Splunk users now have access to Sixgill’s Darkfeed, enhancing security and threat protection

Sixgill announced that users of Splunk, the Data-for-Everything platform, will have access to Sixgill’s Darkfeed, the company’s automated stream of indicators of compromise. By leveraging Darkfeed in Splunk’s analytics-driven SIEM, en… Continue reading Splunk users now have access to Sixgill’s Darkfeed, enhancing security and threat protection

Splunk’s new APM solution unlocks real-time observability for cloud infrastructure

Splunk, provider of the Data-to-Everything Platform, announced the next release of SignalFx Microservices APM, the only application performance monitoring (APM) solution that provides customers complete observability into modern, cloud-native environme… Continue reading Splunk’s new APM solution unlocks real-time observability for cloud infrastructure

RSAC 2020 Video Interviews, Part 1

The MediaOps team was in full force at RSA Conference 2020, joining a crowd of practitioners, experts, analysts and others eager to catch up on the latest advances in cybersecurity and take the pulse of the market in general. As in years past, our Dig… Continue reading RSAC 2020 Video Interviews, Part 1

How to begin tapping the full value of your data

By making better use of data, leading organizations had materially increased revenue and reduced operational costs, boosting profitability by an average of 12.5% of their total gross profit, according to a Splunk survey. The research study surveyed 1,3… Continue reading How to begin tapping the full value of your data

Cybersecurity is a board level issue: 3 CISOs tell why

As a venture capital investor who was previously a Chief Information Security Officer, I have noticed an interesting phenomenon: although cybersecurity makes the news often and is top of mind for consumers and business customers, it doesn’t alway… Continue reading Cybersecurity is a board level issue: 3 CISOs tell why

Using the MixMode query language to integrate with splunk

Integrating MixMode with Splunk provides immediate AI based decision making to your organization. This results in fewer alerts, and more actionable data for analysts to consume.
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Security tools still among the fastest-growing apps in corporate America

More of the tools used throughout the private sector are ones that help company staffers better manage or prevent security incidents. In an analysis based on the log-in activity of more than 7,4000 customers, identity management firm Okta found that of the 10 fastest-growing apps in the enterprise, five are known at least in part for their security offerings. Adoption of the incident management tool Opsgenie, which alerts developers to possible problems, grew by 194%, while Google Cloud implementation climbed by 108%, Splunk by 102%, KnowBe4 by 89% and Jamf Pro enjoyed an 82% increase. The cloud data app Snowflake experienced the greatest uptick in adoption among Okta clients, at 273%, while Looker, visitor management software Envoy, FreshService and Zoom also saw gains over 2019. Last year, the security training platform KnowBe4 experienced the largest growth of all apps among Okta users, followed by the password manager LastPass and the […]

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Splunk tells users to patch ‘Y2K-style’ flaw

Data analytics platform Splunk has told users to patch a flaw in the company’s platform that, starting next year, would cause all sorts of problems for people trying to read and search data. The problem lies in how the data is timestamped on Splunk, which ingests information from a variety of sources.Starting Jan. 1, unpatched “instances” of the Spunk platform won’t recognize data that is stamped with a two-digit year. The issue, which affects all iterations of the Splunk platform on any operating system, would mean that users won’t get accurate results when they query threat data for key information. “As this is a critical update, there is no option to defer it,” the San Francisco-based company said in an advisory released this week. To prevent those data problems, Users can download an updated version of the file that helps the platform process timestamps, tweak the file itself, or upgrade their platform altogether. […]

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