Add asset and identity data to Splunk Enterprise Security

Splunk Enterprise Security uses an asset and identity system to correlate asset and identity information with events to enrich and provide context to your data. This system takes information from external data sources to populate lookups, which Enterprise Security correlates with events at search time.

Add asset and identity data to Splunk Enterprise Security to take advantage of asset and identity correlation.

1. Collect and extract asset and identity data in Splunk Enterprise Security.
2. (Optional) Define identity formats on the identity configuration page in Splunk Enterprise Security.
3. Format the asset or identity list as a lookup in Splunk Enterprise Security.
4. Configure a new asset or identity list in Splunk Enterprise Security.
5. Verify that your asset or identity data was added to Splunk Enterprise Security.
6. Configure asset and identity correlation in Splunk Enterprise Security.

See also

How Splunk Enterprise Security correlates, processes, and merges asset and identity data

Lookups that store merged asset and identity data