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

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SOAR in Seconds with Splunk Feature Overviews

Get a quick overview of Splunk's SOAR tool, Splunk Phantom, and the main features within.
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TruSTAR Intel Workflows Series: 3 Stages of the Prioritized Indicator Intel Workflow

This blog series explains our motivations for building this feature, how it works, and how users can better inform security operations. In this section, we dive into the three stages of the Prioritized Indicator Intel Workflow.
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Little Code, Big Impact: Easily Scale your Security Automation with Splunk SOAR

Discover how our latest revision of Splunk Phantom’s 'custom functions' make playbook creation and execution faster and easier than ever with the ability to create shareable custom code across playbooks while introducing complex data objects into the playbook execution path.
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DarkSide Ransomware: Splunk Threat Update and Detections

Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) replicated the DarkSide Ransomware Attack and has released an Analytic Story with several detection searches directed at community shared IOCs.
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Presidential Executive Order: “Collect and Preserve” Incident Data. Is this the Catalyst for Cybersecurity’s Black Box?

President Biden’s Executive Order (EO) on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity defines a solid path forward for the Federal government and its suppliers to address systemic problems in defending cyberspace.
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The DarkSide of the Ransomware Pipeline

Learn about the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and how you can start detecting and remediating DarkSide's activities and attack using Splunk.
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A Threat As Old As The Internet: Why We Still Care About Malware (And Why You Should Too)

Splunk's CISO Yassir Abousselham dives into why — as IT and security leaders — we need to come up with comprehensive strategies to specifically mitigate malware attacks.
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Threat Hunter Intelligence Report

Welcome to Splunk’s Threat Hunter Intelligence Report, a monthly series brought to you by Splunk’s threat hunting and intelligence (THI) team sharing the latest cybersecurity threats and trends to help organizations stay one step ahead of adversaries, one report at a time.
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TruSTAR Intel Workflows Series: Automating Data Workflows to Unlock Investments in SIEM, SOAR and XDR

We recently introduced TruSTAR Intel Workflows.This blog series explains our motivations for building this feature, how it works, and how users can better inform security operations. This is Part 2: How TruSTAR Intel Workflows Work.
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Find the Fingerprints and Traces of Threats with Splunk at RSAC 2021

Splunk's heading to RSAC 2021, are you? Take a peak at our upcoming sessions and don't forget to tune into our CEO Doug Merritt's keynote when he takes the RSAC main stage.
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Splunk SOAR Playbooks: Suspicious Email Domain Enrichment

This playbook focuses specifically on domain names contained in the ingested email, and it uses Cisco Umbrella Investigate to add the risk score, risk status, and domain category to the event in Splunk SOAR.
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Cybersecurity’s Moneyball Transformation

What do baseball and cybersecurity have in common? Nothing, at first glance. But, take a deeper look and you can see the glaring similarities. That's because cybersecurity is going through its Moneyball transformation right now. Read this blog post to learn more.
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TruSTAR Intel Workflows Series: Shifting from App-Centric to Data-Centric Security Operations

TruSTAR recently introduced API 2.O featuring TruSTAR Intel Workflows. This blog series will explain our motivations for building this feature, how it works, and how users can better inform security operations.
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Clop Ransomware Detection: Threat Research Release, April 2021

Discover how the Splunk Threat Research Team focused their research efforts on Clop Ransomware detections to help organizations detect abnormal behavior faster before it becomes detrimental.
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Splunk and Zscaler Utilize Data and Zero Trust to Eradicate Threats

Splunk and Zscaler have partnered to deliver a superior approach to security. Our tightly integrated, best-of-breed cloud security and security analytics platforms deliver a cloud experience for the modern, cloud-first enterprise.
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SUPERNOVA Redux, with a Generous Portion of Masquerading

A review of the Pulse Secure attack where the threat actor connected to the network via a the Pulse Secure virtual private network (VPN), moved laterally to its SolarWinds Orion server, installed the SUPERNOVA malware, and collected credentials, all while masquerading the procdump.exe file and renamed it as splunklogger.exe.
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Streamlining Vulnerability Management with Splunk Phantom

Manage the entire lifecycle of vulnerability management with automation and orchestration using Splunk’s SOAR technology, Splunk Phantom, to automate actions and reduce the time spent on patch management by 40%.