Splunk at RSAC 2024: Powering the SOC of the Future

Security leaders are essential to helping organizations achieve digital resilience. As a result, a recent survey found that building a SecOps strategy that helps to achieve digital resilience is factored in more today than it did 12 months ago for security leaders. In today’s digital era, the volume and sophistication of attacks are escalating across an expanded attack surface, requiring organizations to rethink how they improve the efficacy and efficiency of SecOps. 

This is driving the need for organizations to evolve towards the SOC of the future, where they must factor in a decentralized approach to data together with a more agile, intelligent and integrated approach to security. The goal is to foster highly collaborative and proactive SecOps with a technology foundation that balances people and process elements.

Here are some key solution capabilities that are critical to a successful platform helping organizations achieve the SOC of the future.

A Federated Approach to Data

The SOC of the future must continue to tackle security as a data problem to mitigate cyber risk across decentralized and diverse data sources effectively. Utilizing data from any source, not only from security tools, is essential so that no “weak signals” are lost. All types of data can contain clues of advanced attacks, so performing real-time monitoring and analysis is critical. But how do you do this as organizational data becomes more decentralized?   

The SOC of the future must effectively deal with decentralized data by deploying a federated approach to data to ensure complete visibility and attack-surface coverage. Security teams must be able to extend the same rich capabilities to investigate, detect and correlate data no matter where it resides. Federation will supercharge your security team to more effectively detect and respond to threats by accessing the right data at the right time. In addition, a federated approach will support critical storage tiering strategies that will help to build a cost effective way for the SOC of the future to utilize data.

Unified Security Operations at the Core

At the heart of building an advanced, modern SOC is the unification of detection, investigation and automated response workflows for speed and efficiency. Of course, this seamless workflow needs to be tightly integrated with AI technologies to help further accelerate the analyst experience.  

This goes by an acronym you may be familiar with: TDIR (Threat Detection, Investigation and Response). The purpose is to deliver a core foundational solution for the SOC of the future by breaking down silos across detection, investigation and response to help detect even the most sophisticated attacks. Enhanced visibility and more accurate detection are coupled with a streamlined process for investigating and responding to incidents to reduce the risk of a successful breach. The coordinated effort across detection, investigation and response not only speeds up the response process, but also reduces complexity and manual efforts that are still all too common.  

A unified TDIR solution needs to be at the core of the SOC of the future as it will give security teams the foundation of visibility, detection, investigation, automated response and compliance coverage to identify and contain risk before widespread damage occurs. 

Enable Innovation Together

Driving continued innovation is critical for security teams looking to evolve to the SOC of the future. However, innovating can be challenging when dealing with security tools that lack customization, extensibility, and an open ecosystem. We all painfully know that adding more people to solve the lack of innovation is not an option. Security tools that offer a vibrant user community and extensive ecosystem are better positioned to optimize security use cases for your environment. 

Moreover, in some instances, you may need some customization to tailor a solution to your particular need. In that case, the SOC of the future must offer the ability to customize what you need to meet your organization’s unique security needs without restrictions. These capabilities often act as a force multiplier for SecOps teams to strengthen their defensive posture against the latest threats. 

Showcasing the Future at RSAC 2024

At its core, Splunk’s security product portfolio has been designed to meet the evolving needs of the SOC of the future. The end result of a Splunk powered SOC is a resilient and efficient SOC capable of countering not just today’s cyber threats, but also the cyber threats of the future. 

And, as part of Cisco, together we will deliver a complete solution for threat prevention, detection, investigation and response. Cisco’s data sources and threat intelligence perfectly match Splunk’s scalable security analytics and response capabilities. This game-changing combination will improve the efficacy, efficiency and economics of defending against modern security threats. Our combined capabilities will revolutionize how customers build resilience across their entire digital footprint.  

Visit us at RSAC and see how we can help you evolve to the SOC of the future. Splunk is proud to be a Platinum Plus sponsor at RSAC 2024 where we will be showcasing how our security solutions are pivotal in building the SOC of the future. Be sure to explore all of the ways to engage with Splunk at RSA Conference 2024. Some of the highlights are: 

• A keynote from Cisco Executive Vice President, General Manager for Security and Collaboration, Jeetu Patel, on Monday, May 6, 4:10 pm - 4:30 pm PT
• A keynote from Splunk Executive Vice President, General Manager, Gary Steele, on Wednesday, May 8, 11:10 am - 11:30 am PT
• A speaking session focused on Threat Hunting with David Bianco, Security Strategist, SURGe, Splunk, on Monday, May 6 at 8:30 am PT
• A speaking session about Detection Engineering with Jose Hernandez, Director, Splunk Threat Research Team and Eric McGinnis, Senior Threat Researcher, Splunk, on Thursday, May 9 at 9:40 am PT
• Demos, presentations from security experts and Splunk partners along with hands on experience with Splunk SOAR playing Automation Defender at Booth N-5457
• Testing your skills against the top Splunk security experts at Boss of the SOC (BOTS)
• OCSF Breakfast, May 8, 7:30 - 9:30 am, Intercontinental
• Join us for happy hours and other special events hosted by Splunk
• Visit Cisco booth N-5845 and S-926 to learn how you can get powerful security across all your networks, cloud and endpoints and email to protect everything that matters, from anywhere.