



Splunk uses TLS extensively with every Splunk Cloud Platform instance. Splunk uses TLS to ensure that communications between Splunk platform instances, including Splunk Web, are protected from potential malicious actors. It provides for confidentiality and authentication and data integrity protections for that communication. TLS is a communications protocol that lets two computers, applications, or computing processes communicate securely and privately over a network.
Splunk ssl certificate how to#
Read this topic to learn what TLS is, how TLS certificates work, and how to set up and configure certificates in the Splunk platform instances that you manage directly.Ībout transport layer security and how the Splunk platform uses it Whether the external deployment is a Splunk Enterprise instance or cluster, or is a tier of forwarders that sends data to Splunk Cloud Platform, you are responsible for securing connectivity between those Splunk components. While Splunk manages certificates on Splunk Cloud Platform, and provides certificates for forwarders to connect to SCP to send data, it isn't possible for Splunk to protect an external deployment. Introduction to securing the Splunk platform with TLSįor the highest level of security in your Splunk platform deployment, you must secure communications between Splunk platform instances that you manage with Transport Layer Security (TLS) technology.
