Asset Risk with Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence

Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence (ARI) provides teams with detailed and powerful visibility into risks affecting discovered assets. This helps teams to quickly identify and address gaps in security controls, understand compliance with cybersecurity frameworks and offers greater context during security investigations.

Why is visibility into asset risk important?

According to the Ponemon Institute, nearly 70% of organizations have experienced one or more attacks on their assets that have compromised their data or infrastructure. With these attacks increasing in frequency each day, it has never been more critical to ensure your assets are protected and secured. However, identifying the risks affecting assets and closing gaps in your security controls is impossible without a full and accurate understanding of assets.

Understanding all of your assets, along with the risks that may be affecting them provides much needed visibility into overall security posture and enables teams to address these risks and make smarter decisions.

Identify Gaps in your Security Controls

Splunk ARI combines the continous discovery of all your assets with real-time metrics, to measure and report on compliance against all key security controls. Quickly identify your security control gaps and create health checks to instantly identify non-compliant assets during security investigations.

Many common security metrics are available out of the box and can be configured or customized instantly to work with your business data sources and assets. You also have the ability to quickly create your own business specific metrics and logic for tailored visibility.

Understand Overall Security Posture

Splunk ARI makes it easy to understand and view your overall security posture. The metrics posture view provides visibility across all selected metrics. Each metric is displayed, along with compliance percentage and trending. A full history allows you to easily see if compliance is improving over time, and drill-down functionality provides further insights into the individual assets that are non-compliant.

Track Remediation or Implementation of New Controls

Splunk ARI keeps track of metric compliance over time, to help illustrate measurable improvement and provide tracking into remediation of security control gaps. In addition, Splunk ARI supports the deployment of new or modified security controls, providing real-time insights on a continuous basis. For example, tracking the rollout of a new endpoint security agent across your assets.

Automatically Measure Compliance Against Cybersecurity Frameworks

Splunk ARI directly maps metrics to relevant controls found within common Cybersecurity frameworks to provide detailed framework posture reporting without manual intervention. Out-of-the-box frameworks include NIST, PCI, HIPAA and ISO27001. Alternatively, quickly add your own custom frameworks in just minutes and map the controls to your metrics.

Gain Visibility into your Riskiest Assets

Splunk ARI automatically finds and reports on your assets with risks, for added context and awareness during investigations and to help security teams prioritize efforts. Risk rules can be quickly created based upon asset characteristics, installed software, asset vulnerabilities or metric compliance. These rules dynamically raise or lower the overall risk score of each asset. For example, elevate the risk level of assets used by executives that do not have full disk encryption in place.

Contact us for a demo

For more information on Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence and to contact us for a demo or information on our dedicated professional service offerings, please visit our dedicated Splunk ARI page here.

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Asset Risk with Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence