Chrissy Kidd
What's The CIA Triad? Confidentiality, Integrity, & Availability, Explained
The CIA security triad guides information security strategies to inform areas like security framework implementation and cyber threat.
What Is InfoSec? Information Security Explained
In this post, we'll provide an introduction to information security including how to assess InfoSec vulnerability and best practices.
What Is Incident Response?
In this post, we'll cover what incident response is and why it's essential for organizations to protect themselves from digital threats.
What Is Root Cause Analysis? The Complete RCA Guide
In this article, we'll explore how to conduct RCA, its core principles, best practices, and the tools available to facilitate this process.
Data Encryption Methods & Types: A Beginner's Guide
In this article, we'll discuss data encryption methods including symmetric and asymmetric encryption, common algorithms, and best practices.
What Is Multimodal AI? A Complete Introduction
This article explains what Multimodal AI is and examines how it works, its benefits, and its challenges.
6 Vulnerability Types You Need To Know
Knowing where and how vulnerabilities can exist, you can start to get ahead of them. Let’s look at the six most important vulnerability types.
Cybersecurity Frameworks: What They Are & How to Use Them
In this post, we'll cover what a security framework is, why organizations need them, and how organizations can benefit from them.
Data Quality & Data Quality Management (DQM)
In the data age, you must ensure your data is quality data. Learn what that means, and how to achieve it with data quality management.
What's GRC? Governance, Risk & Compliance Explained
GRC ensures organizations meet third-party requirements while still hitting high-performance goals. Learn what it is and how to implement it.
Cyber Kill Chains: Strategies & Tactics
A cyber kill chain framework helps you understand and combat attacks. Learn about the evolution and applications of the cyber kill chain.
What's a Firewall? The Complete Guide
Learn about firewalls, including how it works, and the popular types of firewalls. Also, check out some of the best practices for choosing firewalls.
What Are Social Engineering Attacks? A Detailed Explanation
In this post, we'll explore how cybercriminals use a variety of tactics and understand how to defend against social engineering attacks.
Vulnerabilities, Threats & Risk Explained
Vulnerability, threat, risk: These terms are frequently used together, but they do explain three separate components of cybersecurity?
What Is Load Balancing?
Load Balancing is the process of distributing network traffic among available servers, with the objective of optimizing certain network operations.
What Are Feedback Loops?
Today, feedback loops are commonplace in IT, business, and plenty of other domains, too. But what exactly are they meant to do — and how do they work?
Failure Metrics & KPIs for IT Systems
Failure metrics: a terrible name for a set of very useful metrics. If you're involved in uptime & reliability for IT systems, then read on to learn all about MTTR, MTBF, failure rates and more!
Internet Trends in 2025: Mary Meeker, Stats, & Predictions
If no one documents trends, did they happen? Luckily, we don’t have to pretend! We’re covering Mary Meeker to find out what happened to her internet trends.
.conf24 Global Broadcast: The Complete Guide
Curious about the .conf Global Broadcast from Splunk? Check out this article for all the details, answers, and excitement about what to expect.
What Is Splunk & What Does It Do? A Splunk Intro
Though Splunk’s been around for 20 years (!!), we get a lot of questions like “What do you do?” and "What does your name mean?" Find out about Splunk – straight from Splunk.
Data & Database Normalization: How To Normalize Data
Learn about the process of data normalization, including the different types of data normal forms, the benefits of normalized data for your business and more.
