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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
Visual Link Analysis with Splunk: Part 2 - The Visual Part
Using Splunk for link analysis - part 2 covering visualizations of linked data.
Making Smarter Predictions in ITSI
As we are trying to commoditize machine learning through our MLTK smart workflows, this article outlines another example of an MLTK smart workflow, designed to help improve the usability of the predictive capabilities in ITSI.
Detecting Credit Card Fraud Using SMLE
In this blog post, we’ll explore an ML-powered solution using the Splunk Machine Learning Environment to detect fraudulent credit card transactions in real time. Using out-of-the-box Splunk capabilities, we’ll walk you through how to ingest and transform log data, train a predictive model using open source algorithms, and predict fraud in real-time against transaction events.
Observability with CI/CD in a Developer World
You need to monitor your apps and deploys equally. The Splunk Observability portfolio is the perfect complement to a CI/CD approach, from a developer laptop to an integration test environment.
Cybersecurity Today: Alice in Wonderland Meets the Matrix & Total Recall
The scale of cyber attacks and the complexity of networks exacerbate the situation. Operators face three significant challenges: an IT security ecosystem that is fragmented and in flux, users that are both human and machine, and multiple threats with varying levels of severity and sophistication.
A New Fast Lane to Value: Introducing Splunk’s IT Essentials Learn and Work Apps
Read all about our two new free new apps — IT Essentials Learn and IT Essentials Work — to help guide you on your journey towards IT maturity.
Detecting the Sudo Baron Samedit Vulnerability and Attack
Looking for ways to detect and protect against the SUDO Baron Samedit vulnerability (CVE-2021-3156)? Look no further. In this blog we tell you how to proactively detect vulnerable servers using Splunk and also to detect malicious folks who are attempting to exploit this vulnerability for nefarious outcomes!
Splunker Stories: Helina Pontohsupit
In our latest edition of our "Splunker Stories" series, we meet with one of Splunk’s Human Resources Shared Services Specialists in our Sydney, Australia office.
We sat down with Helina to learn more about the path which led her to Splunk, her experiences with the Royal Australian Air Force, and her passion for people and Splunk products!
TruSTAR Enclave: Not Your Grandpa’s 'Trusted Circle'
TruSTAR’s Enclave technology is the most advanced cloud-based governance engine for enterprise cyber intelligence – read on to discover how it has evolved to meet the needs of integration, automation and intelligence sharing.
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