- Lab
- Security

User Behavior Analysis for Insider Threats
In this lab, you’ll practice using the Splunk SIEM to analyze logs and identify potentially malicious user behaviour. When you’re finished, you’ll have the ability to analyze user behaviour and identify signs of insider threats.

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Table of Contents
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Challenge
Getting Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Challenge
Ingesting Logs in Splunk
By the end of the challenge, you will know the basic features of Splunk and have the ability to ingest logs.
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Challenge
Analyzing Log Data in Splunk
In this challenge, you will analyze logs to identify malicious behavior.
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Challenge
Summarize Findings and Flag Entries for Investigation
You will summarize your findings, generate a report, and identify what would warrant further investigations.
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Challenge
The Last Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
What's a lab?
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Provided environment for hands-on practice
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Guided walkthrough
Follow along with the author’s guided walkthrough and build something new in your provided environment!
Did you know?
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