New to cybersecurity and have been knocking out certs. I heard a lot of people refer to Splunk and have seen job listings that require knowledge of Splunk. I'm aiming for a SOC analyst position. Is Splunk the go to SIEM that most companies use? What are some secondaries that are also widely used?
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Solely from the information in your question, narrowing down that list of 86 is not going to be easy - I had a quick flick through as I know a fair few of the top names. Some points:
- SIEM solutions should all be able to run log correlation type activities
- Most include device insertion logging and Tripwire type checks (or can incorpoprate Tripwire or any other SYSLOG logs)
- Most of them have reasonable user interfaces
- Most have scriptable command line interfaces
What you should do is list out the things you do want/need it to have and select on those items. If you can get it down to under ten you have a much better chance of being able to run comparison tests.
I personally use Splunk for this very thing. It has a robust search/correlation/dashboard functionality. Plus, it can run Python scripts natively so that you can generate your own data from custom sources.
For example, comparing a list of who is supposed to be working with the list of logged in users would be a trivial search.
Splunk is simply very powerful and helpful for me. It reduced 45 minutes of manual checks of various logs, reports, emails, etc down to an automatically generated email in pdf form.