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.

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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced the launch of CloudWatch Metric Streams. Cloudwatch Streams can stream metrics from a number of different AWS resources using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to target destinations. What this means for current Splunk customers is they now have the option of either using the Splunk add-on of AWS to poll metrics or to make use of this new service and let Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose push metrics to a Splunk HEC endpoint, and reduce their latency by anywhere between 5 to 10 minutes.

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.

Join Splunk for our Boss of the Ops and O11y competition, where you'll race against the clock (and your peers) to handle simulated IT incidents with real-world data and use Splunk's Observability portfolio to answer the tough questions engineers and analysts face everyday.

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.

Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM), now generally available, leverages open source and OpenTelemetry standardization to help SREs and on-call engineers troubleshoot customer-facing issues faster, and optimize end-user experience.

Announcing the new Splunk Observability Cloud, bringing together the world’s best-in-class solutions for infrastructure monitoring, application performance management, digital experience monitoring, synthetic monitoring, log investigation and incident response.

Observability is not just metrics, traces, and logs. It is a mindset that lets you answer any question about your business through collection and analysis of data.