Articles By: Splunk

10 Essential Capabilities of a Modern SOC

Security teams are hard at work on the front lines: identifying, analyzing and mitigating threats facing their organization. But despite their best efforts, incident backlogs continue to grow. The reality is that there simply aren’t enough skilled professionals to analyze the volume of incidents that most organizations face. But a modern security operations center (SOC), powered by and built on […]

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The SOAR Buyer’s Guide

Investing in a Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) platform is a wise and highly strategic decision. After all, choosing the platform to build your security operations center (SOC) on is arguably more important than choosing any point security product. But do you know what criteria you should consider when evaluating which SOAR platform to choose? Download your complimentary copy […]

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Splunk Security Predictions 2021

Our experts weigh in: How will we secure an all-digital, remote world? COVID-19, remote work, and warp-speed digital transformation mean that security teams face more challenges than ever. We’ve got thoughts on beating the bad guys in 2021: • Supply Chain Attacks: Mind your peripherals. Bad guys are targeting your accessories.• Vishing: Social engineering moves up a notch as voice-based […]

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Forrester Study: The Total Economic Impact™ of Splunk for Security Operations

Evaluating Splunk for your ML-driven security operations? Read on to discover the potential return on investment (ROI) that your organization can realize by deploying Splunk’s security solutions — enabling IT and security operations centers (SOCs) to identify, analyze and mitigate advanced cyberthreats. Through interviews, data collection and financial analysis, Forrester’s study found that Splunk reduced resources dedicated to security audits […]

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Splunk IT Operations Predictions 2021

The Data Age has arrived, accelerated by the global pandemic that pushed digital transformation to go much further, much faster. IT and technology leaders weigh in on the challenges and opportunities ahead: • Observability: Rapid shift to cloud will limit visibility; leaders won’t see it coming.• DevOps: Leading organizations will blur the line between DevOps and traditional ITOps.• Cloud: Moving […]

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How to Turn Your Data Into Business Outcomes

Data is at the center of digital initiatives and cloud technologies that are transforming businesses. These cloud-driven initiatives are introducing a new brand of complexity as data increasingly grows in volume, variety and velocity with each new source and destination. The companies best positioned for a new world awash with data are those that are prepared to drive business outcomes […]

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Gartner: Best Practices for Running Containers and Kubernetes in Production

According to industry analyst firm Gartner, “By 2025, more than 85% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, which is a significant increase from fewer than 35% in 2019.” Despite rapid adoption, Kubernetes remains an evolving technology. Gartner reports that “container usage for production deployments in organizations is still constrained by concerns around operational complexity in the […]

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Creating a DevOps-Centric Business Culture

At its heart, DevOps is about optimizing communications and collaboration among developers, quality assurance teams and IT operations. A DevOps strategy can help organizations to build, test and ship software faster while continuously improving it. The cloud is emerging as a key element of success across all DevOps operations. Notably, cloud allows even globally dispersed DevOps teams to collaborate with […]

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