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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.

Security 17 Min Read

Deploy, Test, Monitor: Mastering Microsoft Defender ASR with Atomic Techniques in Splunk

Explore Microsoft Defender ASR's role in cybersecurity with Splunk and learn deployment, testing, and monitoring strategies for robust defense.
Learn 4 Min Read

Network Latency & How To Improve Latency

Latency is the delay that happens in computer networking. It's not easy to control, but there are ways to improve it. Get the full story here.
Learn 6 Min Read

Log Management: Introduction & Best Practices

Log management, a building block for observability, is a crucial IT practice. Understand the concepts, goals and best practices — including a simple tutorial.
Learn 5 Min Read

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Explained

Cyber-physical systems, CPS: the applications of cyber physical systems are almost boundless. Get the full story here.
Security 3 Min Read

Updated Baseline Creation and Dashboards in OT Security Add-on for Splunk Version 2.3

Version 2.3 of the OT Security Add-on for Splunk is here and it delivers three main updates.
Learn 3 Min Read

The Twofish Encryption Algorithm

Twofish is not vulnerable to a simple brute force attack, but is it the right choice for you? Get the full story here.
Learn 5 Min Read

Data Privacy: The Ultimate Guide

Data privacy awareness is on the rise, and that can mean big changes for business. Understand what data privacy might mean for you.
Industries 4 Min Read

Bringing It Together: How Fusion Centers Drive Financial Services Resilience

To address ongoing challenges in financial services, SecOps, ITOps, and engineering teams are turning to Fusion Centers to help tackle rising cybercrime and become more resilient in the face of more nefarious attacks.
Security 5 Min Read

SOC Models: In-House, Out-Sourced, or Hybrid SOC?

Splunk's Kirsty Paine shares best practices from a roundtable held at Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2023.