Hemant Seth's Blog Posts

Hemant is a Principal Product Manager at Splunk, leading the Kubernetes Monitoring offering within Splunk Observability Cloud. Prior to this role, he focused on Splunk Observability Platform administration, including identity management and license usage. Hemant brings over a decade of experience in the observability domain and holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Telecommunications.

Partner Spotlight: Texas Bankers Association Operationalize Data Across Teams and Tools
Security
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Partner Spotlight: Texas Bankers Association Operationalize Data Across Teams and Tools

TruSTAR, acquired by Splunk, recently spoke with Alvin Mills, TBA’s Vice President of Information Technology and Security to learn why the organization selected TruSTAR as its intelligence management platform for data-centric security automation.
Monitor Amazon EKS Anywhere with Splunk
Observability
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Monitor Amazon EKS Anywhere with Splunk

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring provides a turn-key, enterprise-grade Kubernetes monitoring solution for Amazon EKS. It also provides out-of-the-box monitoring of the Kubernetes Control Plane. With Splunk’s support for EKS-A, our joint customers can confidently run Kubernetes in all environments – cloud-native with Amazon EKS, hybrid with Amazon Outposts and on-premises self-managed environments using EKS-A.
Top Devops Tools: 10 Essential Tools for Actual Practitioners
Observability
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Top Devops Tools: 10 Essential Tools for Actual Practitioners

These are the top ten devops tools essential for actual practitioners. We break down the tools your team should have in the areas of version control, containerization, config, observability and monitoring.
Three Steps to Maximize Your Time at Splunk .conf21 Virtual With the ITOps Track
.conf & .conf Go
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Three Steps to Maximize Your Time at Splunk .conf21 Virtual With the ITOps Track

If you're like me, your inbox is out of control, your calendar is full, and for some of us, your navigating kids going back to school! To help, I thought I'd outline three simple steps to get you ready for .conf21. These steps will allow you to maximize your time and value whether you plan to attend in Las Vegas or online.
PowerShell Detections — Threat Research Release, August 2021
Security
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PowerShell Detections — Threat Research Release, August 2021

Adversaries are using PowerShell attacks, but luckily the Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) has developed PowerShell analytics for Splunk by using the Splunk Attack Range to collect the generated logs, and hunt for suspicious PowerShell.
OMB Mandates Agency Log Standardization to Improve Security
Industries
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OMB Mandates Agency Log Standardization to Improve Security

The Office of Management and Budget’s memo mandates a maturity model for event log management, sets agency implementation requirements, and establishes government-wide responsibilities.