing their BAU tasks.
Please note that Splunk Enterprise Security App is a premium product from Splunk (it is not available for free or trail), though Splunk Enterprise trail is available.
Please also note that this course is not about security concepts, though it helps you to learn Splunk and use it as a Security Professional.
This course also do not cover the administration related task, though it lay strong foundation before you learn Splunk administration related things.
You might also experience audio issues with background noise and I want to apologize for the same, as I am not a trainer. I am just a industry expert and have delivered the best content which will help you in real life, as I have gone through that journey.
As a SOC analyst, learning Splunk is crucial to stay ahead in the constantly evolving cybersecurity landscape. Splunk is the industry-leading tool for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing data, and it is widely used by organizations of all sizes to manage their security operations.
By learning Splunk, you can efficiently monitor your organization's network and systems logs, detect anomalies, and investigate incidents in real-time. You can also create custom dashboards and reports to visualize data and identify trends, which can help you make informed decisions and take proactive measures to prevent future security threats.
Moreover, having Splunk expertise on your resume can significantly improve your job prospects and career growth opportunities. Many organizations require SOC analysts to have Splunk skills, and the demand for Splunk professionals is rapidly increasing. So, learning Splunk not only enhances your skills and capabilities but also opens up new doors of opportunities in the cybersecurity industry.
In summary, learning Splunk is a smart investment in your career as a SOC analyst, and it can help you stay competitive and advance your career in the rapidly growing cybersecurity field.