Splunk Security Essentials -Master Splunk, SIEM & SOC Skills

Learn Splunk Security Essentials to master SIEM dashboards, SOC workflows & real-world cybesecurity monitoring skills

What you'll learn
- Foundations of SIEM & SSE: Understanding the purpose, scope, and use cases of Splunk Security Essentials.
- Data preparation and CIM: The logic behind the Common Information Model, why Data Model Acceleration is needed, and its impact on speed and performance.
- Key data models such as Authentication, Intrusion Detection, Malware, and Network Traffic.
- Data sources & Add-ons: How to integrate Windows, Sysmon, Firewall/IDS, and Unix/Linux data sources with SSE using CIM-compatible add-ons.
- Security visibility through dashboards
- Security Posture / Executive View: 24-hour overview, attack origins, user and device protection metrics.
- Continuous Monitoring – Windows Access & Changes / All Authentications: Successful/failed logins, account changes, activity maps, and time-series analysis.
- Firewall & Network Traffic: Blocked/allowed connections, protocol usage, application-based breakdown, and top source-destination pairs.
- Intrusion Detection & Malware: Signature-based alerts, severity levels, most frequent malware, and infected hosts.
- Access & Network Anomalies: Brute force attempts, geographically impossible logins, suspected C2 communications, and DNS/SMB anomalies.
- Behind the dashboards – SPL & performance: Using tstats vs. stats, summary indexes, and reading the underlying searches (“Open in Search”).
- Investigation workflows: User and host investigation dashboards, source-destination insights, and action/time distributions for fast triage.
- Alerting and reporting practices: Building alerts from dashboards, setting thresholds, reducing false positives, and creating executive summary reports.
- Best practices: Indexing and retention strategies, proper tagging and sourcetypes, and maintaining healthy SSE dashboards.

Requirements
- No prior Splunk knowledge required, though a basic understanding of SIEM concepts is helpful.
- A working computer with 8 GB RAM or higher and a stable internet connection.
- Basic familiarity with search logic or regex (will be introduced during the course with examples).
- Ability to install and navigate the Splunk interface and apps.
- Most importantly: curiosity, consistency, and the desire to explore security analytics hands-on.

Description
Welcome to the"Splunk Security Essentials - Master Splunk, SIEM & SOC Skill"course!Learn Splunk Security Essentials to master SIEM dashboards, SOC workflows & real-world cybesecurity monitoring skills

Splunk Security Essentials is a powerful free app built on Splunk Enterprise that helps you practiceSIEM use cases, incident detection, and security analyticsin a structured and easy-to-learn way. With SSE, you don’t just collect logs — you transform them into actionable insights using dashboards, visualizations, and automated queries.

This course is designed to guide you step by step, from the fundamentals of SSE dashboards all the way toinvestigation workflows, brute-force detection, anomaly analysis, and reporting.Whether you’re a beginner in cybersecurity or an experienced SOC analyst looking to sharpen your skills, this course will give you practical, hands-on experience.

Become a SOC-ready analyst with our Splunk Security Essentials (SSE) course! Learn how to set up data sources, explore prebuilt dashboards, investigate incidents, and build alerts like a real-world SOC professional. Throughexamples, diagrams, and live demonstrations, you’ll practice the exact workflows used by security teams every day.

In this course you will learn:

How to set upSplunk Security Essentialsand configure data sources

The most importantSSE dashboards and panelsfor security monitoring

How to analyzeWindows logins, failed attempts, and privilege escalation

How to monitorfirewall activity, network traffic, and intrusion attempts

How to detectbrute-force attacks, malware infections, and anomalies

How to performUser and Host Investigationswith SSE investigation panels

How to useSPL queries (tstats, stats, etc.)behind the dashboards

How to buildalerts and reportsdirectly from SSE content

What is Splunk Security Essentials (SSE)?Splunk Security Essentials is a free Splunk app that provides hundreds of prebuiltsecurity use cases and dashboards. It allows SOC analysts, IT admins, and security engineers to detect threats faster and learn SIEM practices without starting from scratch. SSE leverages Splunk’sCommon Information Model (CIM)to display authentication events, firewall logs, intrusion attempts, malware alerts, and anomalies in real time.

With SSE, you can quickly:

Detect unusual login activity

Track brute force attempts

Monitor malware activity and signatures

Investigate suspicious users, hosts, or IPs

Visualize firewall and network traffic patterns

Is Splunk Security Essentials easy to learn?Yes! Unlike many enterprise SIEMs that require complex setup, SSE comes withready-to-use dashboardsthat make it beginner-friendly. All you need is:

Basic computer skills

Curiosity about cybersecurity

Willingness to explore dashboards and practice hands-on exercises

Why is SSE valuable in cybersecurity?Cybersecurity is evolving rapidly, with new threats emerging daily. Splunk SSE allows you to practiceup-to-date use casesand follow the latest SOC trends. You’ll gain real-world skills directly applicable to incident detection, monitoring, and threat hunting.

Why would you want to take this course?

Our answer is simple: The quality of teaching

OAK Academy, based in London, is an online education company that offers courses in IT, Software, Design, and Development in Turkish, English, and Portuguese. The academy provides over 4,000 hours of video lessons on the Udemy platform.

When you enroll, you will feel the OAK Academy`s seasoned developers' expertise.

Our course is designed to equip you with the knowledge and hands-on experience you need to pass the Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin exam. Here's why this course stands out:

Comprehensive Content: From setting up SSE to advanced investigation workflows

Real-World Skills: Practice SOC workflows, dashboards, and detections with real examples

Hands-On Learning: Build alerts, run queries, and investigate real-world scenarios

Video and Audio Production Quality

All our content is created/produced ashigh-quality video/audioto provide you the best learning experience.

You will be,

Seeing clearly

Hearing clearly

Moving through the course without distractions

You'll also get:

Lifetime Access to The Course

Fast & Friendly Support in the Q&A section

Udemy Certificate of Completion Ready for Download

Dive in now into the"Splunk Security Essentials | Master Splunk, SIEM & SOC Skill"course!Learn Splunk Security Essentials to master SIEM dashboards, SOC workflows & real-world cybesecurity monitoring skills

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Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to learn Splunk Security Essentials from scratch.
- Programmers, IT professionals, and SOC analysts interested in monitoring and investigating security events with Splunk.
- Career changers who want to transition into cybersecurity and SOC roles.
- Beginners with no prior Splunk or SIEM experience but with a curious mindset.
- Security professionals looking to understand the fastest way to apply a SIEM tool using prebuilt content.
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