Investigation And Risk Management

When calculating a risk score using the 'sum' aggregation method, what happens if multiple risk events for the same object occur within the same time window?

A security analyst needs to adjust the weight of a specific risk rule. Where should this configuration be modified?

During an investigation, you need to group related notables into a single investigation container. Which feature should you use?

A customer wants to exclude certain low-fidelity risk events from their Risk Notable correlation search. Where is the best place to define these exclusions?

When investigating a risk notable, which dashboard in Splunk ES provides a visual representation of the risk contributors for a specific user?

In the context of Splunk ES, what is an 'Asset'?

What is the primary function of the 'Risk Notable' correlation search in Splunk ES?

When configuring the 'Risk Analysis' adaptive response, what does the 'risk_score' parameter represent?

An analyst is investigating an incident where a user's risk score spiked significantly. Which investigative tool allows the analyst to see the timeline of all contributing risk events?

An analyst needs to manually add an event to an existing case in Splunk ES. What is the correct procedure?

Which component in Splunk ES is used to manage the lifecycle of an incident, including status updates and assignments?

Which data model does the Risk Analysis adaptive response action typically rely upon to enrich events?

A correlation search is failing to generate risk events. You check the 'Search Activity' and see that the search is running but returning 0 results. What is the most likely cause?

What is the benefit of using the Asset and Identity framework in Splunk ES investigations?

When investigating a case, where should an analyst document their findings to ensure they are available to other team members?

You notice that the risk score for an asset is not decaying. Which configuration controls the risk score lifespan?

What is the purpose of the 'Investigation Workbench' in Splunk ES?

Which of the following is a primary benefit of Risk-Based Alerting (RBA) over traditional alerting?

When configuring an 'Adaptive Response' action, what does the 'Notable' action type do?

In the Incident Review dashboard, what does 'Status' represent?

Which THREE features are provided by the Splunk ES Incident Review dashboard?

When reviewing an incident, how can an analyst verify if the notable event was generated by a specific correlation search?

Which THREE pieces of information are commonly found in a Splunk ES Case?

Which TWO methods can be used to suppress unwanted notable events?

If an analyst needs to modify the default retention for the 'risk' index, where should they make this change?

Which TWO of the following are key components of a successful incident investigation workflow in Splunk ES?

Which TWO actions can be taken on a notable event directly from the Incident Review dashboard?

Which TWO types of data are commonly enriched by the Asset and Identity framework?

Which TWO factors influence an object's final risk score in Splunk ES?

Which THREE actions are part of the 'Incident Review' investigation workflow?

Which TWO metrics are tracked in the 'Incident Review' dashboard's 'Notable Event' list?

Which THREE settings can be configured within the 'Risk Analysis' adaptive response action?

Which TWO areas of the Splunk ES environment are used to manage risk-based alerting configurations?

A SOC analyst is reviewing a notable event in Splunk Enterprise Security that was generated from a correlation search firing against a risk index. The analyst wants to see the individual risk events that contributed to the notable's risk score, including the contributing risk rules and their individual risk scores. Which action should the analyst take?

An analyst is reviewing a notables queue in Splunk Enterprise Security and wants to understand why a particular correlation search generated a high-severity finding. The analyst opens the finding in Incident Review and notices the severity is set to 'high', but the contributing risk score is only 40. Which component of the correlation search configuration most directly determines the severity displayed on the finding?

A SOC analyst is building a risk-based alerting workflow and wants to ensure that a specific risk rule only contributes to an entity's risk score when the entity is a user account, not a system or IP address. Which configuration in the risk rule's search definition accomplishes this?

A security analyst receives a notable event about suspicious PowerShell execution on a workstation. To gather more context, the analyst wants to see all events related to the involved host from the last 24 hours in a single view. Which Splunk ES feature provides this consolidated timeline of activity for an entity?

