David Dalling's Blog Posts

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.

Splunk Life 2 Min Read

The Endless Possibilities of Diverse Thinking

Splunk's Tom Casey reflects on what it means to be neurodivergent and how valuable it is to include people with different brains.

Learn 3 Min Read

Incident Review: How To Conduct Incident Reviews & Postmortems

Reviewing incidents or doing an “incident postmortem” helps your team learn from incidents. Learn the best ways to maximize the value in your incident review practice.

DevOps 11 Min Read

Don’t Live in the Past - APM 3.0 and Why You Need It

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) as a discipline and as a collection of supporting technologies has evolved rapidly since a distinct recognisable market for APM products first emerged in the 2007 - 2008 time frame. While there are many who would argue that APM has mutated into or been replaced by Observability, it makes more sense to see APM as one of many possible use cases now able to exploit the functionalities that Observability brings to the table - particularly when combined with AI.

Learn 3 Min Read

What is Data Center Security?

Get started with data center security (on-premises and cloud), including what it encompasses, how to secure data centers and important standards to consider.

Learn 6 Min Read

Business Process Reengineering (BPE) Explained

Let’s face it: processes at work don’t always work. Business process reengineering helps you stay on top of constant change while still accomplishing your most important goals.

Learn 3 Min Read

Data & Database Normalization Explained: 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.

Security 12 Min Read

Detecting & Hunting Named Pipes: A Splunk Tutorial

Named pipes can be threats, too. In this comprehensive article, we are going to talk about detecting, hunting and investigating named pipes.

Learn 8 Min Read

9 Best Data Analysis Tools to Work With in 2024

Data analysis is an imperative, but how do you do it well? Start with these top data analyst tools, put together like only professional data analysts can.

Learn 8 Min Read

Data Mining: The Ultimate Introduction

Data mining is the sophisticated analysis of data. Learn how it helps to discover patterns and relationships within large datasets, informing strategic decisions.