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Don’t Get a PaperCut: Analyzing CVE-2023-27350
Security
9 Minute Read

Don’t Get a PaperCut: Analyzing CVE-2023-27350

The Splunk Threat Research team shares insights on the CVE-2023-27350 vulnerability, proof of concept scripts, setting up Splunk logging, and detecting adversaries for secure printing.
Splunk SOAR Playbook of the Month: Tackling Phishing Attempts with Identifier Reputation Analysis
Security
3 Minute Read

Splunk SOAR Playbook of the Month: Tackling Phishing Attempts with Identifier Reputation Analysis

Learn how you can use Splunk's identifier reputation analysis playbooks to implement a workflow that will help your team automate the alert and quarantine processes for potential threats based on key identifiers.
Do Not Cross The 'RedLine' Stealer: Detections and Analysis
Security
11 Minute Read

Do Not Cross The 'RedLine' Stealer: Detections and Analysis

The Splunk Threat Research Team provides a deep dive analysis of the RedLine Stealer threat and shares valuable insights to help enable blue teamers to defend against and detect this malware variant.
Staff Picks for Splunk Security Reading May 2023
Security
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Staff Picks for Splunk Security Reading May 2023

Welcome to the Splunk staff picks, featuring a curated list of presentations, whitepapers, and customer case studies that our Splunk security experts feel are worth a read.
OCSF Goes Into High Gear with Amazon Security Lake Launch and New OCSF Release Candidate
Security
2 Minute Read

OCSF Goes Into High Gear with Amazon Security Lake Launch and New OCSF Release Candidate

Splunk's Paul Agbabian shares two new major OCSF developments – the general availability of Amazon Security Lake and Splunk Add-On for AWS v.7.0, and Release Candidate 3 launching for public review.
Your Roadmap to Success with Risk-Based Alerting
Security
4 Minute Read

Your Roadmap to Success with Risk-Based Alerting

Splunker Haylee Mills dives deeper into the four levels of the Splunk Risk-Based Alerting journey.
Model-Assisted Threat Hunting (M-ATH) with the PEAK Framework
Security
9 Minute Read

Model-Assisted Threat Hunting (M-ATH) with the PEAK Framework

Welcome to the third entry in our introduction to the PEAK Threat Hunting Framework! Taking our detective theme to the next level, imagine a tough case where you need to call in a specialized investigator. For these unique cases, we can use algorithmically-driven approaches called Model-Assisted Threat Hunting (M-ATH).
Trust Unearned? Evaluating CA Trustworthiness Across 5 Billion Certificates
Security
10 Minute Read

Trust Unearned? Evaluating CA Trustworthiness Across 5 Billion Certificates

In this blog post, we dive into our recent research project, in which the Splunk SURGe team analyzed more than five billion TLS certificates to find out if the CAs we rely on are really worthy of our trust.
Splunk Field Hashing & Masking Capabilities for Compliance
Security
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Splunk Field Hashing & Masking Capabilities for Compliance

Satisfy internal and external compliance requirements using Splunk standard components.