AWS offers a variety of technologies that help organizations adopt cloud-based solutions and often promote overall cybersecurity. As with any complex technology, AWS solutions are also exposed to the risk of security vulnerabilities.

Picture this: A crowd of people suddenly, without warning, enter a tiny shop, with room for only a handful of customers. All these extra people make it impossible for customers to get in or get out. Those extra people do not intend to shop — instead they want to disrupt the regular business operations. All this traffic jam-packs the shop, preventing it from carrying out normal business operations.

Effectively detecting, investigating and responding to security threats is not easy. SIEM can help — a lot. SIEM is cybersecurity technology that provides a single, streamlined view of your data, insight into security activities, and operational capabilities so you can stay ahead of cyber threats.

Following our announcement of Splunk Attack Analyzer in July 2023, we are excited to announce the launch of the Splunk Add-on for Splunk Attack Analyzer and Splunk App for Splunk Attack Analyzer. These offerings help us bolster our unified security operations experience by bringing threat analysis results from Splunk Attack Analyzer into the Splunk platform. The challenges with hiring top talent to staff a modern Security Operations Center (SOC) are ubiquitous.

Cybersecurity means protecting computer and network systems against intrusion, theft or damage, and is the main line of defense against a vast number of digital adversaries. Most organizations rely on different cybersecurity frameworks to defend themselves from attacks. These frameworks define best practices — including security auditing, security policy development, key cybersecurity tools and methods for monitoring security conditions over time.

Splunk has been named #1 SIEM Provider in the Worldwide Security Information and Event Management Market Shares, 2022: The Multitude of SIEMs (doc #US51012523, July 2023). The continued recognition from IDC as a SIEM market Leader is a testament to our commitment to delivering a data-centric, modern solution that delivers data-driven insights for full-breadth visibility for our users.

In 2022, a German security researcher disclosed that he had gained remote control of over 25 electric vehicles. In doing so, he was able to access numerous onboard features of these vehicles such as querying the vehicle location, disabling security features, unlocking doors, and starting the engine. The security flaw that allowed this break was not with the vehicle’s system itself, but presented by an open source companion application.

Safeguarding an organization’s virtual realms has never been more important. Today, connectivity and data are the new currency. Yet, as technology advances, so do the malicious actors and their methods, constantly devising more unique and covert ways to breach defenses. Herein lies the role of detection engineering. Acting as the digital watchtower for organizations, detection engineering responds to known threats and continuously scans the horizon for the slightest hint of a potential breach.