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.

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The SaaS Security Guide: Best Practices for Securing SaaS

In this article, let’s look at SaaS security: what it is, the most common threats to SaaS and actionable best practices for securing SaaS applications.

Security

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Ghost in the Web Shell: Introducing ShellSweep

Splunk introduces ShellSweep, a suite of utilities designed to detect and combat malicious web shells in servers.

Splunk Life

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December 2023 Living Our Values Award Winners

Cheers to the Splunkers who embody our core values of innovative, passionate, disruptive, open and fun.

Observability

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The Importance of Traces for Modern APM [Part 2]

In the second part of this blog we will explore how increased entropy forces us to rethink what is required for monitoring.

Security

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Hunting M365 Invaders: Blue Team's Guide to Initial Access Vectors

Discover insights from the Splunk Threat Research Team on Microsoft 365 threat detection, focusing on data source analysis and effective methods for hunting initial access threats.

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Google Dorking: An Introduction for Cybersecurity Professionals

In this blog post, we'll take a look at the basics of Google Dorking (AKA Google Hacking), how it can impact your organization, and steps you can take to mitigate this risk.