Kushagra Sharma's Blog Posts

Kushagra Sharma is a Product Manager at Cisco working on AIOps products that help teams operate complex systems with intelligence and scale. He focuses on translating customer problems into practical, data-driven solutions at the intersection of AI, reliability, and software platforms. Passionate about clear thinking and strong product craft, Kushagra writes to share insights on technology, product strategy, and building systems that actually work in the real world.

Security Insights: Jenkins CVE-2024-23897 RCE
Security
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Security Insights: Jenkins CVE-2024-23897 RCE

In response to CVE-2024-23897, the Splunk Threat Research Team has developed new security detections and hunting queries to support defenders.
Up Your Observability Game With Attributes
Observability
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Up Your Observability Game With Attributes

Splunk Observability Specialist, Derek Mitchell, shares best practices for deciding which attributes to collect with OpenTelemetry and how they can be used with Splunk Observability Cloud to get to triage issues more quickly.
Security Insights: Tracking Confluence CVE-2023-22527
Security
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Security Insights: Tracking Confluence CVE-2023-22527

In response to CVE-2023-22527, the Splunk Threat Research Team has developed new security detections to support defenders.
Security Q&A: While Skills Gaps Persist, There’s “No Shortage of Talent”
Ciso Circle
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Security Q&A: While Skills Gaps Persist, There’s “No Shortage of Talent”

On collaboration, optimism and building good tech teams: In conversation with Joe Fogarty, Head of the Cyber Resilience Centre, UK.
The Splunkie Awards Open Nominations for 2024
.conf & .conf Go
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The Splunkie Awards Open Nominations for 2024

The Splunkie Awards are back and more exciting than ever because for the first time this year, we’re bringing the Global Partner Awards to the Splunkies at .conf24.
Why Knowing the Front-End and User’s Experience of Your Platform is Key to Understanding How that Platform is Working
Observability
10 Minute Read

Why Knowing the Front-End and User’s Experience of Your Platform is Key to Understanding How that Platform is Working

We have all been there. When you are trying to buy a ticket and the app crashes or loads the next web page when booking a holiday only to find it takes forever and appears to hang. Our frustration level increases and if it continues, we will exit and go elsewhere. With banking apps though, we won’t move straight away but repeated bad experiences here will be remembered and eventually will make us move.