Chrissy Kidd's Blog Posts
Chrissy Kidd is a technology writer, editor, and speaker who supports content and web strategy for Cisco Systems. The former editor for Splunk Learn, Chrissy has covered a variety of tech topics, including cybersecurity, software development, AI, observability, and sustainable technology. She's particularly interested in how tech intersects with our human lives. Connect with Chrissy on her website.
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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.
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.
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.
Vulnerabilities, Threats & Risk Explained
Vulnerability, threat, risk: These terms are frequently used together, but they do explain three separate components of cybersecurity?
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?
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!
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.
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.
Tech Newsletters To Read in 2026
Not sure which tech newsletters you're missing? Get started with these must-reads, covering every angle of tech.
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.
Sustainable Technology in 2026
Sustainable technology doesn’t get enough attention. Find out what sustainable IT means and how companies and individuals can use tech more sustainably.
Splunk Open Source: What To Know
Get the latest on open-source products and solutions from Splunk, plus a ton of excellent, free, hands-on resources for exploring with Splunk.
What is Federated Search?
Searching isn’t as easy as you think: did Google get your request? Are you pinging multiple databases? Is ChatGPT involved? Learn all about federated search here.
Monitoring vs Observability vs Telemetry: What's The Difference?
Don’t be confused, be creative. Observability is a lot more than mere monitoring. In fact, the possibilities are practically endless. Find out more here.
Ransomware Families & RaaS Groups
Every 19 seconds a ransomware attack launches. Are these standalone attacks? Are they operating within a ransomware family of shared knowledge? Find out here.
Splunk Universal Forwarder
In this blog post you can learn about Splunk Universal Forwarders - what they are, why to use them, how they work, and resources to get started.
Incident Severity Levels 1-5 Explained
Incident severity levels indicate how an incident impacts your customers, so you can prioritize and respond appropriately. Learn how to define and use them.
The Democratization of Data: The Pros & Cons of All That Data
Data democratization means that more people have access to data than ever before. Is this good, bad or complicated? Explore the pros and cons of all this data.