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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
The High Cost of Security Investigations
Splunk Asset & Risk Intelligence (ARI) can significantly reduce investigation costs, improve analyst efficiency, and accelerate threat containment.
Supercharge Your SOC Investigations with Splunk SOAR 6.4
Splunker Nick Hunter explains how to integrate Cisco Talos threat intelligence, leverage Azure scalability, and streamline investigations.
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.
Cloak and Firewall: Exposing Netsh’s Hidden Command Tricks
Learn about hidden Netsh command tricks, detection methods, and Splunk security detections to protect your Windows systems.
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
Reflections from Cisco Partner Summit 2024: Building the Future as One
Cisco Partner Summit 2024 highlighted the growing recognition of Splunk’s critical role in addressing enterprise security and observability challenges.
Data Normalization Explained: An In-Depth Guide
Data normalization is simply a way to reorganize clean data so it’s easier for users to work with and query. Learn more here.
DORA, Operational Resilience and Intelligent Observability
DORA brings harmonisation of the rules relating to operational resilience for the financial sector applying to 20 different types of financial entities and ICT third-party service providers and while press discussion (and even the press releases from the EU itself) has emphasised the security dimension of operational resilience, a close reading of the texts associated with the regulation demonstrates an equal if not greater focus on the need for intelligent (i.e. AI enhanced) observability.
What is Privilege Escalation? An Introduction
Learn about privilege escalation, a security exploit that elevates user access rights, its types, attack methods, risks, and best practices for prevention.
Managing Splunk Add-Ons with UCC Framework
The UCC framework is designed for Splunk users and developers who want to improve their add-on development process and management.
RSA Algorithm in Cryptography: Rivest Shamir Adleman Explained
This article describes RSA algorithm, how it works, and its major applications in cryptography. It also explains the vulnerabilities of RSA.
Observations from .conf Go: Why Every Business Needs Observability
Raen Lim, Splunk Group Vice President, explains why building robust digital resilience — supported by strong observability — is essential.
What is Spoofing? An Introduction
Learn about spoofing: types like email, IP, DNS, and GPS spoofing, how attackers exploit them, and tips to protect yourself from these cyber threats.
How Aditya Builds Digital Resilience as a Software Engineer
Aditya Bhatia shares what he does in his day-to-day as a software development engineer on our Control Loop team and how he’s grown at Splunk.
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