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Chrissy Kidd

Chrissy Kidd is a technology writer, editor, and speaker based in Baltimore. The managing editor for Splunk Learn, Chrissy has covered a variety of tech topics, including ITSM & ITOps, software development, sustainable technology, and cybersecurity. Previous work includes BMC Software, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and several start-ups. She's particularly interested in how tech intersects with our daily lives. 

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Data Quality & Data Quality Management (DQM)

In the data age, you must ensure your data is quality data. Learn what that means, and how to achieve it with data quality management.
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What's GRC? Governance, Risk & Compliance Explained

GRC ensures organizations meet third-party requirements while still hitting high-performance goals. Learn what it is and how to implement it.
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Cyber Kill Chains: Strategies & Tactics

A cyber kill chain framework helps you understand and combat attacks. Learn about the evolution and applications of the cyber kill chain.
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What's a Firewall? The Complete Guide

Learn about firewalls, including how it works, and the popular types of firewalls. Also, check out some of the best practices for choosing firewalls.
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What Are Social Engineering Attacks? A Detailed Explanation

In this post, we'll explore how cybercriminals use a variety of tactics and understand how to defend against social engineering attacks.
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Vulnerabilities, Threats & Risk Explained

Vulnerability, threat, risk: These terms are frequently used together, but they do explain three separate components of cybersecurity?
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What Is Load Balancing?

Load Balancing is the process of distributing network traffic among available servers, with the objective of optimizing certain network operations.
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What Are Feedback Loops?

Today, feedback loops are commonplace in IT, business, and plenty of other domains, too. But what exactly are they meant to do — and how do they work?
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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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Internet Trends in 2024: 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.
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.conf24 Global Broadcast: The Complete Guide

Curious about the .conf Global Broadcast from Splunk? Check out this article for all the details, answers, and excitement about what to expect.
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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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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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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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What is Threat Modeling?

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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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.