Splunk for Security Analysts / Engineers

Shortest path to get into Cyber Security (SOC) is knowledge of one of the SIEM Tools, Lets see Splunk for that matter which is I guess the most widely used SIEM solution.

Worried about cost ? Lets focus on learning thorught the Trial Splunk Setup.

Table of Contents

• Phase 1: Introduction to Splunk (Beginner)
• Upcoming Soon [WIP]
• Phase 2: Intermediate Splunk for Security Analysts
• Phase 3: Advanced Security Analytics in Splunk
• Phase 4: Current Developments & Industry Trends

Phase 1: Introduction to Splunk (Beginner)

⏳ Duration: 1-2 weeks

🎯 Goal: Understand Splunk’s core concepts, interface, and basic search capabilities.

1. Introduction to Splunk
2. What is Splunk? Why use it in Security?
3. Splunk Free vs. Enterprise vs. Cloud
4. Installation & setup (Local / Cloud)
5. Splunk architecture: Indexers, Search Heads, Forwarders
6. Basic Navigation
7. Splunk Web UI overview
8. Search & Reporting App
9. Splunk Processing Components (Indexing, Parsing, Searching)
10. Basic Searching
11. Search Processing Language (SPL) basics
12. Using index=, source=, sourcetype=
13. Search modes: Fast, Smart, Verbose
14. Understanding timestamps & time ranges
15. Field Extraction & Data Normalization
16. Automatic vs. Manual field extractions
17. Using rex and spath commands for JSON/XML logs
18. Aliases, Calculated Fields, and Lookups
19. Hands-on Labs
20. Installing Splunk locally
21. Running your first searches
22. Extracting fields using SPL
23. Uploading sample logs & indexing them

Upcoming Soon [WIP]

Phase 2: Intermediate Splunk for Security Analysts

Phase 3: Advanced Security Analytics in Splunk

Phase 4: Current Developments & Industry Trends

Additional Resources 🔗 Splunk Documentation: https://docs.splunk.com