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Featured Articles
SOAR on Azure Now Available
Splunk Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) is now available as a native SaaS solution on Azure.
What Is Cyber Hygiene? Introduction, Best Practices, and Next Steps for Organizations
One approach to a cybersecurity strategy, cyber hygiene is the way of creating a structured, intelligent environment that reduces the risk of contamination.
The High Cost of Security Investigations
Splunk Asset & Risk Intelligence (ARI) can significantly reduce investigation costs, improve analyst efficiency, and accelerate threat containment.
Expanding the Splunk Academic Alliance to Nurture Tomorrow’s Cybersecurity Leaders
The Splunk Academic Alliance Program offers free Splunk Enterprise licenses, training, and now Splunk ES & SOAR.
Embracing Flexibility to Do Great Work
Work in the ways that work for you. Learn how Splunkers define flexibility, and how they work with their teams to make the best work happen.
Security
Logs Are for Campfires: Integrate and Innovate With Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence
Splunker Jerald Perry explains how to stay ahead of threats with streamlined workflows and comprehensive insights into your security posture.
Exploring AI for Vulnerability Investigation and Prioritisation
Splunker James Hodgkinson explains how AI-driven tools can revolutionize vulnerability investigation and prioritization.
Supercharge Your SOC Investigations with Splunk SOAR 6.4
Splunker Nick Hunter explains how to integrate Cisco Talos threat intelligence, leverage Azure scalability, and streamline investigations.
Security Staff Picks To Read This Month, Handpicked by Splunk Experts
Every month, our Splunk staff of security experts share their favorite reads of the month — this way, you can follow the most interesting, news-worthy, and innovative stories coming from the wide world of cybersecurity.
SNARE: The Hunters Guide to Documentation
Discover the SNARE framework for effective threat hunting documentation.
Hey SDDL SDDL: Breaking Down Windows Security One ACE at a Time
Explore SDDL in Windows security with our comprehensive guide to help enhance your defensive strategy against privilege escalation attacks.
Learn
SIEM: Security Information & Event Management Explained
SIEM is a cybersecurity game-changer, especially for large organizations. Learn key SIEM features and functions & how to choose the right SIEM tool.
IT and Technology Spending & Budgets for 2025: Trends & Forecasts
Tech & IT spending is on the rise in 2025 across the globe. Read more on investment trends and see which regions will spend the most.
What Are SLMs? Small Language Models, Explained
Large language models have changed the world. What about small language models? Learn what SLMs are, how they differ from LLMs, and why SLMs are the future.
Telemetry 101: An Introduction To Telemetry
Telemetry is powerful data that can tell you all sorts of important information. Know what you can do with this useful data — get the full telemetry 101 here.
What are SaaS, PaaS, & IaaS?
Yes, the cloud makes work better. But which cloud model is right for you? Understand how SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS works in this ultimate guide.
What is Observability? An Introduction
In this blog post, we'll look at definitions, best practices, and key concepts around Observability in IT.
Latest Articles
Staff Picks for Splunk Security Reading July 2022
Welcome to the Splunk staff picks blog. Each month, Splunk security experts curate a list of presentations, whitepapers, and customer case studies that we feel are worth a read.
Welcome to the Future of Data Search & Exploration
Introducing the new SPL2 Search Experience for Splunk Cloud, accelerating the data-to-insight workflow, and bringing the power of Splunk to everyone – learn more here.
SPL With No Joins
You always join on time with Splunk - so you don't need to run explicit joins with your records.
ML Detection of Risky Command Exploit
Discover how to use machine learning algorithms to develop methods for detecting misuse or abuse of risky SPL commands to further pinpoint a true security threat.
Trunk-Based Development vs. GitFlow: Which Source Code Control is Right for You?
Understand trunk-based development and GitFlow, two source code management approaches, so you can decide which is right for your developer environment.
Executive Lookout: Observing Observability
Get a grip on your Observability world with a 10,000ft view of usage and uptake with free Executive Dashboards from the Splunk Observability Content Contribution repository.
What Is TBD? Trunk-Based Development & Its Role in CI/CD
Trunk-based development is a popular way to control source code when developing apps. Learn how TBD works, how it supports CI/CD, and when to avoid it.
Splunk Security Essentials 3.6.0: A Holistic View of Your Security
Check out all the new features being released in Splunk Security Essentials 3.6.0.
The Next Frontier for Observability: Data Ownership with OpenTelemetry
Owning observability telemetry data has many benefits. This article explains why OpenTelemetry is the right way to own this data instead of relying on a vendor.
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