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Visible Risks Assessments in the Financial Services Industry
Industries
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Visible Risks Assessments in the Financial Services Industry

This blog entry provides a proposal to add risk scores to all relevant Financial Services reports within a firm that will provide compliance and risk management departments more KPIs to make decisions faster. The reports come from Splunk dashboards. Several examples are listed and prescription on how to do this is provided.
Spear Phishing & How To Prevent It
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5 Minute Read

Spear Phishing & How To Prevent It

Highly targeted spear phishing attacks focus on specific individuals in businesses. Are you one of them? Are you being targeted? Find out here.
Splunk Insights: Investigating the 3CXDesktopApp Supply Chain Compromise
Security
9 Minute Read

Splunk Insights: Investigating the 3CXDesktopApp Supply Chain Compromise

In this Splunk blog post, we aim to equip defenders with the necessary tools and strategies to actively hunt down and counteract this campaign. Additionally, we will offer some resilient analytic ideas that can serve as a foundation for future threat detection and response efforts.
Who's the Boss? EMEA Boss Of The SOC DAY 2023
Security
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Who's the Boss? EMEA Boss Of The SOC DAY 2023

Boss of the SOC (BOTS) is Splunk’s blue-team capture the flag-esque competition in which defenders use Splunk’s suite of security products to find APT threats, discover attacks and figure out what happened to our favorite virtual organization “Frothly Brewing Co.”
Data Centers: The Ultimate Guide To Data Center Cooling & Energy Optimization
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Data Centers: The Ultimate Guide To Data Center Cooling & Energy Optimization

Because data contribute heavily to carbon emissions (thus overall climate change), they are the perfect place to optimize and reduce energy usage.
What Generative AI Means For Cybersecurity: Risk & Reward
Security
5 Minute Read

What Generative AI Means For Cybersecurity: Risk & Reward

Learn the risks and rewards of generative AI in cybersecurity.
Splunk Synthetics in Observability Terraform Provider Released
Observability
3 Minute Read

Splunk Synthetics in Observability Terraform Provider Released

Reap the benefits of Splunk Synthetics and Monitoring as Code with the Splunk Synthetics Terraform Provider for Splunk Observability resources.
Financial Services Predictions - the highlights for 2023: Two trends, two actions and a honest take on financial services hype.
Industries
6 Minute Read

Financial Services Predictions - the highlights for 2023: Two trends, two actions and a honest take on financial services hype.

Two trends, two actions and a honest take on financial services hype. Thanks to regulation, legislation and the pandemic, the term ‘resilience’ has burst into the consciousness throughout the financial services industry. But why is it so important?
Trust, understanding, and love
Industries
6 Minute Read

Trust, understanding, and love

Not an 80s pop ballad, but technical considerations for financial services organisations in the year ahead.