Deployment Architecture

FortiGate Add-On for Splunk logs encrypted passwords?

guarisma
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We are seeing logs like this that might contain a base64 encoded encrypted password and we would like to know if this is a risk of leaving this in Splunk since we don't know how strong this encryption is, and if possible to remove it from the source or should we make a filter in a transforms to discard this information

Dec  9 15:54:07 10.X.Y.Z date=2020-12-09 time=15:54:08 devname="FORTIGATE" devid="FG100" logid="0100044547" type="event" subtype="system" level="information" vd="root" eventtime=1607547248698893780 tz="-0500" logdesc="Object attribute configured" user="admin" ui="GUI(10.X.Y.Z)" action="Add" cfgtid=10289326 cfgpath="user.local" cfgobj="USER" cfgattr="type[password]passwd[ENC JcB/fAvi7lxawB9OqPN2t8WE4MnLXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXvmv1EMRzPZPdMAhWppDbaqNyr1tGx5eDmxg==]" msg="Add user.local USER"

 

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