Splunk introduced Federated Search in July 2021 to much fanfare. We won’t go into too much detail about how it works because there is already a great writeup in a previous blog along with Splunk Federated Search documentation.
It will not come as a surprise to you that fraud and financial crime is continuing to challenge organizational business and cyber resiliency plans. Odds are you have dealt with fraud firsthand, or know someone experiencing the pains caused by fraud. Back in 2020 we shared some thoughts about how we believe leveraging a data platform like Splunk can help you gain more anti-fraud value and insights from your data and showed how you can determine what your data is worth.
A new adversary simulation tool is steadily growing in the ranks of popularity among red teamers and most recently adversaries. Brute Ratel states on its website that it "is the most advanced Red Team & Adversary Simulation Software in the current C2 Market." Many of these products are marketed to assist blue teams in validating detection, prevention, and gaps of coverage.
The Splunk Vulnerability Disclosure SVD-2022-0604 published the existence of an attack where the dashboards in certain Splunk Cloud Platform and Splunk Enterprise versions may let an attacker inject risky search commands into a form token.
With the easy availability of tools and knowledge, cyberattacks have run rampant, putting pressure on organizations to better defend themselves. Security is a continuous process that grows over time — exactly why organizations need to create a strong foundation. Two important questions every organization has asked themselves: Where do we start, and have we done enough?
Cyber hygiene has become a highly visible topic in all business segments. Creating software and new features happens at a very fast pace — requiring lots of internal processes and operations to keep this up to date. However, it's also very important to be concerned with the fundamentals of information security in order to keep the company's digital assets protected. In this post, we'll discuss in detail the concept of cyber hygiene and some good practices to follow.
