The Key Benefits from Splunk Attack Analyzer
Author: Ben Marrable
Release Date: 11/11/2024
Ever wondered what an attacker is trying to do? Or what the effect of clicking that obvious link in a phishing email will actually result in? Well you could click the link and find out, but I really wouldn’t recommend doing that as it would not be a great result. What if you could run it in a sandbox environment, that automates the entire process of analysing the attack for you, providing detailed analysis in easily understandable step by step processes?
Well let’s introduce you to Splunk Attack Analyzer, formerly known as Twinwave
Splunk Attack Analyzer automates threat analysis of suspected Malware and credential phishing threats, allowing you to interact with malicious content in a safe and secure manner. It will provide a full detailed analysis of the threat, with forensic level information of each step in the attack chain. Having these capabilities at the fingertips of your analysts, will uplevel your threat capabilities and save significant time for your Cyber Engineers to engineer controls against these threats in the future.
Naturally Splunk Attack Analyzer is tightly integrated with Splunk Enterprise Security and Splunk SOAR, strengthening your unified security operations. Integrations include; displaying threat analysis findings of urls within Enterprise Security Notable Events (Findings) and automating the scrutiny of URLS hidden in web traffic, among others.
Here are some of the key benefits to your organisation:
Enhanced Threat Detection
Automatic navigation of complex attack chains: Splunk Attack Analyzer can automatically follow the trail of breadcrumbs left by attackers, even through different delivery vectors and evasive techniques. This gives you a much clearer picture of the entire attack and helps you to identify the true scope of the threat.
Deeper analysis of malicious content: Splunk Attack Analyzer can safely detonate suspicious files and URLs in a sandboxed environment, extracting indicators of compromise (IOCs) and other valuable forensic data that can help you to track down the attackers and prevent future attacks.
Reduced reliance on manual investigation: Splunk Attack Analyzer automates many of the tedious tasks involved in threat investigation, such as collecting evidence, analysing malware and identifying the attackers intent. This frees up your security analysts to focus on more strategic tasks, such as developing incident response plans.
Improved Threat Response
Faster time to resolution: By automating the investigation process, Splunk Attack Analyzer can help you to identify and respond to threats much faster than traditional methods. This can help you to minimise the damage caused by an attack and prevent it from spreading.
More effective remediation: Splunk Attack Analyzer provides you with actionable insights that can help you to remediate threats more effectively. By fully understanding the attack in full, you can recover far quicker from the effects.
Overall, Splunk Attack Analyzer can help you to significantly improve your organisation's security posture by making it easier to analyse, and respond to threats.
