Splunk® Enterprise Security

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Create risk and edit risk objects in Splunk Enterprise Security

As an ES Admin, you can create and edit risk objects to categorize anything that you assign a risk score. For example, you might categorize a laptop as a "system" risk object type and an identity as a "user" risk object type.

Create a new risk object

  1. From the Enterprise Security menu, select Configure > Content > Content Management.
  2. From the Type drop-down filter, select Managed Lookup.
  3. (Optional) In the Search filter, type risk object types.
  4. Select the Risk Object Types list.
  5. Highlight the last risk_object_type cell in the table and right-click to see the table editor.
  6. Insert a new row into the table.
  7. Double-click in the new row to edit it, then add the new object type name.
  8. Save the changes.

Edit an existing risk object

  1. From the Enterprise Security menu, select Configure > Content > Content Management.
  2. From the Type drop-down filter, select Managed Lookup.
  3. (Optional) In the Search filter, type risk object types.
  4. Select the Risk Object Types list.
  5. Highlight the risk object type and change the name.
  6. Save the changes.
Last modified on 11 January, 2023
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise Security: 7.0.1, 7.0.2

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