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Splunk

Now part of Cisco: the reference for SIEM and observability on logs — security and IT read in the machine data.

FOCUS · LOGS THAT TALKSearch, correlate, react: the platform where machine data becomes answers
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01 · What it is

Splunk, made clear.

Splunk indexes any machine data — logs, metrics, events — and makes it queryable in real time with SPL. On top: Enterprise Security as the SIEM (correlations, risk-based alerting, SOAR) and Observability for applications and infrastructure. With the Cisco acquisition, network and security telemetry converges here.

Any data
everything that logs gets in: schema-on-read, no imposed formats
SPL
the search language: from question to answer over billions of events
RBA
risk-based alerting: fewer alerts, more stories worth an analyst
Splunk
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02 · How to use it well

The things that make the difference.

The platform

SOC & IT operationsthose who investigate and those who operate
Ingest & index
Search (SPL)
ES · SIEM + SOAR
collect · understand · respond
Dashboards & alertsoperational visibility
Sources: network, security, apps, OTthe whole estate that talks
From the raw log to the decision

Governed ingest

Splunk is paid (also) by volume: sourcetypes, filters and retention designed upfront save the budget.

Security use cases

The correlations on YOUR environment: authentications, ransomware patterns, exfiltrations — not textbook rules.

A SOAR that works

The enrichment and containment playbooks: at night the automation answers.

With Cisco telemetry

Firewalls, ISE and the network inside: the incident's story complete, not in pieces.

03 · In depth

The security and observability data platform

Splunk indexes any log with schema-on-read (SPL to search, correlate, visualize): Enterprise Security is the SIEM (risk-based alerting that aggregates the signals per entity, curated detections), SOAR orchestrates the response with visual playbooks, Observability Cloud unites metrics/traces/logs for APM; the Cisco acquisition brings the network telemetries and Talos TI inside; the deployment is cloud or on-prem, the license by ingest or workload.

  • SPL — the language that queries everything: the log becomes an answer
  • RBA — the alerts aggregated by entity risk: the noise collapses, the signal stays
  • ES + SOAR — detection and orchestrated response: the SOC with hands
  • Observability — metrics, traces and logs united: the outage understood in minutes
  • Talos + rete Cisco — the native network telemetries: the post-acquisition pairing
  • Workload pricing — the license on compute, not on GBs: the ingest breathes
04 · Numbers and lifecycle

The numbers that matter.

PB
the indexing scale
-70%
the alerts with typical RBA
2800+
the apps on Splunkbase
24/7
in our SOC/NOC flow
Splunk pays off with content: parsers, detections and playbooks tuned by us — the platform that pays for its ingest.
05 · Use cases

Where it really pays off.

The corporate SOC

The reference SIEM, with our rules.

IT troubleshooting

The cause found by searching, not by rebooting.

Log compliance

Retention and reports for NIS2, PCI, audits.

The machine data already knows what happened: Splunk makes them talk, we listen 24/7.