Traditional SIEM solutions often face challenges in keeping up with the scale of modern security operations. They tend to be complex, expensive, and require extensive manual effort to maintain. In contrast, the Hunters SOC Platform offers a modern cloud-based solution built on data warehouses. With its "low-touch" approach, the platform allows easy integration of new data sources and provides out-of-the-box security content for immediate value. This guide aims to assist you in migrating from your existing SIEM solution to the Hunters SOC Platform. The migration process duration can vary, ranging from a few weeks to a year, depending on factors like environment size, complexity, number of data sources, and custom use cases. Throughout the process, Hunters' operations teams will provide support to ensure a smooth transition.
Step 1: Plan Your Migration
To begin the migration, careful planning is essential. Create a tracking sheet and a general timeline to outline the migration process. Involve your security team and other stakeholders in the planning phase to ensure a seamless transition.
Step 2: Identify and Prioritize Your Security Use Cases
Identify the most critical security use cases and the corresponding data sources required to address them. Prioritize these use cases for the initial migration. Hunters recommends starting with the integration of endpoint systems, identity providers, cloud infrastructure, and any business-critical custom use cases, such as custom application logs.
Step 3: Onboard Your Data Sources to Hunters SOC Platform
After identifying the security data sources, the next step is to onboard them onto the Hunters SOC Platform. The platform's "low-touch" approach facilitates a fast and straightforward onboarding process, and the out-of-the-box security content ensures immediate value can be derived.
Step 4: Add Your Business Context
Hunters SOC Platform provides a wide range of out-of-the-box security content, including detectors and enrichments. This eliminates the need to start from scratch when defining use cases and security operations workflows. To maximize the platform's potential, you can incorporate your unique business context by utilizing features like asset tagging to identify sensitive assets, custom scoring rules to assign appropriate risk scores to critical alerts, and custom detectors to address specific organizational security use cases.
Step 5: Train Your Security Team
Once your data is onboarded and the environment is properly configured, it is important to train your security team on the new platform. This involves educating them about the platform's features and functionality and providing necessary resources for effective utilization. Hunters' knowledge base, Customer Certification program, and training sessions conducted by Hunters' Customer Success organization can all contribute to this training phase.
Step 6: Test and Validate Your Migration
Before completing the migration to the Hunters SOC Platform, it is recommended to conduct testing and validation. This includes running test scenarios and ensuring that the platform accurately covers your use cases and aligns with your new operational workflows. Following this step, Hunters should be fully operational for your business-critical security operations. Ongoing onboarding of new data sources and environment fine-tuning should continue to accommodate changes within your organization.
(Optional) Step 7: Migrate Dashboards and Reports
If you have been utilizing Splunk for creating reports, you can recreate them using Hunters' Notebooks and Dashboards features. The Hunters' Customer Success Organization can provide support to ensure a smooth migration process.
Conclusion
Migrating to the Hunters SOC Platform offers significant benefits to your organization, including improved threat detection and response capabilities, reduced complexity and cost, and enhanced visibility into your security posture. By following the steps outlined in this guide, you can successfully migrate to the new platform and start reaping these benefits.