Logs Are for Campfires: Splunk’s Asset and Risk Intelligence Leaves No Vulnerability Undiscovered!

Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence empowers organizations to identify and address vulnerabilities in their security posture proactively. By leveraging key compliance framework controls and providing customizable dashboards and metrics, ARI offers clear visibility into assets missing critical security controls. This allows organizations to proactively close gaps in security controls, regardless of the regulatory frameworks they must comply with. ARI's comprehensive asset inventory and risk assessment capabilities enable organizations to prioritize remediation efforts, focusing on the most critical vulnerabilities first. This proactive approach helps organizations strengthen their security posture, reduce the risk of breaches, and ensure compliance with industry regulations. The risk scoring insights dashboard provides a clear visualization of the current risk state by providing a dynamic risk score for all your assets.

Composite Risk Score Insights

Discovered Vulnerabilities

Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence doesn't just stop at the basics. It's your window into the hidden corners of your digital landscape, where vulnerabilities often lurk. With its insight dashboards, you can dive deep into the details of your IT environment, uncovering potential risks associated with operating systems, IoT devices, and even those easily overlooked default accounts. You'll have access to summary reports that paint a clear picture of discovered vulnerabilities and software, user identities, and more. But it's not just about raw data; ARI transforms this information into actionable insights. The discovery outputs go a step further, showcasing geographical locations and trends over time, helping you understand where your vulnerabilities are concentrated and how they evolve. When it comes to vulnerabilities, the specialized dashboard offers an in-depth starting point for understanding your top risks, allowing you to factor those vulnerabilities into your overall risk exposure. ARI empowers you to move beyond simple asset management and into proactive risk mitigation, giving you the tools to make informed decisions about where to focus your security efforts.

Risk Scoring Filters and Rules

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Risk rules in Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence are your secret weapons, constantly monitoring asset activity for potential threats. Built from dynamic risk filters, they allow you to precisely target assets based on records, software, and vulnerabilities. This granular control ensures that your risk rules are laser-focused on the potential risks that matter most to your organization. Risk rules provide defense and observability analysts with a comprehensive view of asset risk, empowering them to proactively identify and mitigate potential security incidents. By grouping various asset characteristics within a rule, you can build a clear picture of current risks' on the asset investigation dashboard. This enables your team to make informed decisions and take decisive action to safeguard your digital assets.

Dynamic Asset Risk Scoring

These risk rules generate risk scores and allow you to understand the dynamic nature of risk when investigating assets. They create a composite risk score that adapts to changes in asset activity, providing valuable context during investigations. You can see how the overall risk level compares to similar assets and visualize how the composite risk score has evolved over time. This gives you a powerful tool to manage and mitigate potential threats proactively. Risk scoring in ARI is tied to asset risk rules that run against the data in ARI. The scores from all rules are combined to produce an overall 'composite risk score' for an asset. The composite risk score dynamically grows and shrinks based on the rules affecting the asset and the time since the rules were triggered.

With the evolution of complex attack chains, the challenges we face in tracking exposure to critical risks continue to rise. The ability to track your vulnerabilities and the opportunity to mitigate preemptively can be mission-critical. This is where Splunk's Asset and Risk Intelligence shines, providing risk metrics and scoring that allow you to stay ahead of the risk exposure curve. These risk scores factor into the asset's health and integrate with Enterprise Security Risk Based Alerting (RBA) to further enhance SOC investigations. Gaining access to your assets, categorized by risk score, can allow your teams to quickly visualize your attack surface as new vulnerabilities emerge and better understand your cyber asset attack surface.

Stay tuned for part four of this series, where we dive into how ARI integrates with Enterprise Security and your existing CMDB to help improve your asset, risk, and compliance posture. If you haven't already, be sure to also check out the first and second entries in this blog series for more great information and demos of how ARI can help you improve your approach to SecOps.

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