Blogs: Splunkers
Here are the most recent blog postings.
IT Search - A New Approach to Payment Card Industy (PCI) Compliance
The payment card industry data security standard, PCI DSS for short, was developed by the credit card industry to address data theft. The standard consists of twelve security requirement. Anything from traffic policies to requirements around anti virus software are covered by the standard. If you are a company that does more than 20.000 transactions per year, you will have to implement the twelve requirements. If you are doing less, you will get away with a quarterly vulnerability scan. IT search, Splunk, can directly address some of the areas and indirectly address most of the others. Read More »
New Splunk Apps Launch at Interop and MMS
This week we were rolling in Las Vegas with Interop at one end of the strip and the Microsoft Management Summit at the other end. At Interop we launched the Splunk for Change Management app. And at MMS the Splunk for Windows Management app made it's debut. Both apps make use of the Splunk Platform which provides a common set of services and APIs making it easy to create and integrate applications that leverage vast amounts of IT data. These are the second and third applications in a series of new releases we'll be doing this year. Splunk for PCI was the first app launched last Read More »
Splunk Fights Phishing
This morning, there was yet another case of phishing that was reported by the New York Times. This phishing incident, Larger Prey Are Targets of Phishing, is interesting because of the victim demographics: executives of large companies. As I just learned, this is also referred to as whaling. We have all seen phishing emails that tried to lure us into logging into our PayPal account. But an email from the United States District Court in San Diego that has a very authentic look is a different story. Would you fall for it? The best way to address phishing is to educate users to make sure they Read More »
Tell us your Splunk story at Interop
Are you planning on being at Interop in Vegas April 27-May 2? Do you use Splunk? If so, I'd love to hear from you. I'll be there with the Splunk video team and we'd love to record some new interviews with Splunk users. If you haven't seen some of the user interview videos we've already done, check them out. They're the best way to learn about how Splunk's getting applied in the real world. Some of my favorites: Demetri Mouratis, Rhythm New Media, using Splunk as an IT data platform across business and operations teams; Allen Hecker and Mark Bronniman, the senior security analyst and senior Read More »
Return of the Ninja and his darn A.D.D.
Recently, I've been thinking long and hard about blogging. People get on my case because "the ninja hasn't blogged lately". They're right. I do understand that when you have go so far as to actually establish some sort of audience - in my case - Splunk related content consumers, you owe it to them to keep the content up. In fact I do cherish the one thing any reader does give (which is the best possible gift) - your attention. You have my word I shall publish much more. What I'd ultimately like to do is use something like Twitter to create microblog feeds that pipe directly in to Read More »
…a new Splunk song idea just popped into my head…
...actually a couple ideas for songs about Splunk have made their way into my geeky little brain since my last blog post. Yeah, yeah, I know what you're saying..."Hey Maverick, the world doesn't need another nerdy song about an IT Search Platform." My natural response is, you're probably right, but I can't help myself. I'm a nerd, a songwriter, I love Splunk: I have no choice! So where's the mp3, dude?! Truth is, I am just too damn busy these days to spend time on it. That is one of the reasons why I haven't posted a new blog entry since September of last year. Turns out the demand for Splunk Read More »