Innovation is more important than ever before for mission success. Many public sector organizations are still at the beginning of their innovation journey, according to a recent Splunk survey, conducted with researchers at the Enterprise Strategy Group, that spoke to 1,250 senior IT and business decision-makers worldwide. Read on to learn more.

We are pleased to announce that Splunk has achieved U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Provisional Authorization by the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) at Impact Level 5 (IL5), which allows U.S. Government agencies to use Splunk Cloud Platform for higher sensitivity Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).

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.

Splunk welcomes the roll out of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) as a significant step forward in leveraging collaborative data and defense to battle cyber attacks from criminal organizations and nation states.

The standardization of information system logs across the federal government may take time, but it is a critical component to improving investigative and remediation capabilities.

Public sector organisations are in the middle of a massive digital transformation. This transformation also opens new avenues for cyberthreats and expands the attack surface. The traditional approach is to collect data at the rapidly eroding perimeter, subsequently ignoring users as they continue into the network. Zero-trust architectures require government departments to continuously monitor, detect, evaluate, and enforce policy as users move about the network.

Explore the industry trends and insights that align with the DoD’s goals and objectives in part two of this two-part series.

Discover how the Splunk Data-to-Everything Platform has enabled public organizations to advance their cloud and modernization strategies to keep up with citizens’ evolving needs and expectations.

Operational resilience is currently a hot topic in Financial Services, largely because of the impact that COVID has had on how customers interact with financial institutions. Almost overnight, the financial services industry had to cope with a large volume of transactions moving to digital channels at the same time as its employees were forced to set up home offices so that they could continue to work remotely.