Splunk® Enterprise Security

Release Notes

This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk® Enterprise Security. For documentation on the most recent version, go to the latest release.

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.

When using Splunk Enterprise Security version 7.0.2 or higher and Splunk Cloud Platform version 9.0.2208 or higher, you cannot switch between the dark and light UI themes using the Splunk Enterprise Security app. However, you can switch UI themes using the Splunk Enterprise search app. For more information on switching UI themes, see Change the UI theme of Splunk Enterprise Security.

What's new

Splunk Enterprise Security version 7.0.2 is a maintenance release and includes no new enhancements.

New feature or enhancement Description
Restrict users from updating the Incident Review page Splunk Cloud version 9.0.2205 offers granular role based access control (RBAC) for lookups and KV Store collections for various users and roles. The granular write permissions are broken down into insert, update, and delete permissions. Therefore, users with ess_analyst role on Splunk Cloud Platform version 9.0.2205 using Splunk Enterprise Security 7.0.2 or higher cannot make changes to the Incident Review page with the following command:

| outputlookup append=t incident_review_lookup
Restricting analysts from updating or deleting any changes that were made on the Incident Review page helps Splunk Enterprise Security to maintain the integrity of the investigations.

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 5.0.2.

Libraries

The following libraries are included in this release:

  • Splunk_ML_Toolkit-5.2.0-1588985117706
  • Splunk_SA_Scientific_Python_linux_x86_64-3.0.2-0
  • Splunk_SA_Scientific_Python_windows_x86_64-2.0.1-0
Last modified on 06 December, 2022
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise Security: 7.0.2

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