Carl Parker, Author at Somerford Associates

Securing Data and Governing AI at Scale with Securiti

Somerford Blog Securing Data and Governing AI at Scale Author: Max Gilfedder Release Date: 20/11/2025 As organisations look to unlock the potential of AI while meeting increasing compliance and data protection obligations, many are faced with the challenge of managing data sprawl and identifying sensitive information, especially in unstructured formats across cloud environments. Securiti offers […]

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Top 5 Use Cases for Splunk SOAR (Security Orchestration Automation and Response)

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog Top 5 Use Cases for Splunk SOAR (Security Orchestration Automation and Response) Author: Tom Earl Release Date: 04/11/2025 In today’s threat-laden digital landscape, speed, accuracy and efficiency are everything. Security teams and their analysts are becoming overcome with the sheer volume of alerts, complex toolsets, and an expanding threat surface that they are

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MOD Town Hall: Reviewing Best Practice and Unlocking Future Capability

Events / By Carl Parker

Ministry of Defence (MOD) Town Hall: Reviewing Best Practice and Unlocking Future Capability A Series of Targeted Sessions for Maximising Splunk Value Across the MOD. Wednesday, 26th November 2025 🇬🇧 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM GMT Virtual Session, Microsoft Teams RESERVE YOUR SPACE ➔ Presented by: JOIN OUR MAILING LIST ➔ Setting the Scene Join

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Data You Thought You Knew – The Hidden Risks Powering Your AI

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog Data You Thought You Knew – The Hidden Risks Powering Your AI Author: The Somerford Team Release Date: 29/10/2025 AI isn’t just the next wave of enterprise tech, it’s a tsunami of change and disruption. In a matter of months, tools like Microsoft Copilot are rifling through documents to serve up insights, while

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Splunk Log ‘n’ Learn: Splunk O11Y Cloud Webinar Series

Events / By Carl Parker

Webinar Series Log ‘n’ Learn: Splunk O11y Cloud “How Splunk Observability Cloud transforms performance into resilience.” Full Series Now Available On Demand WATCH NOW ➔ Featuring: JOIN MAILING LIST ➔ Setting the Scene Master Splunk Observability Cloud: On-Demand Series The Log ‘n’ Learn: Splunk Observability Cloud Series is a three-part collection of recorded webinars, hosted

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5 Issues That Splunk Observability Cloud Solves

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog 5 Issues Splunk Observability Cloud Solves Author: Owais Ghaffar Release Date: 15/10/2025 Organisations today run on complex digital infrastructure; distributed services, hybrid clouds, container orchestration, third-party APIs, and CI/CD pipelines that ship code faster than ever. With this complexity comes fragility: slowdowns, outages, and blind spots that can quickly turn into customer complaints,

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Ensuring Your DSPM Tool Is As Effective As Possible

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog Ensuring Your DSPM Tool Is As Effective As Possible Author: Ben Norcutt Release Date: 08/10/2025 What is DSPM? You may have heard the term or even its predecessor SSPM so lets define what they actually are first. SSPM – SaaS Security Posture Management, an acronym within an acronym but basically it’s looking at

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What’s the Use (Cases) for Splunk?

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog What’s the Use (Cases) for Splunk? Author: Nik Wadge Release Date: 03/10/2025 When the marketing department asked me to write a blog, I was like “Sure, what on? I have a lot of knowledge, some of it relevant and interesting, some not so”, “How about the top ten Use Cases based on your

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How to Build a Data Pipeline with Confluent

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog How to Build a Data Pipeline with Confluent Author: Sam Ward Release Date: 29/09/2025 Defining a Data Pipeline To first get started with building data infrastructure, we first have to be familiar with the basic elements and concepts of the data pipeline. A data pipeline at its core is linking each stage of

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Splunk .conf25 Updates — Unifying Enterprise Resilience in the AI Era

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog Splunk .conf25 Updates — Unifying Enterprise Resilience in the AI Era Author: Rosie Whitfield Release Date: 17/09/2025 It has been over a year since Cisco’s strategic acquisition of Splunk, a move that was immediately recognised for its financial acumen. However, at Somerford Associates, our focus has always been on the deeper technical and

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