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David Dalling
David Dalling

David is a subject matter expert with over 20 years of Information Security experience and IT Operations. He is an accomplished, motivated, and versatile IT professional in a variety of Information Technology fields ranging from hands-on systems development, testing, and management to enterprise-level strategic planning, and consultation. David is a man of firsts; He helped get the DHS Enterprise Security Operations program its first ever ATO, wrote the first ever common control package for DHS, received a security engineering award at DHS HQ for developing a metrics program that contributed to DHS first ever perfect score card. Taking this experience David then lead the development of the first ever Managed XDR service to receive its FedRAMP Authorization. David has now taken his love to take on new challenges to Adventure racing were he purposely gets lost in the woods to compete with Trail running, Mountain biking and kayaking for 100s miles. As the Global VP for Splunk’s Cyber Strategist team, David helps drive the security strategy for Splunk and its security products.

DevOps 9 Min Read

Why Lingusitic and non-Linguistic AI are Complementary

Splunk’s observability strategy has always put AI functionality at the centre. We have always recognised that, in order to make actionable sense of full fidelity data metric, event, log, and trace data streams, human cognition requires an automated assist which is precisely what AI brings to the table. As a result, throughout our observability portfolio, customers will find a variety of machine learning and pattern discovery algorithms being put to work, separating signals from noise, surfacing patterns of correlation, diagnosing root causes, and enabling remedial responses to incidents. AI, itself, is, of course, evolving at a rapid clip and with AI Assist, Splunk adds Generative or linguistic AI functionality to the mix. But what is linguistic AI and how does it relate to the non-linguistic or Foundational AI that Splunk has deployed in its products to date?
Learn 4 Min Read

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.
Security 3 Min Read

Explore the AI Frontier in Splunk’s State of Security 2024

Splunk's State of Security 2024: The Race to Harness AI report reveals the insights, aspirations, and challenges of security leaders.
Learn 7 Min Read

Availability Zones: The Complete Guide for 2024

If you use cloud services, you’ll want to be familiar with availability zones, as these play a major part in your overall cloud performance. Get the full story here.
Learn 4 Min Read

Build vs. Buy: How To Decide on Software

When your business needs software, you have a very important decision to make: will you build the solution yourself, or will you buy a software solution?
Learn 5 Min Read

Data Analysis Skills You Need To Know

Data analysis is the skill to have today. But exactly what do you need to ace to be a great data analyst? We’ve got you covered in this article.
Learn 7 Min Read

Continuous Testing: The Ultimate Guide

Continuous testing is an important aspect of software development and, yes, even cybersecurity. Get the full picture and an 8-step process here.
Splunk Life 2 Min Read

Splunk 2024 HBCU Academic Scholarship Recipients Selected

Splunk announces its 2024 HBCU Academic Scholarship recipients.
Security 6 Min Read

How To Start Threat Hunting: The Beginner's Guide

Ready to hunt threats? Starting a hunt in a new data environment? This is the place to begin! We've got you covered in this threat hunting 101 tutorial.