Ingesting data for intelligence
A purple teaming report is an extremely valuable source of information for a company. Being able to correlate this data effectively can offer great visibility into the global security posture of an organization.
In this section, we will rely on this data and perform queries to generate reports and dashboards. To achieve this, we will look at how Splunk can be used as an intelligence engine. The purpose of generating intelligence is to offer an actionable product where a decision can be made regarding it. In the following pages, we will learn how to ingest the data that's been generated by our purple teaming exercises and present several KPI examples that can be used to articulate the relevant intelligence items.
By using Splunk, we can natively ingest CSV files to perform queries on it, but we recommend the indexation approach as it allows the SIEM to ingest and store the data over time, offering a history of the data.
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