Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Whether you’re an Apple fan or not, one of the reasons people buy into their ecosystem is ease of setup across different devices. In a world where people customize the applications on their laptops to cross over with their mobile phones, an easy setup is a key to getting the most value from their devices. However, in the world of security information and event management (SIEM) solutions, the time to value often takes longer than most security teams want to admit.

We’re honored to share that Splunk has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Security Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025. Splunk is committed to power the SOC of the Future by providing a unified threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) experience — no matter their deployment requirements.

“Too many alerts mean missing the real threats.” Alert fatigue is one of the top threats to a SOC’s performance. When everything looks like a threat, nothing does. The tradeoff is disabling rules, overly tuning rules, or simply ignoring alerts just to stay afloat. The risk? High-value, low-noise threats slip through the cracks.

Large Language Models (LLMs) provide strong reasoning and data summarization capabilities, making them valuable proxies for a variety of cybersecurity operations tasks. However, their performance can decline when applied to highly specific or enterprise-contextual tasks, particularly if the models rely solely on public internet data.

Alert fatigue is a common phenomenon in Security Operations Centers (SOCs). It’s the digital equivalent of crying wolf. As SOCs are flooded with a relentless stream of alerts—many of which are low priority or false positives—it becomes increasingly difficult to identify truly critical security threats. Analysts are stuck spending countless hours verifying, contextualizing, analyzing, and acting on information, often at the cost of missing out on critical alerts.

For many Security Operations Center (SOC) teams, every day feels like a balancing act just shy of burnout. The alerts don’t stop. The tooling gets in the way more than it helps. And analysts—the people at the heart of security operations—are left trying to untangle signals in a sea of noise, pressure, and constant escalation. This isn’t just a tooling issue. It’s a deeper misalignment: the gap between what SIEM was supposed to be and what security teams actually need.

Think back to being in high school and wanting to leave the room during class. Your teacher would give you a hall pass to show anyone monitoring the halls that you had permission to walk around. Your behavior, walking around during the class period, was suspect unless you followed the rule, getting a hall pass. For security teams, rule-based intrusion detections are the hall monitors that look for behaviors that indicate a problem.

If you have ever built a LEGO set, then you have a general idea of how telemetry works. Telemetry starts with individual data points, just like your LEGO build starts with a box of bricks. In complex IT environments, your security telemetry is spread across different technologies and monitoring tools, just like in a large build your LEGO bricks come separated into smaller, individually numbered bags. In both cases, the individual bricks or data points aren’t special.

At RSAC 2025 Conference we announced new innovations to Splunk Security. Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of Splunk Enterprise Security 8.1. Splunk becomes the only vendor to bring truly unified threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) workflows fueled by automation to both customer managed deployments and FedRAMP Moderate environments.