Description
Introduction
Splunk Security Analysts training empowers cybersecurity professionals and aspiring SOC‑analysts with the skills needed to use Splunk for real‑world security monitoring, threat detection, and incident response. In this course, you’ll master both foundational and advanced Splunk capabilities so you can analyze logs, detect anomalies, create alerts, and build dashboards tailored for security operations.
Why This Course Matters
In modern IT environments, security events — from failed login attempts to suspicious network traffic — generate huge volumes of data. Manually sifting through these logs is time‑consuming and error‑prone. Splunk turns that data into actionable intelligence. By learning Splunk through this course, you become capable of building a centralized, scalable, and efficient Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) workflow. This not only helps in threat detection and compliance audits but also strengthens your ability to respond rapidly to security incidents.
Who Should Enroll
- Current or aspiring SOC analysts, security engineers, or IT administrators.
- Anyone responsible for monitoring security logs — from Windows event logs or Syslog to firewalls, web servers, and network devices.
- IT professionals looking to upskill into cybersecurity monitoring and incident detection roles.
- Students and professionals preparing for security‑focused certifications or roles that involve log analytics, SIEM, and incident response.
Course Outline & What You’ll Learn
- Introduction to Splunk & SIEM Concepts
Understand what SIEM is, why it’s critical in cybersecurity, and learn the core architecture of Splunk (indexers, forwarders, search heads, dashboards). - Setting Up Splunk for Security Use‑Cases
Install and configure Splunk on Windows and/or Linux, configure universal forwarders, ingest logs from multiple sources (OS logs, firewall, IDS/IPS, web servers, application logs), and map them using common schemas or data models. - Using Pre‑built Security Content & Apps
Learn to deploy and use security‑oriented Splunk apps (free & enterprise) to accelerate detection, monitoring, and alert creation. Explore built-in dashboards, content libraries, and out-of-the-box rules for common threats. - Writing & Customizing SPL (Search Processing Language) Queries for Security Monitoring
Master SPL — filtering logs, normalizing data, detecting anomalies, correlating events, extracting indicators of compromise (IoCs), failed logins, privilege escalations, suspicious network traffic, etc. - Creating Dashboards, Alerts & Reports
Build SOC‑style dashboards for real‑time monitoring, configure alerts to trigger on suspicious activity, and generate reports for compliance, audit, and incident review. - Incident Investigation & Threat Hunting
Use Splunk to perform threat hunting and forensic investigations — track unusual user behavior, correlate multi‑source data, and reconstruct attack timelines. - Security Hardening & Best Practices
Learn how to secure your Splunk deployment: enable secure communications (TLS), manage user permissions and roles, audit configuration changes — ensuring the SIEM itself remains hardened and compliant. - Advanced Use-Cases: Automation, Enrichment & Scaling
Explore integration with threat intelligence feeds, enrichment with contextual data (asset databases, geolocation, identity data), and automation/orchestration for incident response using add-ons or external tools. Also cover scaling Splunk for enterprise-level deployments.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Install and configure Splunk for a variety of log sources (Windows, Linux, network devices, security appliances, web servers).
- Create and customise SPL queries to detect threats, anomalies, and suspicious behavior.
- Build dashboards, alerts, and reports tailored to a SOC environment.
- Perform incident investigations and threat‑hunting workflows with multi‑source data correlation.
- Harden your Splunk environment following security best practices, ensuring safe and robust operations.
- Scale your Splunk deployments and integrate with enrichment sources, threat‑intelligence feeds, and automation/orchestration tools for efficient incident response workflows.
Why This Course is Unique
Unlike generic log‑analysis courses, this training is explicitly focused on security — from installation to advanced SOC workflows. You won’t just learn how to make Splunk run; you’ll learn how to operate it like a professional SOC analyst. The course blends theory with hands‑on practical labs, real‑world log‑analysis scenarios, and best practices for hardening and enterprise‑scale deployment. You’ll graduate with marketable cybersecurity skills that organizations actively seek.
Explore These Valuable Resources
- Splunk Security Essentials — Official Documentation
- Splunk Security Content Repository on GitHub
- How to Secure and Harden a Splunk Platform Instance


















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