This app is End of Life and will not be updated. All of the content has been migrated to Splunk Security Essentials – please switch to that app. Splunk Security Essentials for Ransomware is an app designed to help Splunk software users manage their risk and response to WannaCry and similar types of ransomware. The app provides you a starting point that you can customize to work in your specific environment. Splunk Security Essentials for Ransomware includes more than a dozen use cases that allow you to measure how effectively you are reducing the risk of WannaCry and similar exploits, as well as searches which can help detect the effects of ransomware within your enterprise. This app uses Splunk Enterprise and the Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) to showcase working examples of detection and best practices to be employed in your environment to prevent ransomware infections.