Good morning / afternoon, I am a cybersecurity professional who has been asked if there is a way to verify that splunk is capturing all the Windows Event logs. Currently the forwarder is configured to send all standard Windows log data to splunk. We utilize splunk to do domain and system cybersecurity event audits. I am confident my inputs.conf and splunk forwarders are configured properly, but essentially trust but verify that splunk is indexing the appropriate data. I know splunk is in use world wide and specifically in SOCs around the world. If one were asked to verify the data is infact whole is there a way to verify and test other than manually generating events and parsing both splunk and windows event viewer periodically to verify splunk is infact receiving all data. Obviously this could be a configuration but with such a high level of concern around cybersecurity I would assume that orgs need to trust the data in splunk is accurate, but how can I verify? Any tips?
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