James Hodgkinson

James works as a Security Strategist within the SURGe team at Splunk. He calls Brisbane, Australia home and has spent much of his career supporting the state law enforcement and emergency services. When he's not solving problems in Python, he's being "that guy" about how Rust avoids the bugs of the past, or contributing to open source projects. He claims it's rarely DNS.

Security 8 Min Read

Observability Meets Security: Build a Baseline To Climb the PEAK

Splunker James Hodgkinson looks at how to apply the baseline hunting process to some common O11y data sources and shows how the OpenTelemetry standard offers easier data analysis.

Security 3 Min Read

Observability Meets Security: Tracing that Connection

Splunker James Hodgkinson looks at how you can use traces to see directly into the workings of an application to find a potential threat.

Security 11 Min Read

LLM Security: Splunk & OWASP Top 10 for LLM-based Applications

Threats to LLMs are real. Let’s look at top LLM threats and show you how, with Splunk, you can better defend LLM-based applications and their users.

Security 6 Min Read

Embracing Observability Tools to Empower Security Incident Response

Bridge the gap between development and security with OpenTelemetry and observability tools.

Security 5 Min Read

Add to Chrome? - Part 2: How We Did Our Research

SURGe explores the analysis pipeline in more detail and digs into the two main phases of this research – how the team collected the data and how they analyzed it.