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Splunk UBA Data Source for Excessive Data Transmission

JK42
Explorer

Hello all,

We have Splunk UBA and I'm trying to figure out some things. For the Excessive Data Transmission anomaly, I am showing the input as my Checkpoint firewall logs. It seems to be working as I get anomalies triggering.

My question is, where is UBA getting the amount of data transferred? When I look at the firewall logs themselves (both in the firewall log server and on Splunk) there doesn't seem to be any data relating to amount of data transferred.

Thanks

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lakshman239
Influencer

There are a number of models within UBA which feed data to 'Excessive Data Transmission' Anomaly. You can verify the same in your env/configuration by going to "System" -> Data Availability and choose Excessive data transmission. This will show all your data sources involved/configured and you can then work backwards to see which of them have bytes, as this will be used for amount of transfer.

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cmeisch
Path Finder

I have it coming in from various sources (not just FW). But if I had to guess it correlates the source to dest information and the data that is transferred within that session.

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