Comprehensive, Continuous, and Compliant: Obtain Proactive Insights with Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence

The Splunk team is excited to announce the release of the latest addition to our security product portfolio, Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence (ARI). The modern digital landscape is a complex mix of devices, users, and a wide array of products and applications, all spread across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. In an ever-expanding IOT driven world, organizations can struggle to keep track of all the assets that make up their business and ensure that each and every one of those assets is secure, up-to-date, and in line with the latest security compliance and regulatory standards.

That’s where Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence comes in!

While more traditional asset management tools and configuration management databases (CMDBs) can offer some insights into the devices and users that make up an organization, they often fall short with incomplete, inaccurate, and outdated information. Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence is designed to continuously discover assets in Splunk data, and can help identify potential compliance violations and gaps in security controls using established and custom frameworks. This helps your security teams conduct faster and more thorough investigations with a more accurate and up-to-date view of the assets that make up your organization.

Comprehensive and Continuous Asset Visibility

Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence provides users with a unified and continuously updated inventory of their assets and identities by correlating data across multiple sources—including network, endpoint, cloud, and scanning tools. ARI eliminates stale data, helping to ensure that your asset inventory is more  accurate, up-to-date, and comprehensive. These more precise insights are crucial for reducing risk exposure and eliminating potential blind spots.

ARI analyzes information from multiple sources, finds pattern similarities, and identifies and correlates when different systems report the same asset to provide a single reconciled view of the data as one asset and identity, helping your team maintain a more accurate and consistent asset inventory. Furthermore, ARI also provides users with a complete history of security events and can attribute which assets were involved in said events and how those assets have changed and interacted with other users and devices over time.

Accelerate Security Investigations with Accurate Context

Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence provides accurate asset and identity context to focus and shorten investigations. By mapping relationships between assets and identities, security teams can quickly identify who is associated with what assets and when said assets have been interacted with. ARI provides rich asset and identity context — including network activity, asset associations, and asset health for more complete and faster security investigations.

Additionally, ARI reduces the time spent pivoting to other systems and tools to take stock of the assets involved in an attack and the potential risk to your organization. Security teams can save hours of effort and drive more complete and thorough investigations via ARI’s intuitive interface and dashboards which provide them with easy to interpret data and the context needed to to quickly determine the who, what, and when during security investigations.

Help Ensure Compliance Status and Improve Security Posture

No matter where a company is based out of, or what industry they are in, there are no shortage of security and regulatory compliance standards they need to be aware of to ensure the safety of their business and customers. Industries can no longer be reactive in their approach to compliance and must embrace a more proactive and resilient stance to reduce data and privacy risks and ensure that all parts of the organization are aware of the role they need to play in keeping that data secure.

Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence empowers organizations to understand and improve their compliance and security posture with out-of-the-box and customizable dashboards and metrics. By leveraging key compliance framework controls, ARI provides a clear lens to proactively address assets that are missing critical security controls. No matter what regulatory frameworks you need to adhere to, ARI can help you identify and close gaps in security controls where you might be at risk and help your team quickly understand your overall compliance posture and pinpoint the key areas and assets that need to be addressed first and foremost.

We’re excited to see how organizations can grow and improve their own SOC of the Future with Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence. For the latest updates and info, be sure to visit the Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence Product Page and be sure to read our Essential Guide to Continuous and Asset Identity Intelligence to learn more about how ARI can help your security team enhance your organization's approach to digital resilience.