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Featured Articles
Top 5 Reasons to Attend .conf25 in Boston
Here are the top five reasons you won't want to miss Splunk .conf25 – registration is now open.
Enter the SOC of the Future in Splunk’s State of Security 2025
Splunk's State of Security 2025: The Stronger, Smarter SOC of the Future reveals the insights, aspirations, and challenges of security leaders.
AI and the Data Value Challenge: Why It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules of Data Management
Splunk's 'The New Rules of Data Management: Creating Value in the AI Era' report captures trending shifts in data management and examines how organizations are structuring — and should be potentially rethinking — their data strategies.
SOAR on Azure Now Available
Splunk Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) is now available as a native SaaS solution on Azure.
The Splunkie Awards Are Back for 2025 — Let the Nominations Begin!
Nominate data rockstars for the 2025 Splunkie Awards! Recognize customers and partners driving innovation with Splunk.
Imposters at the Gate: Spotting Remote Employment Fraud Before It Crosses the Wire
Remote Employment Fraud actors don’t steal credentials—they’re issued them. This blog explores early detection and why security can’t face this threat alone.
Security
Defending at Machine Speed: Guiding LLMs with Security Context
Enhance LLM performance for cybersecurity tasks with few-shot learning, RAG, & fine-tuning guide models for accurate PowerShell classification.
Splunk Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025
Splunk has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Security Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025.
Security Staff Picks To Read This Month, Handpicked by Splunk Experts
Our Splunk security experts share their favorite reads of the month so you can follow the most interesting, news-worthy, and innovative stories coming from the wide world of cybersecurity.
Splunk Security Content for Threat Detection & Response: May Recap
There are 13 new analytics and 4 new analytic stories now available in Splunk Enterprise Security via the ESCU application update process.
Splunk Security Ops: Building the Blueprint for Success
Learn how Splunk Global Security runs ops at scale and enables the business by focusing on what matters—solving problems through data, automation, and collaboration.
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
Log4Shell - Detecting Log4j Vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) Continued
Good news, you can use Splunk to proactively hunt using Network Traffic and DNS query logs data sources to detect potential Log4Shell exploit. From Splunk SURGe, learn even more detections against CVE-2021-44228.
Splunk Cloud Self-Service: Announcing The New Admin Config Service API For Private Applications
Learn more about how customers can leverage the new ACS private app management to gain more value from their Splunk deployment.
Splunk Security Advisory for Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046 and others)
Splunk is currently reviewing our supported products for impact and evaluating options for remediation and/or or mitigation.Please return to this posting for the most up to date information.
Active Directory Lateral Movement Detection: Threat Research Release, November 2021
The Splunk Threat Research Team recently updated the Active Directory Lateral Movement analytic story to help security operations center (SOC) analysts detect adversaries executing these techniques within Windows Active Directory (AD) environments.
Log4Shell - Detecting Log4j 2 RCE Using Splunk
A serious remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) in the popular open source Apache Log4j logging library poses a threat to thousands of applications and third-party services that leverage this library. From Splunk SURGe, learn how you can detect Log4j 2 RCE using Splunk.
High Five: The Latest Integrations from Splunk, Microsoft and GitHub
Get the latest on new integrations from Splunk, Microsoft and GitHub in this roundup on the latest updates.
Transforming and Expanding our Talent Pipeline with the Year Up Program
Year Up is a program committed to closing the Opportunity Divide by ensuring equitable access to economic opportunity, education, and justice for all young adults — no matter their background, income, or zip code. Hear from Splunk's Andy Hershey as he discusses Splunk's partnership with the Year Up program.
Introducing… Splunk for iPad!
Splunk for iPad is available to all Splunk Cloud Platform or Splunk Enterprise customers TODAY in the iOS app store. Make better, faster decisions and make it simple for anyone to access, explore, and understand Splunk data on-the-go.
Splunk Supports the Rural Technology Fund
Splunk is proud to partner with the Rural Technology Fund (RTF) Golden Ticket fundraiser to support technology-related education and scholarships.
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