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Scale Your Splunk Cloud Operations With The Splunk Content Manager App
Tips & Tricks
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Scale Your Splunk Cloud Operations With The Splunk Content Manager App

To address the absence of a solution that simplifies the administration of Splunk instances and aligns with Splunk's ultimate goal of focusing on generating value from data, we created the App Content Manager for Splunk.
How to Create Great Alerts
Observability
5 Minute Read

How to Create Great Alerts

Splunker Koray Harman highlights alerting scenarios to avoid and explores some of the ways to create and customize alerts in Splunk Observability Cloud to go from noise to action and improve your MTTx.
Hypothesis-Driven Cryptominer Hunting with PEAK
Security
11 Minute Read

Hypothesis-Driven Cryptominer Hunting with PEAK

A sample hypothesis-driven hunt, using SURGe's PEAK threat hunting framework, looking for unauthorized cryptominers.
How Zero-Touch Operations Went From Pipe Dream to Real Possibility (and What’s Next)
Industry Insights
3 Minute Read

How Zero-Touch Operations Went From Pipe Dream to Real Possibility (and What’s Next)

For communications and media organizations, zero-touch operations may be the key to amplifying speed while also lowering costs. Here’s how it could look.
AI at Splunk: Trustworthy Principles for Digital Resilience
Artificial Intelligence
4 Minute Read

AI at Splunk: Trustworthy Principles for Digital Resilience

Building AI responsibly is one thing, but embedding trust into every aspect of our AI strategy is another entirely – and that’s what Splunk sets out to do. Kriss Deiglmeier and Hao Yang explain more in this blog.
Defining & Improving Your Security Posture
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7 Minute Read

Defining & Improving Your Security Posture

What is your security posture? The result of all your security strategies, processes and practices. Get the total low-down on evaluating & improving yours.
AI: Keep Your Feet on the Ground
Security
1 Minute Read

AI: Keep Your Feet on the Ground

Splunk is excited about AI, but we're keeping our boots on the ground as we partner with customers to leverage AI to improve efficiency while continuing the essentials via Splunk’s platform.
Enter The Gates: An Analysis of the DarkGate AutoIt Loader
Security
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Enter The Gates: An Analysis of the DarkGate AutoIt Loader

The Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) provides a deep dive analysis of the DarkGate malware and its use of AutoIt.
Incident Response Plans: The Complete Guide To Creating & Maintaining IRPs
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6 Minute Read

Incident Response Plans: The Complete Guide To Creating & Maintaining IRPs

Need to update your incident response plan? Start here! We’ll show how to create one that works, and how to maintain it for the long haul so it stays effective.