Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Greater Detection Accuracy and Faster Time-to-Value with Splunk IT Service Intelligence 4.17

We’re all juggling more complexity than ever before. Chances are you’re being pulled in multiple directions, working across teams and dealing with more tools than you’d like to. We know you want to keep everything running smoothly and don’t want to focus your time on setting things up, especially when you’re probably dealing with other fires.

Monitoring Networks with Snort IDS-IPS

Networks are the data highways upon which you build your digital transformation infrastructure. Like interstate highways transmit goods, networks transmit data. Every connected user and device is a network digital on-ramp. When malicious actors gain unauthorized access to networks, organizations must detect and contain them as quickly as possible, requiring security analysts to embark on a digital high-speed chase.

From Resurface to Graylog API Security: The Next Chapter

When I started Resurface, my core thesis was that web and API security brought unique requirements requiring purpose-built data systems. Using Splunk at scale for API monitoring was/is prohibitively expensive. Using Hadoop or Kafka requires a nerd army to run at any scale. Few data platforms include a mature web or API monitoring model, so this has to be custom-overlaid at significant expense.

Understanding Amazon Security Lake: Enhancing Data Security in the Cloud

This year, Amazon Web Services (AWS), a leading cloud services provider, announced a comprehensive security solution called Amazon Security Lake. In this blog post, we will explore what Amazon Security Lake is, how it works, the benefits for organizations, and partners you can leverage alongside it to enhance security analytics and quickly respond to security events. Image source: Amazon.

Splunk SOAR Playbook of the Month: Threat Hunting with Playbooks

As SOCs continue to grow and mature, it's vital that they establish effective and repeatable programs in proactive defense. This also means that threat hunting needs to become a critical function. Numerous advanced and sophisticated threats are able to get past more traditional cybersecurity defenses and SOCs need skilled Threat Hunters who are able to search, log, monitor, and remediate threats before they create a serious problem.

Detection as Code: How To Embed Threat Detection into Code

Like many concepts at the intersection of software engineering and cybersecurity, threat detection has emerged as a recent candidate to adopt the ‘as-code’ discipline to detection. This is driven by two key factors: Detection as Code is a new paradigm that brings a structured, systematic and flexible methodology for threat detection inspired by the as-code best practice of software engineering, commonly adopted in DevOps and Agile software development frameworks.

Baseline Hunting with the PEAK Framework

Baselines are an essential part of effective cybersecurity. They provide a snapshot of normal activity within your network, which enables you to easily identify abnormal or suspicious behavior. Baseline hunting is a proactive approach to threat detection that involves setting up a baseline of normal activity, monitoring that baseline for deviations, and investigating any suspicious activity.