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Securing Splunk Enterprise
- Install Splunk Enterprise securely
- Create secure administrator credentials
- About TLS encryption and cipher suites
- Secure Splunk Enterprise with FIPS
- About default certificate authentication
- Harden the Splunk Enterprise installation directory on Windows
- Secure Splunk Enterprise on your network
- Disable unnecessary Splunk Enterprise components
- Secure Splunk Enterprise service accounts
- Deploy secure passwords across multiple servers
- Harden the network port that App Key Value Store uses
- Best practices for hardening Splunk Enterprise servers and the operating systems they use
- Use network access control lists to protect your deployment
- Use access control to secure Splunk data
- About user authentication
- About configuring role-based user access
- Define roles on the Splunk platform with capabilities
- Create and manage users with Splunk Web
- Create and manage roles with Splunk Web
- Find existing users and roles
- Secure access for Splunk knowledge objects
- Password best practices for administrators
- Configure Splunk password policies
- Configure a Splunk Enterprise password policy using the Authentication.conf configuration file
- Password best practices for users
- Unlock a user account
- Change a user password
- Manage out-of-sync passwords in a search head cluster
- Set up user authentication with LDAP
- Manage Splunk user roles with LDAP
- LDAP prerequisites and considerations
- Secure LDAP authentication with transport layer security (TLS) certificates
- How the Splunk platform works with multiple LDAP servers for authentication
- Configure LDAP with Splunk Web
- Map LDAP groups to Splunk roles in Splunk Web
- Configure single sign-on with SAML
- Configure SSO with PingIdentity as your SAML identity provider
- Configure SSO with Okta as your identity provider
- Configure SSO with Microsoft Azure AD or AD FS as your Identity Provider
- Configure SSO with OneLogin as your identity provider
- Configure SSO with Optimal as your identity provider
- Configure SSO in Computer Associates (CA) SiteMinder
- Secure SSO with TLS certificates on Splunk Enterprise
- Configure Ping Identity with leaf or intermediate SSL certificate chains
- Configure SAML SSO for other IdPs
- Configure authentication extensions to interface with your SAML identity provider
- Configure advanced settings for SSO
- Map groups on a SAML identity provider to Splunk roles
- Modify or remove role mappings
- Troubleshoot SAML SSO
- About multifactor authentication with Duo Security
- Configure Splunk Enterprise to use Duo Security multifactor authentication
- Configure Duo multifactor authentication for Splunk Enterprise in the configuration file
- About multifactor authentication with RSA Authentication Manager
- Configure RSA authentication from Splunk Web
- Configure Splunk Enterprise to use RSA Authentication Manager multifactor authentication via the REST endpoint
- Configure Splunk Enterprise to use RSA Authentication Manager multifactor authentication in the configuration file
- User experience when logging into a Splunk instance configured with RSA multifactor authentication
- About securing inter-Splunk communication
- Configure secure communications between Splunk instances with updated cipher suite and message authentication code
- Securing distributed search heads and peers
- Secure deployment servers and clients using certificate authentication
- Secure Splunk Enterprise services with pass4SymmKey
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Set up user authentication with LDAP
The Splunk platform supports several types of authentication schemes, including the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
About configuring LDAP authentication for
The Splunk platform lets you configure user and role configuration for LDAP users and groups. You can configure the Splunk platform to use one or many LDAP servers, then map users and user groups from your servers to Splunk roles. You can also configure Splunk authentication tokens for LDAP users.
Before you configure the Splunk platform for LDAP, read LDAP prerequisites and considerations.
After you configure LDAP as an authentication scheme, see Set up authentication with tokens if you want information on creating authentication tokens for LDAP users.
How to configure LDAP as an authentication scheme
Following are the main steps to configure the Splunk platform to work with LDAP for authentication:
- Configure one or more LDAP strategies, typically one strategy per LDAP server.
- Map LDAP groups to one or more Splunk roles.
- If you have multiple LDAP servers, specify the connection order of the servers.
In Splunk Cloud Platform, you can perform these steps in Splunk Web. See Configure LDAP with Splunk Web.
In Splunk Enterprise, you can use either Splunk Web or configuration files to configure LDAP. To use configuration files to configure LDAP, see Configure LDAP with configuration files.
If you need to configure multiple LDAP servers to work with your Splunk platform instance, see How Splunk works with multiple LDAP servers.
Precedence of Splunk authentication schemes
The native Splunk authentication scheme takes precedence over any external schemes. Precedence is the order in which the Splunk platform authenticates a user:
- The Splunk platform attempts native authentication to log the user in first. If authentication fails, and the failure is not due to a nonexistent local account, then the platform does not attempt to use LDAP to login.
- If the failure is due to a nonexistent local account, then the Splunk platform attempts a login using the LDAP authentication scheme.
- On Splunk Enterprise only, if you have configured scripted authentication, the instance then attempts to log in using a script. For more information about scripted authentication, see Set up user authentication with external systems.
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 7.3.0, 7.3.1, 7.3.2, 7.3.3, 7.3.4, 7.3.5, 7.3.6, 7.3.7, 7.3.8, 7.3.9, 8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, 8.0.3, 8.0.4, 8.0.5, 8.0.6, 8.0.7, 8.0.8, 8.0.9, 8.0.10, 8.1.0, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.3, 8.1.4, 8.1.5, 8.1.6, 8.1.7, 8.1.8, 8.1.9, 8.1.10, 8.1.11, 8.1.12, 8.1.13, 8.1.14, 8.2.0, 8.2.1, 8.2.2, 8.2.3, 8.2.4, 8.2.5, 8.2.6, 8.2.7, 8.2.8, 8.2.9, 8.2.10, 8.2.11, 8.2.12, 9.0.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, 9.0.3, 9.0.4, 9.0.5, 9.0.6, 9.0.7, 9.0.8, 9.0.9, 9.0.10, 9.1.0, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3, 9.1.4, 9.1.5, 9.1.6, 9.1.7, 9.1.8, 9.1.9, 9.2.0, 9.2.1, 9.2.2, 9.2.3, 9.2.4, 9.2.5, 9.2.6, 9.3.0, 9.3.1, 9.3.2, 9.3.3, 9.3.4, 9.4.0, 9.4.1, 9.4.2
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