Splunk® Enterprise Security

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Release notes for Splunk Enterprise Security

This version of Splunk Enterprise Security is compatible only with specific versions of the Splunk platform. See Splunk Enterprise system requirements in the Installation and Upgrade Manual.

Because the navigation now respects your local changes, you might need to make changes to the navigation menu bar after upgrading. See Configure > General > Navigation to see which views are upgraded, new, or deprecated.

Current versions of Splunk Enterprise Security only support TAXII version 1.0 and TAXII version 1.1.

What's new

Splunk Enterprise Security version 7.0.0 includes the following enhancements:

New features or behavior changes

Following is a list of new features and behavior changes:

New Feature or Enhancement Description
Ability to switch between UI modes Splunk Enterprise Security UI allows you to switch between light and dark modes. The Dark mode is enabled by default when you install Splunk Enterprise Security 7.0 on Splunk Cloud Platform version 8.2.2109 or higher. The dark mode option is not yet available for Splunk Enterprise. For more information, see Change the UI theme.
Executive Security Management Metrics dashboards Executives or SOC managers can use the Executive Security dashboards to get a high level insight into security operations and evaluate security trends over time based on key metrics, notables, risks, and other additional metrics so that they can prioritize security operations and monitor the overall health of the SOC. See Executive Summary dashboards.
Automated updates for the Splunk ES Content Update (ESCU) app When new security content is available, the update process is built into Splunk Enterprise Security so that ES admins always have the latest security content from the Splunk Security Research Team. See Update the Analytic Stories.
Python3 and MLTK 5.x upgrade impact MLTK models created by MLTK versions 5.2.2 and lower and packaged with Enterprise Security 7.0 are not compatible with MLTK versions 5.3.0 or higher. Therefore, you need to regenerate the MLTK models and re-run the MLTK searches when upgrading MLTK and Python Scientific App (PSC) to versions 5.3 and 3.0. Regenerating the models might take time to complete. You can regenerate the MLTK models manually or wait for Enterprise Security to start generating the models on the default schedule. The correlation search results may be inaccurate until the models have been regenerated. For more information, see Python 3 and MLTK 5.x upgrade notes.
New Splunk Enterprise Security use cases Use the following use cases that leverage various features of Splunk Enterprise Security to identify threat and reduce alert volume in your security organizations:
Visualizations of your Cloud security environment using new GDI dashboards You must install and configure Splunk Add-on for Amazon Kinesis Firehose and Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Office 365 from Splunkbase to onboard Cloud data sources and explore your Cloud Security environment using Cloud Security dashboards. For more information on installing and configuring the required TA add-ons, see

Prerequisites to use Cloud Security dashboards.
Explore your Cloud Security environment by displaying visualizations of your Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft 365 environments using the Cloud Security dashboards. You can access the dashboards through the Cloud Security menu and use them for insights into potential security issues such as errors, unusual events, unintended access, and suspicious activity.

Deprecated or removed features

Following is a list of deprecated or removed features in Enterprise Security:

Deprecated Feature Comments
No support for sending notable events from Splunk Enterprise Security to Splunk UBA Support for sending notable events from Splunk ES to Splunk UBA will be removed in a future release. Configure a Splunk ES Notables data source or use Splunk Direct to pull notable events from Splunk ES to Splunk UBA. See Pull notable events from Splunk ES to Splunk UBA.
No browser support for Internet Explorer Browser support for Internet Explorer 11 is no longer available in Enterprise Security version 6.6.0 or higher.
No support for glass tables Glass tables are no longer available in Enterprise Security version 6.6.0 or higher. A comparable feature called Dashboard Studio is available in the Splunk platform. See What is the Splunk Dashboard Studio? in the Splunk Cloud Platform Splunk Dashboard Studio manual and What is the Splunk Dashboard Studio? in the Splunk Enterprise Splunk Dashboard Studio manual. Do not upgrade to ES 6.6.0 or higher if you need to continue using Glass Tables.
Extreme Search (Splunk_SA_ExtremeSearch) macros removed The following Extreme Search macros that were previously deprecated are removed as of Enterprise Security version 6.6.0: [xs_default_direction_concepts], [xs_default_magnitude_concepts], and [xs_default_change_concepts]
No support for Malware Domains threatlist The Malware Domains threatlist is not supported in Enterprise security version 6.5.0 or higher.
Domain Dossier is removed from Enterprise Security Domain Dossier is not available in Enterprise Security 6.5.0 or higher.
Option to search with Google within the ES application may pose inherent security risks as it may direct you to third party websites. Option to search with Google is not available in Enterprise Security 6.5.0 or higher.
The master_host settings for Identity Manager and Intelligence Downloads in search head pooling Settings are obsolete for Enterprise Security 6.3.0 and higher.
Bundled technology add-ons in the ES installer. See Add-ons. Bundled technology add-ons are not included in Enterprise Security 6.2.0 and higher.
Compatibility with Python 2 and Machine Learning Toolkit 4.0. Enterprise Security 6.1.x is compatible with Python 3 only.

