SPLK-5002 Exam Information and Outline
Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Engineer
SPLK-5002 Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Engineer (SPLK-5002)
- Data Engineering
- Perform effective data review and analysis.
- Create and maintain performant data indexing.
- Understand and apply Splunk methods of data normalization.
- Detection Engineering
- Create and tune detections (i.e. Correlation Search).
- Incorporate context into detections (i.e. Correlation Search).
- Understand and create risk-based modifiers and detections.
- Generate effective Notable Events/findings.
- Create and maintain a detection lifecycle.
- Building Effective Security Processes and Programs
- Research, incorporate and develop threat intelligence.
- Use common methodologies for risk and detection prioritization.
- Generate documentation and standard operating procedures.
- Automation and Efficiency
- Develop automation and orchestration for standard operating procedures.
- Optimize Case Management.
- Describe and utilize REST APIs.
- Automate responses using SOAR playbooks.
- Compare and validate integrations and automation capabilities of Enterprise Security and SOAR.
- Auditing and Reporting on Security Programs
- Develop and optimize security metrics.
- Build and populate effective security reports.
- Build and populate dashboards for program analytics