New to Cybersecurity? Here’s how to use your first SIEM | Learn with HTB
How to learn Splunk fast with real-world SOC and blue team examples 🔍
In this episode of Learn with Hack The Box, our host @CyberStudies dives headfirst into Splunk essentials and shows you how to use a SIEM in a real SOC environment.
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What you'll learn:
Using hands-on examples from the Splunk BOTS v3 dataset, you’ll learn how to craft SPL searches, investigate security events, identify attack patterns, and respond faster with confidence.
• How Splunk architecture, indexing, and data flow work
• How to write and understand SPL with real examples
• How to identify failed and successful logons, brute-force attempts, and noisy activity
• How to visualize security data for threat hunting and reporting
• How to investigate real attacks using the BOTS v3 dataset
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We highly recommend the Investigating with Splunk, Understanding Log Sources, and Threat Hunting Fundamentals modules for hands-on learning.
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