Integrating Dropzone AI with Splunk

The Dropzone AI Platform integrates with Splunk Enterprise, a SIEM tool. Dropzone can perform analysis of Splunk-generated alerts, and/or use Splunk data as part of investigation analysis. Many customers ingest other alert sources into Splunk (e.g. IDPs) and integrate Dropzone into Splunk rather than the source systems.

Dropzone communicates to Splunk Enterprise using the Dropzone Connector.

There are two methods to integrate with Dropzone AI: creating a Splunk User or configuring an API token. To create an API token, follow instructions in Splunk's documentation.

Create a Splunk User

To create a Splunk user, do the following:

• In the Home Menu of Splunk Enterprise, navigate to Settings > Users

• Click "New User"

• Name the user something memorable, such as Dropzone AI, and create a password. Save them for use later in the Dropzone UI where they are called "Username" and "Password" respectively.

• In the "Assign Roles" section, assign the user the "User" role.

You may need to add capabilities to this role depending on the level of access you want Dropzone to have. If you would like to limit the indexes Dropzone has access to, you will need to create a custom role with inherited permissions from the user role. See the Splunk documentation for more information on creating custom roles.

• If two-factor authentication is enabled, provide the Duo username

• Click "Create"

Enable Splunk

To enable the Alert Source integration, you'll need the following information:

• Dropzone Field
• Source
• Server: The hostname or IP address of your Splunk server, e.g splunk.corp.example.net
• Password: The username of the Splunk user you created earlier
• Password: The password of the Splunk user you created earlier

If you chose to create an API token instead of a Splunk user, you will need to use the API token instead.

To enable the Alert Source integration, do the following:

• Navigate to your Dropzone AI tenant home page e.g. https:// mycompany.dropzone.app

• In the bottom left hand corner, navigate to Settings > Integrations

• Click "Available"

• In the Search bar, search Splunk, then click "Configure"

• If your Splunk integration is behind an On-premise Dropzone Connector, select your connector from the dropdown

• Input your Splunk Server and port

• If you created a Splunk User, under "Authentication Method," select Password. If you created an API token, select Token

• Input your authentication details

• To enable Splunk Enterprise Security alert polling, check the box labeled "Enabled" in the "Splunk Enterprise Security" section.

• Under "ES Macro," select the version of ES you are using ('notable' for ES 8.0+ or 'mc_incidents' for version ES 7.0 and earlier)

• Under "Enabled Severities," select the severity levels you want Dropzone to investigate.

• In the "Title Exclusion Patterns" section, you may exclude notable events from investigation by title. To do so, click "Add Item," then input a python regex to filter out titles

• Input your full Splunk URL (e.g. http://splunk.my-company.com) for ticket link back, or leave blank to default to your server.

• In the "Alert Queries" section, input your desired log ingestion delay.

• Under "Splunk Alert Search," you must input a Splunk SPL search query to identify alerts to investigate

• If you wish for Dropzone to regularly query for alerts 24 hours in the past, check the box labeled "Advanced: Enable hourly 1 day lookback."

• Input your desired poll interval and lookback

• In the "Ticket Sync - Comment" section, check the boxes to choose what information to include in each ticket

• If you wish for Dropzone to update the ticket status over the course of the investigation, check the box labeled "Update ticket status on investigation change," then select the status parameters

• If you wish to further filter alerts using the Python CEL package, check the box labeled "Use advanced filtering."

• Input your CEL expression, then select whether to include or exclude alerts matching that filter. Add each filter individually using the "Add Item" button.

• Contact your Dropzone AI support representative for more information about this feature

• Click "Test & Save" to finish.

If you have any errors or questions, engage your Dropzone AI support representative.