Tamara Chacon's Blog Posts

Tamara is a member of Splunk's SURGe team. Before joining Splunk, she worked as a network engineer.

Macro-ATT&CK 2024: A Five-Year Perspective
Security
6 Minute Read

Macro-ATT&CK 2024: A Five-Year Perspective

Splunk’s Ryan Fetterman and Tamara Chacon dive into attacker techniques, trends, and blue team tips for analyzing and visualizing data from the past year.
How To Start Threat Hunting: The Beginner's Guide
Security
6 Minute Read

How To Start Threat Hunting: The Beginner's Guide

Ready to hunt threats? Starting a hunt in a new data environment? This is the place to begin! We've got you covered in this threat hunting 101 tutorial.
Detecting Lateral Movement with Splunk: How To Spot the Signs
Security
4 Minute Read

Detecting Lateral Movement with Splunk: How To Spot the Signs

Identifying lateral movement is so important, and it sure isn't easy. Using Splunk makes it a lot easier, and we'll show you how in this tutorial.
Detecting New Domains in Splunk (Finding New Evil)
Security
7 Minute Read

Detecting New Domains in Splunk (Finding New Evil)

Ready to find "new" domains that may be naughty? We'll walk you through how to use Splunk & Splunk Enterprise Security to do that: get the full story here!
Old School vs. New School
Security
6 Minute Read

Old School vs. New School

The Splunk SURGe team examines the claim that generative AI will empower threat actors to improve the scale and/or efficiency of their spear-phishing campaigns.
Detecting Dubious Domains with Levenshtein, Shannon & URL Toolbox
Security
6 Minute Read

Detecting Dubious Domains with Levenshtein, Shannon & URL Toolbox

Got some parsed fields that you're ready to analyze... possibly for threat hunting? We'll use Levenshtein, Shannon & URL Toolbox to show you how!