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

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Staff Picks for Splunk Security Reading January 2024

Welcome to the January Splunk staff picks blog – a curated list of presentations, whitepapers, and customer case studies that Splunk security experts feel are worth a read.
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Security Insights: Jenkins CVE-2024-23897 RCE

In response to CVE-2024-23897, the Splunk Threat Research Team has developed new security detections and hunting queries to support defenders.
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Security Insights: Tracking Confluence CVE-2023-22527

In response to CVE-2023-22527, the Splunk Threat Research Team has developed new security detections to support defenders.
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Security Insights: Investigating Ivanti Connect Secure Auth Bypass and RCE

The Splunk Threat Research Team has swiftly developed Splunk analytics and hunting queries, helping defenders quickly adapt and respond to emerging threats CVE-2023-46804 and CVE-2024-21887.
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Hypothesis-Driven Cryptominer Hunting with PEAK

A sample hypothesis-driven hunt, using SURGe's PEAK threat hunting framework, looking for unauthorized cryptominers.
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AI: Keep Your Feet on the Ground

Splunk is excited about AI, but we're keeping our boots on the ground as we partner with customers to leverage AI to improve efficiency while continuing the essentials via Splunk’s platform.
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Enter The Gates: An Analysis of the DarkGate AutoIt Loader

The Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) provides a deep dive analysis of the DarkGate malware and its use of AutoIt.
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Ghost in the Web Shell: Introducing ShellSweep

Splunk introduces ShellSweep, a suite of utilities designed to detect and combat malicious web shells in servers.
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Hunting M365 Invaders: Blue Team's Guide to Initial Access Vectors

Discover insights from the Splunk Threat Research Team on Microsoft 365 threat detection, focusing on data source analysis and effective methods for hunting initial access threats.
Security 5 Min Read

OT Security Is Different, Isn’t IT?

Explore the differences between OT security and IT security, delving into industry-specific challenges and solutions, with insights into the Purdue Model and how Splunk can help.
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Staff Picks for Splunk Security Reading December 2023

Splunk security experts share their December list of presentations, whitepapers, and customer case studies that they feel are worth a read.
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Splunk Enterprise Security 7.3 Delivers a Refined Analyst Experience and Enhanced Risk Context for Seamless Incident Triage

Announcing Splunk Enterprise Security 7.3, delivering a refined analyst experience and enhanced risk context for seamless incident triage.
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Introducing Our New SOAR Integrations: Why Panorama and FortiManager Users Should Be Excited

The Splunk SOAR team shares more on the latest firewall management apps introduced in Splunk SOAR 6.2.
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Old School vs. New School

The Splunk SURGe team examines the claim that generative AI will empower threat actors to improve the scale and/or efficiency of their spear-phishing campaigns.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Reduce Operational Complexity with Splunk SOAR Logic Loops

Learn about the logic loops feature introduced in Splunk SOAR version 6.2 and how you can implement them in your own use cases and playbooks.