The Splunk Threat Research Team recently developed a new analytic story, Active Directory Kerberos Attacks, to help security operations center (SOC) analysts detect adversaries abusing the Kerberos protocol to attack Windows Active Directory (AD) environments. In this blog post, we’ll describe some of the detection opportunities available to cyber defenders and highlight analytics from the analytic story.

Artificial intelligence has been (and continues to be) a popular topic of discussion in areas ranging from science fiction to cybersecurity. But as much fun as it might be to discuss my favorite sci-fi AI stories, let’s set aside the works of Asimov, Bradbury and other storytellers to focus on the role of AI in cybersecurity.

Call me David. As you might have heard, Log4Shell, “the single biggest, most critical vulnerability ever”1 was recently disclosed to the public. You may even have seen us make mention of it here, here, here, or even maybe here. Splunkbase was impacted by way of apps both made by Splunk and third-party developers.

Running a Kubernetes-based infrastructure is challenging and complex. Administrators often lament how complicated performance optimization and monitoring are, which can lead to problems in production. Additionally, even finely-tuned Kubernetes deployments can encounter sporadic issues. When Kubernetes starts behaving in strange ways, digging into logs can help you uncover breadcrumbs. These contextual hints can help lead you to possible solutions.

Hey There, Recently we ran a webinar ( English | German | French) in which we showed how Security Operations Teams can plan based on the MITRE ATT&CK Navigator, a threat-centric defense strategy. We also demonstrated how to operationalize it with content from the Splunk Security Essentials app via Splunk Enterprise Security. We received so many questions from attendees during the session that we weren’t able answer them all.