Filtering procedures by security maturity in Splunk Security Essentials

Splunk Security Essentials offers default procedures for a variety of security use cases and for every stage of the security journey. The procedures provide a way to start ingesting your data into Splunk Enterprise and monitoring useful metrics within your environment. For more information on available procedures, see Review your content with the Security Content page.

Security maturity journey stages

There are six stages of security maturity. Go to Data > Security Data Journey to see the journey stages and to filter the procedures available at each stage. The following table describes the six stages:

Stage	Description
1. Collection	Collect basic security logs and other machine data from your environment.
2. Normalization	Apply a standard security taxonomy and add asset and identity data.
3. Expansion	Collect additional high fidelity data sources like endpoint activity and network metadata to drive advanced attack detection.
4. Enrichment	Augment security data with intelligence sources to better understand the context and impact of an event.
5. Automation and Orchestration	Establish a consistent and repeatable security operation capability.
6. Advanced Detection	Apply sophisticated detection mechanisms, including machine learning.