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

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What Keeps the CISO Awake at Night? Four Dreaded Security Headlines

Would your organization's security team be prepared if these headlines appear in tomorrow's news?
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Domestic Intelligence Service of the Federal Republic of Germany Warns About Cyber Attacks

What's happened, how to investigate if you've been affected and what you should do next.
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Knowledge is Power: Guidance from ICO and NCSC on GDPR Security Outcomes

The GDPR learnings are ongoing - are you keeping up?
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Boss of the SOC (BOTS) Investigation Workshop for Splunk

You've played BOTS with Splunk, now learn the how it all happened? This post discusses a new tutorial app that you can run on the BOTS v1 dataset to learn more about BOTS and have an educational workshop at home (or office)
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Boss of the SOC Scoring Server, Questions and Answers, and Dataset! Open-Sourced and Ready for Download

We have open-sourced the Boss of the SOC dataset (ver1.0) and BOT(S|N) scoring server. They can be used to run your own CTF, perform research, or train your internal users!
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Strengthen Your SIEM And Be Ready For The GDPR

When facing the GDPR, your SIEM solution can be a great support for your organisation's compliance strategy, but if not strengthened - it can also be your downfall.
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Use Investigation Workbench to Reduce Time to Contain and Time to Remediate

The latest version of Splunk Enterprise Security v 5.0 introduces Investigation Workbench, which streamlines investigations and accelerates incident response
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Ensuring Success with Splunk ITSI - Part 1: Thresholding Basics

Practical step-by-step guidance to configure ITSI to produce accurate and trusted alerts
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Detecting Typosquatting, Phishing, and Corporate Espionage with Enterprise Security Content Update

Splunk’s Enterprise Security Content Update (ESCU) app can provide you with early warnings and situational awareness—powerful elements of an effective defense against adversaries
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Tall Tales of Hunting with TLS/SSL Certificates

TLS and SSL certificates are a great way to hunt advanced adversaries. Collect them with Splunk Stream, Bro, or Suricata and hunt in your own data!
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Splunk Named a Leader in Gartner SIEM Magic Quadrant for the Fifth Straight Year

Gartner's 2017 Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management names Splunk a leader for the fifth straight year
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What’s Cyber Security Week like for Splunk? it-sa gold!

Two gold awards and a successful it-sa event - that's how Splunk does Cyber Security Week!
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What You Need to Know About Boss of the SOC

We introduced a new security activity at .conf2016 called “Boss of the SOC” (or BOTS), born from our belief that learning can be both realistic and fun.
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The GDPR: Ready for the wakeup call from your Data Privacy Officer?

How machine data can help organisations prepare for GDPR and support their compliance programmes
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What hygiene has to do with security: Infosec17 Recap

In a wrap up of Infosecurity Europe 2017, Matthias Maier shares the topics, trends and big win of the week.
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Splunk and Tensorflow for Security: Catching the Fraudster with Behavior Biometrics

Raising the barrier for fraudsters and attackers: how to leverage Splunk and Deep Learning frameworks to discover Behavior Biometrics patterns within user activities
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Punycode phishers - All you need to know

Unicode domains can be used for homograph attacks. Learn what they are and how users can be tricked.
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Assigning Role Based Permissions in Splunk Enterprise Security

Learn how to add a new role in Enterprise Security and apply capabilities to it