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The Data-Centric Revolution: Restoring Sanity to Enterprise Security Operations
TruSTAR CEO and Co-Founder, Patrick Coughlin, recently sat down with Dave McComb, President of Semantic Arts, to talk through what it means to be Data-Centric in a Data-Driven world.

Introducing Splunk Attack Range v1.0
The Splunk Attack Range project has officially reached the v1.0 release – read on to learn how we got here, what features we’ve built for v1.0 and what the future looks like for Splunk Attack Range.

Detecting Clop Ransomware
As ransomware campaigns continue, malicious actors introduce different modus operandi to target their victims. In this blog, we’ll be taking a look at the Clop ransomware. This crimeware was discovered in 2019 and is said to be used for an attack that demanded one of the highest ransom amounts in recorded history.

Endpoint Security Data Collection Strategy: Splunk UF, uberAgent, or Sysmon?
Many threats originate from the endpoint and detecting them requires insights into what happens on the endpoint. In this post we look at different endpoint activity data sources, comparing the benefits and capabilities of Splunk Universal Forwarder with vast limits uberAgent and homegrown solutions.

Taking Automation Beyond the SOC With Advanced Network Access Control
Learn how you can scale IT operational processes and enhance network performance by leveraging security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) tools such as Splunk Phantom.

Advanced Link Analysis: Part 2 - Implementing Link Analysis
Learn how to step-by-step process to building the dashboard with Sigbay Link Analysis visualization app from scratch.

Detecting AWS IAM Privilege Escalation
The Splunk Threat Research team develops security research to help SOC analysts detect adversaries attempting to escalate their privileges and gain elevated access to AWS resources. Learn how we simulate these attacks using Atomic Red Team, collect and analyze the AWS cloudtrail logs, and utilize pre-packaged Splunk detections to detect these threats.

Splunk SOAR Playbooks: Conducting an Azure New User Census
Learn how to use automated playbooks to monitor new user accounts to ensure that threat actors like Hafnium cannot leverage the Active Directory system to exploit vulnerabilities.

Top In-Demand Cybersecurity Skills in the Upcoming Years
Automation is optimizing SOC workflows but also shaking up the cybersecurity workspace. Skills that were once in high demand are decreasing in value. Splunker Matthias Maier took a closer look into cybersecurity developments and shares which cybersecurity skills professionals should be focussing on in the upcoming years.