David Bianco

David is a member of Splunk's SURGe team, where he conducts research in incident detection and response, threat hunting, and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI). He is also a SANS Certified Instructor, where he teaches FOR572 Network Forensics and Threat Hunting.

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Baseline Hunting with the PEAK Framework

Splunker David Bianco provides an in-depth look at baseline hunts, also known as Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) hunts.

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Trust Unearned? Evaluating CA Trustworthiness Across 5 Billion Certificates

In this blog post, we dive into our recent research project, in which the Splunk SURGe team analyzed more than five billion TLS certificates to find out if the CAs we rely on are really worthy of our trust.

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Hypothesis-Driven Hunting with the PEAK Framework

Details on hypothesis-driven threat hunting with the PEAK framework.

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Introducing the PEAK Threat Hunting Framework

Introducing the PEAK Threat Hunting Framework, bringing a fresh perspective to threat hunting and incorporating three distinct types of hunts.