Splunk

Splunk is a very common and powerful SIEM that is used by many companies. Multicloud Defense supports Log Forwarding to Splunk to send Security Events and Traffic Log information for processing, storage, access and correlation. The information sent is in a semi-structured JSON format where the attribute-value pairs can be accessed and processed.

Requirements

In order to forward logs to Splunk, the following information is required:

Splunk account
Splunk Collector URL
Event Collector Key
Index Name

Tip	For information on the Splunk Event Collector, refer to Splunk HTTP Event Collector (https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.0/Data/UsetheHTTPEventCollector).

Profile Parameters


Parameter	Requirement	Default	Description
Profile Name	Required		A unique name to use to reference the Profile.
Description	Optional		A description for the Profile.
Destination	Required	Datadog	The SIEM used for the Profile.
Skip Verify Certificate	Optional	Unchecked	Whether to skip verifying the authenticity of the certificate.
Endpoint	Required		The URL used to access the HTTP Event Collector.
Token	Required		The Splunk Token to allow Multicloud Defense to communicate with Splunk.
Index	Required	main	The name of the Splunk index used to store events.