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Improve Your Security Posture

WhitneySink
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

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Improve Your Security Posture

Customers are at the center of everything we do at Splunk and security is our top priority. On top of a series of new and improved capabilities, Splunk platform now ships with an improved security posture. Splunk Enterprise 9.0 specifically includes three new security features, a series of automatically implemented security settings, and addresses eight security vulnerabilities with fixes that go deeper than just "patching." Splunk focused on intra-Splunk transport layer security (TLS), securing deployment server & forwarders, securing app development, and added search processing language (SPL) safeguard.

Watch the Tech Talk to learn about:

  • Get more details on our newest Security fixes and features, including Splunk Assist, Upgrade Readiness App Enhancements, and Smart Card Authentication
  • Learn how to address the eight security vulnerabilities for June 2022
  • Understand how you can leverage Splunk customer success resources to help ensure your environment is secure and up-to-date
WhitneySink
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
kkrises
Path Finder

@WhitneySink Thanks for the resource links. Is it possible to directly upgrade from 8.1.2 to 9.x version?

WhitneySink
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hi @kkrises - 

Apologies for the delay as I've been out on Summer Break.  I hope you are doing well!

YES!

Here is some information from our docs and please also reference the chart below:

Your current version First upgrade to latest available Then upgrade to latest available README link Rel. Notes link

7.0.x, 7.1.x, 7.2.x, 7.3.x8.0.x or 8.1.x9.0.x8.0 README,
8.1 README
8.0 Rel. Notes,
8.1 Rel. Notes
8.0.x8.1.x or 8.2.x9.0.x8.1 README,
8.2 README
8.1 Rel. Notes,
8.2 Rel. Notes
8.1.x, 8.2.x9.0.xN/A9.0 README9.0 Rel. Notes

 

Hope that helps!!

Thanks!

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