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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.
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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
Enhanced Maintenance Experience in Splunk Cloud Platform
Splunk is excited to announce a significant upgrade to our maintenance experience, designed to provide you with greater control and minimal impact.
Snort Rules 101: Examples & Use Cases for Snort Network Defense
Learn how Snort rules enhance network defense by identifying and blocking potential threats, providing customizable protection against evolving cyberattacks.
Splunk in One Word
In celebration of Customer Experience Day 2024, we share a closer look at how our customers perceive and describe Splunk.
Data Pipelines & Optimizing Pipeline Efficiency
Data pipelines: everyone has one, but exactly what are they? We're telling the full story here, including why data pipelines are only growing in importance.
Information vs. Operational Technology: IT vs. OT Explained
Explore the differences between IT and OT, their roles in cybersecurity, and how their convergence is reshaping industrial efficiency and safeguarding critical systems.
What Is Lateral Movement?
Lateral movement is one way threat actors can exploit your protected systems and networks. Get the full story here.
Splunk Cloud Attains FedRAMP High Authorization
Splunk is proud to announce that Splunk Cloud Platform has received FedRAMP authorization at a High impact level from the General Services Administration (GSA) FedRAMP Program Management Office (PMO).
IT Strategic Planning: A How-To Guide
An IT strategy is a specific plan for how digital technology and assets should be used to meet organizational goals. Read on for how to create your own IT strategy.
What’s Chaos Monkey? Its Role in Modern Testing
Chaos Monkey is an open-source tool that software developers can use to simulate chaos and test the resilience and reliability of their systems.
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