Does Splunk support FIPS 140-2

[matt]

Is splunk FIPS 140-2 compliant?

[tf_jbassford]

As of version 6.3.0 of Splunk and Splunkforwarder, has Splunk Inc, gotten accreditation from NIST?

On the latest version of Splunk 6.3.0 I do see that Splunk Inc. integrated the openssl FIPS object Model for the openssl that is included with splunk, and I see that there are still statements that you cannot migrate an existing non-fips splunk to a fips-complaint splunk can someone elaborate on the details of why that migration path is NOT supported (IE: are the indexes encrypted with non fips algrorythms?, or is it just a matter of ssl cert creations that meet FIPS standards?)

[ChrisG · Accepted solution]

Splunk Enterprise 6 includes an OpenSSL FIPS module; see About FIPS in the Securing Splunk manual.

Note that upgrading a non-FIPS install to FIPS is not supported by Splunk – you must decide to use FIPS when your first install the product.

[araitz]

Splunk (the software) has not been submitted for FIPS 140-2 accreditation. At this time, there are no plans that I am aware of to engage in the accreditation process.

Splunk uses OpenSSL shared libraries for all encryption, and according to openssl.org, OpenSSL will never be FIPS-140-2 validated/accredited:

http://www.openssl.org/docs/fips/fipsnotes.html

Furthermore, Splunk does not use the OpenSSL FIPS Object Model, which has been uniquely validated as FIPS-140-2 compliant. At this time, we do not anticipate moving to the OpenSSL FIPS Object Model because of compatibility and portability reasons.

[jrodman]

This answer was indeed correct when provided in 2011 for Splunk 4.x.

[dmlee]

Hi Araitz,
could you explain more detail about "we do not anticipate moving to the OpenSSL FIPS Object Model because of compatibility and portability reasons" ? thanks