A SOC analyst is reviewing a notable event for a suspected compromised host. The analyst wants to enrich the investigation by viewing the raw event that triggered the detection, along with the associated risk events and threat intelligence matches, directly from the notable event in Splunk Enterprise Security. Which feature should the analyst use to access this consolidated context?

A risk analyst notices that a particular risk rule is generating an excessive number of risk events for low-severity activities, causing alert fatigue. The analyst wants to reduce the impact of this rule on overall risk scores without disabling it entirely. What is the most appropriate action?

A SOC manager is defining a new risk-based alerting strategy and wants to ensure that risk events generated by correlation searches are properly attributed and actionable. Which TWO fields are required in a risk event for the Risk Analysis framework to correctly associate risk with an entity and contribute to its score? (Choose two.)

A security analyst is documenting the key phases of a Splunk Enterprise Security investigation workflow for a new team member. Which two phases are essential components of this workflow? (Choose two.)

A junior analyst is asked to find all risk events associated with a specific user account to assess potential insider threat activity. Which search command should the analyst use to retrieve these risk events from the risk index?

A SOC analyst is reviewing a notables list in Splunk Enterprise Security and wants to see the individual risk events that contributed to a specific notable's risk score. The analyst opens the notable's detail view and looks for a way to pivot directly to the contributing risk events. Which action should the analyst take?

An analyst is building a risk rule that assigns a risk score to a user based on the number of failed authentication attempts observed in a 10-minute window. The analyst wants the risk score to increase proportionally with the number of failures, but also wants to avoid generating excessive risk events for every single failure. Which approach best meets these requirements?

A SOC analyst is reviewing an investigation in Splunk Enterprise Security and wants to determine whether a specific threat intelligence indicator has been observed in the environment over the past 90 days. Which investigation technique best supports this requirement?

A Splunk ES analyst is tuning a correlation search that generates a large number of false positives. The analyst wants to reduce noise without disabling the search entirely. The search currently uses a risk rule that assigns a risk score of 20 to each matching event. Which approach best aligns with risk-based alerting best practices?

A risk analyst notices that a user account accumulated a high risk score from multiple contributing risk events, but the score does not reflect the expected sum of the individual risk rule weights. Which factor most likely explains the discrepancy?

A SOC manager is defining a new risk-based alerting (RBA) strategy in Splunk Enterprise Security. The manager wants to ensure that risk events are properly attributed to the correct entities so that risk scores aggregate accurately. Which two actions should the manager take when configuring risk rules? (Choose two.)

A security analyst is documenting the lifecycle of an investigation in Splunk Enterprise Security. Which statement accurately describes how cases and notables relate within that lifecycle?

An analyst is investigating a notable event in Splunk ES and needs to determine which correlation search generated it and what risk objects contributed to its creation. Which Splunk ES feature provides this information directly from the notable event?

A SOC manager is defining requirements for a new detection that should contribute to an entity's risk profile in Splunk Enterprise Security. Which TWO characteristics must the detection have to properly contribute risk to an entity? (Choose two.)

A security analyst is investigating a notable in Splunk ES and needs to determine the potential impact of the threat. The analyst wants to correlate the risk object with asset and identity data to understand the criticality of the affected system and the user's role. Which two actions should the analyst take to enrich the investigation with asset and identity context? (Choose two.)

A SOC manager wants to review the overall risk posture of the organization by examining the highest-risk users and systems over the past week. Which Splunk Enterprise Security dashboard provides this aggregated view of risk objects and their scores?

During an investigation, an analyst needs to correlate a series of authentication failures with subsequent successful logins from the same source across multiple indexers. Which Splunk Enterprise Security capability is most appropriate for this task?

During an investigation, an analyst determines that a user's risk score is inflated because a single risk rule is firing repeatedly on benign activity. The analyst wants to reduce the impact of this rule on the user's overall risk score without disabling the rule entirely. What is the most appropriate action?

A SOC manager wants to ensure that when a notable event is reviewed and closed, the analyst's disposition and any supporting evidence are preserved for audit purposes. Which Splunk ES feature should the manager use to capture this information?