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Chrissy Kidd

Chrissy Kidd is a technology writer, editor and speaker. Part of Splunk’s growth marketing team, Chrissy translates technical concepts to a broad audience. She’s particularly interested in the ways technology intersects with our daily lives.

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Data & Database Normalization Explained: How To Normalize Data

Learn about the process of data normalization, including the different types of data normal forms, the benefits of normalized data for your business and more.
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Network Traffic & Network Congestion: The Complete Guide

Network traffic is critical for businesses today. Read on to learn how network traffic works, and how to stop traffic congestion.
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What Is Splunk & What Does It Do? A Splunk Intro

Though Splunk’s been around for 20 years (!!), we get a lot of questions like “What do you do?” and "What does your name mean?" Find out about Splunk – straight from Splunk.
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Splunk Podcasts

Wondering if Splunk has any podcasts? The answer is YES! In this article, you can see all the podcasts that Splunk has published over the years.
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Threat Modeling: The Ultimate Guide

Get started with threat modeling today. We’ll define threat modeling, discuss how it works, and share simple and advanced threat modeling frameworks.
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The Best Security Conferences & Events 2024

Ready for in-person security conferences and events? Check out this roundup of 2024 security conferences, covering cybersecurity, InfoSec, SecOps and more.
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Cybersecurity Trends: 8 Critical Trends to Watch

Calling all CISOs, security pros & anyone into security: Be prepared (and know how to prepare) for the biggest cyber threats and trends today.
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Ransomware & Extortionware in 2024: Stats & Trends

Ransomware is among the worst threats you face. Even worse? Ransomware keeps changing how it attacks. Get the latest ransomware trends & stats here.
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Tech Newsletters To Read in 2024

Not sure which tech newsletters you're missing? Get started with these must-reads, covering every angle of tech.
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SOAR: Security Orchestration, Automation & Response

SOAR revolutionizes how security operations teams manage, analyze and respond to alerts and threats. Learn what a modern SOAR solution is — and isn't.
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Data Lake vs. Data Warehouse: What's The Difference?

Data, data everywhere! 🤓 But where do you store it? Depends on the need! Data lakes are fun but have no boundaries, and data warehouses are ready for business.
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SOCs: Security Operation Centers Explained

SOC is a centralized location where security professionals build and maintain the security architecture that monitors, detects, analyzes and responds to cybersecurity incidents and threats, typically around the clock.
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Distributed Tracing: Your Ultimate Guide

A super helpful way to improve customer experience is to know what's going on across all apps, services, and requests. That's what distributed tracing does.
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Data Platforms Explained: Features, Benefits & Getting Started

Data platforms are the key to truly becoming a data-driven organization. Learn what you're missing without a modern data platform.
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Zero Trust & Zero Trust Network Architecture (ZTNA)

Trust no one, authenticate everyone. That's what zero trust is all about. Get the full cyber story in this in-depth article.
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What’s XDR? Extended Detection & Response, Explained

XDR for cybersecurity: secure those endpoints! Get the full story on what XDR can — and cannot — do in strengthening your security posture.
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Sustainable Technology in 2024

Sustainable technology doesn’t get enough attention. Find out what sustainable IT means and how companies and individuals can use tech more sustainably.
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SIEM: Security Information & Event Management Explained

SIEM is a cybersecurity game-changer, especially for large organizations. Learn key SIEM features and functions & how to choose the right SIEM tool.
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Failure Metrics & KPIs for IT Systems

Failure metrics: a terrible name for a set of very useful metrics. If you're involved in uptime & reliability for IT systems, then read on to learn all about MTTR, MTBF, failure rates and more!
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Distributed Systems Explained

Distributed systems power most everything digital. Learn how they work, what they do, and why organizations rely on them so much.
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Internet Trends Report: Mary Meeker, Stats, & Predictions

If no one documents trends, did they happen? Luckily, we don’t have to pretend! We’re covering Mary Meeker to find out what happened to her internet trends.