Splunk Blogs
Leadership
6 Min Read
Splunk announces innovations across its observability portfolio to provide organizations deeper visibility into their network health through integrations with Cisco, and faster troubleshooting with the help of AI.
Featured Articles
Top 5 Reasons to Attend .conf25 in Boston
Here are the top five reasons you won't want to miss Splunk .conf25 – registration is now open.
Enter the SOC of the Future in Splunk’s State of Security 2025
Splunk's State of Security 2025: The Stronger, Smarter SOC of the Future reveals the insights, aspirations, and challenges of security leaders.
AI and the Data Value Challenge: Why It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules of Data Management
Splunk's 'The New Rules of Data Management: Creating Value in the AI Era' report captures trending shifts in data management and examines how organizations are structuring — and should be potentially rethinking — their data strategies.
SOAR on Azure Now Available
Splunk Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) is now available as a native SaaS solution on Azure.
The Splunkie Awards Are Back for 2025 — Let the Nominations Begin!
Nominate data rockstars for the 2025 Splunkie Awards! Recognize customers and partners driving innovation with Splunk.
Imposters at the Gate: Spotting Remote Employment Fraud Before It Crosses the Wire
Remote Employment Fraud actors don’t steal credentials—they’re issued them. This blog explores early detection and why security can’t face this threat alone.
Security
Defending at Machine Speed: Guiding LLMs with Security Context
Enhance LLM performance for cybersecurity tasks with few-shot learning, RAG, & fine-tuning guide models for accurate PowerShell classification.
Splunk Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025
Splunk has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Security Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025.
Security Staff Picks To Read This Month, Handpicked by Splunk Experts
Our Splunk security experts share their favorite reads of the month so you can follow the most interesting, news-worthy, and innovative stories coming from the wide world of cybersecurity.
Splunk Security Content for Threat Detection & Response: May Recap
There are 13 new analytics and 4 new analytic stories now available in Splunk Enterprise Security via the ESCU application update process.
Splunk Security Ops: Building the Blueprint for Success
Learn how Splunk Global Security runs ops at scale and enables the business by focusing on what matters—solving problems through data, automation, and collaboration.
Hey SDDL SDDL: Breaking Down Windows Security One ACE at a Time
Explore SDDL in Windows security with our comprehensive guide to help enhance your defensive strategy against privilege escalation attacks.
Learn
SIEM: Security Information & Event Management Explained
SIEM is a cybersecurity game-changer, especially for large organizations. Learn key SIEM features and functions & how to choose the right SIEM tool.
IT and Technology Spending & Budgets for 2025: Trends & Forecasts
Tech & IT spending is on the rise in 2025 across the globe. Read more on investment trends and see which regions will spend the most.
What Are SLMs? Small Language Models, Explained
Large language models have changed the world. What about small language models? Learn what SLMs are, how they differ from LLMs, and why SLMs are the future.
Telemetry 101: An Introduction To Telemetry
Telemetry is powerful data that can tell you all sorts of important information. Know what you can do with this useful data — get the full telemetry 101 here.
What are SaaS, PaaS, & IaaS?
Yes, the cloud makes work better. But which cloud model is right for you? Understand how SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS works in this ultimate guide.
What is Observability? An Introduction
In this blog post, we'll look at definitions, best practices, and key concepts around Observability in IT.
Latest Articles
The Need for Resilience: 3 Important Reflections from the World Economic Forum in Davos 2023
Davos is usually known for its variety of sports, leisure and cultural activities. Once a year, rather than tourists, this beautiful Swiss community attracts business leaders as well as government officials and policy-makers.
Using Splunk for SEO Log File Analysis
This blog post will showcase just a few of the ways we’re using Splunk to improve our own technical SEO.
What is DevOps Automation?
Automation is essential to DevOps — but it’s not easy. This guide details how to automate DevOps and the best tools for the job so you can succeed in no time!
Observability to Modernize Apps and Increase Business Resilience
With Splunk Observability, your business can deploy applications faster and optimize the customer experience at the speed of modern business.
Splunk's Black Employees and Mentors ERG at Brothers Code 2022
When Splunkers have an opportunity to do meaningful work within their communities, they always answer the call.
Cyber Resilience Through the Eyes of Our Public Sector Customers
With cyber resilience high on the agenda at GovSummit 2022, Splunk's public sector customers share their cyber resilience experiences and offer feedback on why they use Splunk.
CMDBs Explained: Configuration Management Databases
Meant to provide visibility into all IT assets, CMDBs are routinely underutilized. Learn how to plan, implement and maintain a CMDB to maximize business value.
What is ETL?
Strengthen your data foundation by knowing ETL. Short for Extract, Transform, Load, the ETL process is vital for turning all that data into business value.
All the Proxy(Not)Shells
The Splunk Threat Research Team walks through exploitation of ProxyShell and ProxyNotShell using MetaSploit, and hunts through data in Splunk to showcase different avenues for defenders to identify malicious activity.
Subscribe to our blog
Get the latest articles from Splunk straight to your inbox.
Connect with Splunk on X
Follow @Splunk
Connect with Splunk on Instagram
Follow @Splunk