Enterprise Security 6.1.x release is compatible with Splunk Enterprise versions that ship with only Python 3 interpreter and MLTK 5.0 and higher.

Splunk Add-on for Tenable and Splunk_TA_nessus These add-ons are removed from the ES installer.
Threat intelligence sample files These threat intelligence sample files are removed from DA-ESS-ThreatIntelligence/default/data/threat_intel/: Appendix_D_FQDNs.xml, Appendix_F_SSLCertificates.xml, Appendix_G_IOCs_No_OpenIOC.xml, fireeye-pivy-report-with-indicators.xml, and Mandiant_APT1_Report.xml
Setting that enables SSL for Splunk Web A system setting that is not enabled and disabled by the Enterprise Security app.
The luhn_lookup custom lookup script for detecting personally identifiable credit card information Enterprise Security uses luhn_lite_lookup instead of luhn_lookup.
The getcron search command join my_saved_search_name [| rest splunk_server=local count=0 /services/saved/searches | table title,cron_schedule | rename title as my_saved_search_name, cron_schedule as cron] instead of the search command:
| getcron inputField=my_saved_search_name outputField=cron.
Audit dashboard for content profile Use Content Management data model row expansion instead of using Audit dashboard for content profile. See Expand Content Management searches to view dependency and usage information in Splunk Enterprise Security.
Lookup generating search for Traffic Volume Tracker Removing this search resolves issues with exporting all objects in Content Management.
Automatic (continuous) creation and deployment of the "indexer package" (Splunk_TA_ForIndexers) to the Indexer tier via deployment server proxy feature See Deploy add-ons to indexers.
The notable_adhoc_invocations macro in the SA-ThreatIntelligence app Use the incident review saved search to fix ad-hoc alerts on sequenced events instead.
Alexa Top 1 Million Sites See Included generic intelligence sources for alternatives.

End of support schedule

Refer to Splunk Support Policy to verify the end of support date for your Enterprise Security version.

Add-ons

Technology-specific add-ons are supported differently than the add-ons that make up the Splunk Enterprise Security framework. For more information on the support provided for add-ons, see Support for Splunk Enterprise Security and provided add-ons in the Release Notes manual.

Deprecated or removed add-ons

Splunk Enterprise Security no longer includes many of the technology add-ons in the Splunk Enterprise Security package. Instead, you can download the technology add-ons that you need directly from Splunkbase. This change improves the performance of Splunk ES by reducing the number of unnecessary enabled add-ons, and allows you to install the most appropriate and updated versions of add-ons when you install Splunk ES.

The following technology add-ons are removed from the installer, but still supported:

The following technology add-ons are removed from the installer, supported for the next year, but are deprecated and will reach end of support one year from the release date of this Enterprise Security version:

  • TA-airdefense
  • TA-alcatel
  • TA-cef
  • TA-fortinet
  • TA-ftp
  • TA-nmap
  • TA-tippingpoint
  • TA-trendmicro

End of Life

  • Splunk Add-on for NetFlow announced: March 18, 2019 | Ends: June 16, 2019
  • Splunk Add-on for Tenable announced: April 8, 2019 | Ends: July 7, 2019

Updated add-ons

The Common Information Model Add-on is updated to version 5.0.0.

Libraries

The following libraries are included in this release:

  • Splunk_ML_Toolkit-5.3.0-1631633293630.tgz
  • Splunk_SA_Scientific_Python_linux_x86_64-3.0.2-0
  • Splunk_SA_Scientific_Python_windows_x86_64-3.0.0
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise Security: 7.0.0

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