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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
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.
Staff Picks for Splunk Security Reading March 2021
These monthly postings will feature the favorite security-centric presentations, white papers and customer case studies from various peeps in the Splunk (or not) security world that WE think everyone should read. If you would like to read other months, please take a peek at previous posts in the "Staff Picks" series!
How Observability Helps Technology Leaders Stay Ahead of the Pack
Hear from technology leaders why Observability is critical to improving insights that will help you monitor and troubleshoot for root causes in your cloud-native environment.
Splunker Stories: Jeremy Rissi
In the latest edition of our "Splunker Stories" series, we meet our AVP of Defense and Intelligence, Jeremy Rissi. We sat down with Jeremy to discuss the path which led him to Splunk, and how he has taken every lesson in his life and applied it to being a better sales leader.
Make Your App More Secure By Updating to jQuery® Version 3.5 or Newer
Splunk will be deprecating use of older versions of jQuery and migrating to v 3.5.0 or newer. Here is what you need to know to start preparing for this upcoming migration.
Automated Clean-up of HAFNIUM Shells and Processes with Splunk Phantom
Implement security playbooks to automatically delete Microsoft Exchange Webshells and terminate W3WP spawned processes with Splunk Phantom.
Five Red Lights: The Formula 1 Season is About to Start
2020 wasn't quite the start that we were expecting when we began our partnership with McLaren Racing; however, what a season it turned out to be! Splunk's James Hodge reflects on the last year and the amazing learning journey about the data behind F1, ahead of this year's season opener.
Splunker Stories: Jennifer Conner
In the latest edition of our "Splunker Stories" series, we met with Splunk’s Manager of our Americas SPOT Team (Splunk People Operations Team), Jennifer Conner.
In addition to Jennifer taking the time to meet with us, she also was an active participant in our BEAMs (Black Employees and Mentors) employee resource group recorded panel discussion Non-Technical Essential Roles in Big Data.
Facing History with the Womxn’s Equality Walk
Explore the Womxn's Equality Walk virtual exhibit created by the Splunk Womxn+ employee resource group, inspired by the theme of the 2020 International Women's Day, #eachforequal, in celebration of Women's History Month.
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