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.

Splunk SOAR Playbooks: Suspicious Email Domain Enrichment
Security
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Splunk SOAR Playbooks: Suspicious Email Domain Enrichment

This playbook focuses specifically on domain names contained in the ingested email, and it uses Cisco Umbrella Investigate to add the risk score, risk status, and domain category to the event in Splunk SOAR.
Announcing the General Availability of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM)
Observability
6 Minute Read

Announcing the General Availability of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM), now generally available, leverages open source and OpenTelemetry standardization to help SREs and on-call engineers troubleshoot customer-facing issues faster, and optimize end-user experience.
Conquer Complexity at Any Scale With the New Splunk Observability Cloud
Observability
3 Minute Read

Conquer Complexity at Any Scale With the New Splunk Observability Cloud

Announcing the new Splunk Observability Cloud, bringing together the world’s best-in-class solutions for infrastructure monitoring, application performance management, digital experience monitoring, synthetic monitoring, log investigation and incident response.
Observability: It’s Not What You Think
Observability
4 Minute Read

Observability: It’s Not What You Think

Observability is not just metrics, traces, and logs. It is a mindset that lets you answer any question about your business through collection and analysis of data.
Cybersecurity’s Moneyball Transformation
Security
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Cybersecurity’s Moneyball Transformation

What do baseball and cybersecurity have in common? Nothing, at first glance. But, take a deeper look and you can see the glaring similarities. That's because cybersecurity is going through its Moneyball transformation right now. Read this blog post to learn more.
Clop Ransomware Detection: Threat Research Release, April 2021
Security
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Clop Ransomware Detection: Threat Research Release, April 2021

Discover how the Splunk Threat Research Team focused their research efforts on Clop Ransomware detections to help organizations detect abnormal behavior faster before it becomes detrimental.