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Splunk Enterprise Administration: Managing Users and Authentication

by Karun Subramanian

Splunk's role based access control implementation can be daunting to learn. In this course, you'll gain a thorough understanding of Splunk roles and master Splunk authentication methods including single sign-on and multi-factor authentication.

What you'll learn

Securing Splunk Enterprise is an important task of a Splunk Administrator. But mastering Splunk's role based access control and various authentication mechanisms can be difficult. In this course, Splunk Enterprise Administration: Managing Users and Authentication, you will gain foundational knowledge of Splunk users and roles management. First, you will learn Splunk's role based access control and the inheritance of capabilities. Next, you will discover configuring external LDAP for authentication and mapping LDAP groups into Splunk roles. Finally, you will explore how to configure single sign-on and multi-factor authentication. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of configuring Splunk roles and authentication mechanisms needed to manage Splunk security.

About the author

Karun is passionate about IT operations. He has 20+ years of hands-on experience in diverse technologies ranging from Linux Administration to Cloud technologies, and everything in between. He specializes in modernizing IT operations with automation, end-to-end monitoring, CI/CD and containerization. He holds professional certifications from half a dozen companies, including IBM, Oracle and Splunk. Karun has extensive experience in popular Application Performance Management tools such as Dynatrac... more

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