Carl Parker, Author at Somerford Associates

Splunk O11y Cloud Showcase: Total Monitoring and Rapid Resolution with AIOps and Incident Management

On-Demand Webinar/Workshop / By Carl Parker

Splunk O11y Cloud Showcase: Total Monitoring, Rapid Resolution and Incident Management Discover complete trace visibility, full-fidelity tracing, Log Observer, tag analytics, and more. WATCH ON DEMAND SIGN UP TO MAILING LIST About the Webinar Join Dan Gray, Splunk Observability Sales Engineer at Somerford, as he introduces the Splunk Observability Suite! Discover how the Splunk Observability […]

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Splunk ITSI Showcase: Understanding Operational Intelligence

On-Demand Webinar/Workshop / By Carl Parker

Splunk ITSI Showcase: Understanding Operational Intelligence Discover the importance of operational intelligence in our Splunk ITSI Showcase. WATCH ON DEMAND SIGN UP TO MAILING LIST What is Operational Intelligence (OI)? It is a suite of business analytics systems that support real-time decision-making. OI collects data feeds representing current business operations and relevant external factors, analysing

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How to Filter Events From Two Sources with One Common Field

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog How to Filter Events From Two Sources with One Common Field Author: Grace Dolby Release Date: 26/02/2024 Introduction Often the power of Splunk can really be shown by correlating data that previously would have been very disparate or difficult to compare together. By leveraging Splunk’s flexible and verbose search language, you can ask

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Getting Started with Kubernetes

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog Getting Started with Kubernetes Author: Oliver Knapp Release Date: 20/02/2024 What is Kubernetes? Join me to uncover the value that can be obtained from Kubernetes when getting started, discussing what it actually is, how it can be used, and also, as the name suggests, how you can begin to use it to drive

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Are You Ready to Implement Microsoft Copilot Safely?

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog Are You Ready to Implement Microsoft Copilot Safely? Author: Beth Laws Release Date: 14/02/2024 Copilot is Microsoft’s new AI tool that is designed to accelerate productivity in the Microsoft 365 suite. Although it can be a beneficial tool for businesses, there are issues to consider before leveraging Copilot. Copilot uses users’ accessible data

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Achieving Security Maturity — Splunk Risk-Based Alerting Series

On-Demand Webinar/Workshop / By Carl Parker

Achieving Security Maturity—Splunk Risk-Based Alerting Series How to enhance your defence strategies for your digital landscape with Splunk RBA. WATCH ON DEMAND SIGN UP TO MAILING LIST About the Series Discover how Splunk’s Risk-Based Alerting (RBA) empowers organisations to transition from reactive responses to proactive defence strategies, promoting maturity in cybersecurity practices. Our 3-part webinar

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5 Tips to Help you Optimise your Splunk Searches

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog 5 Tips to Help you Optimise your Splunk Searches Author: Dan Gray Release Date: 01/02/2024 Splunk is a great tool for aggregating and interrogating the data you hold but to really get the best value out of your data you should be utilising search best practices. I’ll outline here some of the best

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How Varonis Protects your Cloud Data

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog How Varonis Protects Your Cloud Data Author: Beth Laws Release Date: 30/01/2024 Lots of businesses have made the change to working with hybrid environments, and some even now operate solely using cloud platforms. Varonis is compatible with many cloud data repositories and platforms, including M365, Salesforce, Google Drive and more. Varonis can assist

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What is HashiCorp Consul?

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog What is HashiCorp Consul? Author: John ‘JJ’ Jarvis Release Date: 24/01/2024 Consul is a service networking solution. But what do we mean by that? Well, when we’re talking about what HashiCorp calls the Cloud Operating Model, we have to change our approach, on many fronts: if there is still a ticketing system of

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How Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) Work

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog How Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) Work Author: Carl Parker Release Date: 19/01/2024 What are Advanced Persistent Threats? When belligerent parties target a business’ data and infrastructure in threatening attacks, the most commonly considered strategy is a fast, quickly spreading virus that searches for valuable information, then retreats as quickly as it entered. Advanced

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