https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-configure-Splunk-forwarder-to-encrypt-data/m-p/176866#M35491 <P>I have recently (yesterday) installed a new instance of Splunk on a VM.<BR />Another VM in a separate datacentre has the Splunk forwarder installed on it.</P> <P>Whilst the data being indexed isn't highly sensitive, I'd like to have the data encrypted anyway as it's passing over the public internet.</P> <P>What's the minimum/easiest/quickest way to get encryption up and running?</P> Fri, 09 Jun 2023 13:13:17 GMT plenderj 2023-06-09T13:13:17Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-configure-Splunk-forwarder-to-encrypt-data/m-p/176866#M35491 <P>I have recently (yesterday) installed a new instance of Splunk on a VM.<BR />Another VM in a separate datacentre has the Splunk forwarder installed on it.</P> <P>Whilst the data being indexed isn't highly sensitive, I'd like to have the data encrypted anyway as it's passing over the public internet.</P> <P>What's the minimum/easiest/quickest way to get encryption up and running?</P> Fri, 09 Jun 2023 13:13:17 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-configure-Splunk-forwarder-to-encrypt-data/m-p/176866#M35491 plenderj 2023-06-09T13:13:17Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-configure-Splunk-forwarder-to-encrypt-data/m-p/176867#M35492 <P>Hi plenderj,</P> <P>enable SSL communication between universal forwarder and indexer is the fastest and easiest way. Read more about it in the docs about <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Security/Aboutsecuringdatafromforwarders">About securing data from forwarders</A>.</P> <P>hope this helps ...</P> <P>cheers, MuS</P> Fri, 23 May 2014 10:04:52 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-configure-Splunk-forwarder-to-encrypt-data/m-p/176867#M35492 MuS 2014-05-23T10:04:52Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-configure-Splunk-forwarder-to-encrypt-data/m-p/176868#M35493 <P>Works like a charm <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Fri, 23 May 2014 10:24:53 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-configure-Splunk-forwarder-to-encrypt-data/m-p/176868#M35493 plenderj 2014-05-23T10:24:53Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-configure-Splunk-forwarder-to-encrypt-data/m-p/176869#M35494 <P>This link is now dead, found updated link:</P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Security/Aboutsecuringdatafromforwarders">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Security/Aboutsecuringdatafromforwarders</A> </P> Wed, 19 Apr 2017 14:50:46 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-configure-Splunk-forwarder-to-encrypt-data/m-p/176869#M35494 johnebgood 2017-04-19T14:50:46Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-configure-Splunk-forwarder-to-encrypt-data/m-p/176870#M35495 <P>Thanks for the new link. Over time and version changes, some Splunk doc links stopped working.</P> Wed, 19 Apr 2017 19:27:10 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-configure-Splunk-forwarder-to-encrypt-data/m-p/176870#M35495 MuS 2017-04-19T19:27:10Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-configure-Splunk-forwarder-to-encrypt-data/m-p/646440#M109954 <P>Update 2023-06-09</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>The latest link for data encryption from forwarder to indexer -&nbsp;<A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Security/ConfigureSplunkforwardingtousesignedcertificates" target="_blank">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Security/ConfigureSplunkforwardingtousesignedcertificates</A>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 09 Jun 2023 11:56:36 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-configure-Splunk-forwarder-to-encrypt-data/m-p/646440#M109954 VatsalJagani 2023-06-09T11:56:36Z