Building a Splunk Dashboard for pfSense

After installing my pfSense firewall a couple of months ago, I have been wanting to get a nice dashboard built in Splunk. I will be building on the Snort configuration found in my last blog reviewing the Netgate-1100. (See Here) In this blog I show how to install and configure the pfSense Splunk application “TA-pfSense” …

Building a Splunk Dashboard for OpenVPN

Recently, I have started tinkering with Splunk dashboards and thought about systems or applications I would want to monitor from a “single pane of glass”. OpenVPN is my first thought due to the importance and wide use in the community. My OpenVPN build is on a CentOS 7 VM, so I will be using the …

Splunk Core Certified User Certification – Review

I work in information security and I enjoy everything SIEM related so learning Splunk was a no-brainer for me. Splunk has so many applications that almost any environment can benefit from a Splunk deployment. Whether you are using it as a log management system or creating dashboards for data analytics, Splunk provides a nice framework …