First, new to splunk, learning as I go. Oh, BTW, I'm the splunk 'person' now in my org. Trying to figure out how to get MS Azure Gov into splunk securely. Yay! In preparation for this, I have decide...
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First, new to splunk, learning as I go. Oh, BTW, I'm the splunk 'person' now in my org. Trying to figure out how to get MS Azure Gov into splunk securely. Yay! In preparation for this, I have decided to see about the MS Security Graph app and where it should be installed. Ok, so today I learned that "Splunk recommends installing Splunk-supported add-ons across your entire Splunk platform deployment, then enabling and configuring inputs only where they are required" and " you can install any add-on to all tiers of your Splunk platform architecture – search tier, indexer tier, forwarder tier – without any negative impact." Which I got those from the splunk doc site: Where to install Splunk add-ons - Splunk Documentation Our architecture looks ad-hoc more than anything. We have apps on a search head but not on others, we have apps on 1 or 2 indexers but not the rest. That's just the apps from splunkbase. So now I have this task to create a spreadsheet of which instances have what apps so that I may streamline and make it so across the board. Question 1: Is it truly best to install an app on all instances, across all tiers? Example, a forensic investigator tool that really only interacts with the splunk portal for (a search head), does it really need to be on forwarders and the indexers? Question 2: Is there a way to export the list of apps installed on a splunk instance. This is so i can make an easy spreadsheet of what server has what app and then start the task of ensuring that app is spread across the board. Question 3a: Do I really need all of the MS add-ons? Microsoft Graph Security API add-on for Splunk, Microsoft Sysmon Add-on, Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Windows, Splunk Add-on for PowerShell, TA-microsoft-sysmon_inputs? Question 3b: I don't really see others that I would have thought would be good like Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Security (by Splunk), Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Office 365 (by splunk), and others. Would it be beneficial to have those? Question 4: Anyone have experience, do's and don'ts for the Microsoft Graph Security API add-on for Splunk? I have been told this is the app to install and configure to ensure Azure Gov data is brought into splunk securely.