Splunk Enterprise Security

ES search head notable events for zscaler have signature "None"

ravikiranradhak
New Member

Hi All,

We're getting a number of notable events through originating from zscaler that have a signature of "None". From looking at the props.conf, I see there are two aliases resulting in signature.

FIELDALIAS-aob_gen_zscalernss_web_alias_4 = threatname AS signature
FIELDALIAS-dlpdictionaries_as_signature = dlpdictionaries AS signature

If 100% of events have signature="None" then can FIELDALIAS-dlpdictionaries_as_signature be disabled?

Looks like there are two aliases for category field as well:
FIELDALIAS-threatcategory_as_category = threatcategory AS category
FIELDALIAS-urlcategory_as_category = urlcategory AS category

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jawaharas
Motivator

Based on your response (Threatname field has non-NONE values. But all the values in dlpdictionaries has NONE value.), it makes sense now.

FIELDALIAS-aob_gen_zscalernss_web_alias_4 = threatname AS signature
FIELDALIAS-dlpdictionaries_as_signature = dlpdictionaries AS signature

As per the above sequence in your props.conf, 'dlpdictionaries' NONE value overwrites the NON-NONE values of 'threatname' field.

Based on your use-case, you can either reverses the oder of FIELDALIAS configuration as below or you can use different FIELDALIAS name (as you figured it out).

FIELDALIAS-dlpdictionaries_as_signature = dlpdictionaries AS signature
FIELDALIAS-aob_gen_zscalernss_web_alias_4 = threatname AS signature
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jawaharas
Motivator

Does the log event has values for dlpdictionaries and threatname fields? Or can you post sample log event and your props.conf file for 'Zscaler Splunk App'?

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ravikiranradhak
New Member

@jawaharas : Threatname field has non NONE values. But all the values in dlpdictionaries has NONE value. We are using default props.conf from the app itself. Though after rename alias name for dlpdictionaries to some other name, we can see values in signature field populates non None values from threatnanme field.

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