Splunking Your Password — Is Splunk Safe for Its Own Passwords?

We often use tools to assess the security of other systems, but what about the tool itself? Who watches that? And how secure is it? So one of the most popular tools in Security Operations Centres is Splunk. Let’s have a look at how it stores passwords.

Splunk is a great tool. Under the hood it actually operates like a Linux type environment (even on a…