Enhancing Security Operations: The Native Integration of Splunk ES and SOAR
Integrating Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) with Splunk Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) can significantly enhance your organization’s security operations. By automating alert handling and response processes, this integration streamlines security incident management and enables faster, more effective threat mitigation. Splunk SOAR empowers security teams to automate actions based on Splunk ES detections using assigned playbooks, enabling seamless incident resolution.
Current App Integration
The current integration with Splunk SOAR requires a specific app, found on Splunkbase, called the Splunk App for SOAR Export. This is the official Splunk app that integrates Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud with Splunk SOAR. This app is responsible for sending data from your Splunk Enterprise or Cloud instances to Splunk SOAR. Once that data is in Splunk SOAR, you can perform automated actions with over 350+ different security tools. This app includes an integration with Splunk Enterprise Security, which allows for ES data to be sent to SOAR.
This app is installed directly on the Splunk ES Search Head. The configuration process will vary based upon your environment and comprehensive documentation is available, detailing the integration functionality.
Upcoming Native Integration
Now, here’s the exciting part: In response to customer requests for a more seamless integration, Splunk announced at the recent Splunk .conf24 that upcoming releases of Splunk ES and Splunk SOAR will feature a native integration, eliminating the need for the additional app. This native integration will revolutionize the way Splunk ES and Splunk SOAR interact, enabling automation to enrich and orchestrate on instances at risk directly from the analyst queue. With this enhancement, valuable time that was previously spent on integrating and pairing Splunk ES with Splunk SOAR can be repurposed, as complex SIEM mapping and support ticket creation will become obsolete.
With the future upgrade, the automation rules framework will seamlessly interact with playbooks in Splunk SOAR based on Splunk ES detections. This means that Splunk ES will directly engage with Splunk SOAR instances to execute playbooks for further actions on detections via Mission Control, which will be embedded in Splunk ES. This streamlined workflow will support both generic and detailed automation use cases and serve as the centralized framework to manage playbooks based on specific conditions.
In summary, the upcoming native integration of Splunk ES and Splunk SOAR represents a major leap forward in security operations automation. By simplifying the integration process and optimizing the interaction between these two essential platforms, organizations will benefit from enhanced efficiency, reduced incident response times, and ultimately, improved security posture.
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