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Announcing the availability of Cisco Talos Incident Response services to Splunk customers.

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Unified Strategies Across IT and Security for Cutting-Edge Detection, Investigation and Response

Splunk's Mike Horn shares a closer look at the value of a unified approach to security and observability.
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Detecting Lateral Movement Using Splunk User Behavior Analytics

The blog is to introduce lateral movement detection using Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA)
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Integrated Intelligence Enrichment With Threat Intelligence Management

Threat Intelligence Management enables analysts to fully investigate security events or suspicious activity by providing the relevant and normalized intelligence to better understand threat context and accelerate time to triage.
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Using Splunk Stream for Hunting: Finding Islands in the Stream (of Data)

Let's look at how to use the popular Splunk Stream App for our favorite purpose: threat hunting! This is part of our Threat Hunting with Splunk series.
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Splunk SOAR Playbook of the Month: Investigations with Playbooks

For this month’s edition of Playbook of the Month, we’ll look at how you can perform investigations at machine speed using Splunk SOAR and one of our investigation playbooks, Internal Host WinRM Investigate.
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Unveiling Splunk UBA 5.3: Power and Precision in One Package

Splunk celebrates the launch of User Behavior Analytics (UBA) 5.3, introducing the 20 Node XL cluster, innovative Splunk UBA models, and essential system and security upgrades.
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That Was Easy! Manage Lookup Files and Backups With the Splunk App for Lookup File Editing

The 4.0.1 release of the App for Lookup File Editing helps users mitigate issues with new features such as a backup size limit and dashboards for tracking backup size.
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Making Sense of the New SEC Cybersecurity Rules and What They Could Mean for Your Company

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) July 26 approval of new cybersecurity 'incident' disclosure rules is top of mind for every public company, and understanding what it means and how companies will be held accountable is crucial.
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Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) Takes Flight with v1.0 Schema Release

The Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) celebrates its first anniversary with the launch of a new open data schema.
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BOTS at .conf23 Wrap Up and Worldwide BOTS Day!

After four hours, 56 New Wave songs, a make-your-own donut bar, and a ton of fun, BOTS v8 made its successful debut at .conf23
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Using the Lookup Command for Threat Hunting (Lookup Before You Go-Go)

Lookup commands are basically the #1 place to start any threat hunt in Splunk. Get the expert directions here.
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Measuring Hunting Success with PEAK

Splunker David Bianco explains how an effective threat hunting program is one of the best ways to drive positive change across an organization’s entire security posture.
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Heading to Black Hat? Splunk’s Countdown Is On

Join Splunk at Black Hat 2023 to explore Splunk Attack Analyzer, SURGe research on Chrome browser extension risks, and the latest detection engineering tools from the Splunk Threat Research Team.
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Staff Picks for Splunk Security Reading July 2023

Welcome to the July 2023 edition of our Splunk staff picks blog, featuring a list of presentations, whitepapers, and customer case studies that we feel are worth a read.
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Turning Hunts Into Detections with PEAK

In this post, we’re going to look at something the PEAK framework refers to as the Hierarchy of Detection Outputs.
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Amadey Threat Analysis and Detections

The Splunk Threat Research Team shares a deep-dive analysis of the Amadey Trojan Stealer, an active and prominent malware that first emerged on the cybersecurity landscape in 2018 and has maintained a persistent botnet infrastructure ever since.
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Splunk SOAR Playbook of the Month: Threat Hunting with Playbooks

For this month’s edition of Playbook of the Month, we’ll look at how you can use Splunk SOAR’s Hunting playbook to perform threat hunting activities at machine speed.
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DevSecOps is Here! Developers and SREs, Meet the SOC Team.

As organizations strive to enhance the cyber resilience of their operations, the scope of SOC teams is expanding beyond traditional enterprise IT. Find out more in this blog.