Carl Parker, Author at Somerford Associates

Identify and Respond to Email Threats Faster with KnowBe4 PhishER

Identify and Respond to Email Threats Faster with KnowBe4’s PhishER Date: 08/09/2022 Author: Andrew Weston Introduction PhishER helps security teams analyse, prioritise and manage emails that employees have reported as suspicious. With PhishER, Information Security teams can identify the most dangerous threats faster and more efficiently. The platform also helps Information Security teams quickly process […]

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How to get the best out of Splunk Real Time Searches

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog How to get the best out of Splunk Real Time Searches Author: Laurence Everitt Date: 02/09/22 SIGN UP TO MAILING LIST Linkedin Twitter Youtube In this blog post, I’m going to discuss a recurring issue that we have seen on a number of occasions- Splunk in Real Time – and by that I

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Conducting a cyber resiliency assessment

What is a Cyber Resiliency Assessment?

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog What is a Cyber Resiliency Assessment? Author: Beth Laws Release Date: 23/08/2022 Linkedin Twitter Youtube A Cyber Resiliency Assessment is one of the free Data Risk Assessments offered by Somerford and Varonis, designed to assess the exposure of an organisation’s data and test your security tools against modern day cyber attacks. Whether you’re

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Getting Data from HashiCorp Vault into Splunk

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog Getting Data from HashiCorp Vault into Splunk Author: Nik Wadge Release Date: 18/08/2022 Linkedin Twitter Youtube I’ve recently had some fun in getting data from HashiCorp’s Vault into Splunk. Why do this? Well, HashiCorp’s Vault App for Splunk is an exceptionally useful tool to view the performance, health and usage of your Vault

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What is a Cloud Security Assessment?

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog What is a Cloud Security Assessment? Release Date: 21/06/2022 A Lacework Cloud Security Assessment (CSA) is an evaluation that tests and analyses an organisation’s cloud infrastructure to ensure the organisation is protected from a variety of security risks and threats. It provides a detailed analysis of all elements of your cloud environment, including

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How to Configure Single-Sign On with Office 365

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog How to Configure Single-Sign On with Office 365 Author: Jamie Turbill Release Date: 13/06/2022 If you use Office 365 heavily, you know it’s a critical application in your organisation. It enables collaboration and communication between your employees, customers, suppliers and more and without it you simply cannot work. You May Also Like: Ensuring

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How to Get the Best Out of SAP

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog How to Get the Best Out of SAP Author: Grace Dolby Release Date: 25/05/2022 In the modern world our technology landscape spans the most legacy systems which are decades old, to services that have been spun up overnight. Of course, every time we create a new system or attempt to migrate a service,

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Extending Vault – Zero Trust with HashiCorp Boundary

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog Extending Vault: Zero Trust with HashiCorp Boundary Author: John ‘JJ’ Jarvis Release Date: 28/01/22 HashiConf Global is a wrap, and, along with loads of Kubernetes integrations, a main theme was the importance of zero trust as a security model for modern organisations. In a multi-cloud context, this can be summarised as four pillars:

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How do Okta & Varonis work together?

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog How do Okta & Varonis work together? Author: Grace Maher & Charlotte Fletcher Release Date: 21/10/21 Nearly 44% of cloud privileges are misconfigured. The impact of this is that users often have overly-broad privileges which are mis-assigned due to a security team oversight or malicious activity. This can open up an organisation to

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Top 5 Reasons to Choose HashiCorp Vault

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog Top 5 Reasons to Choose HashiCorp Vault Author: John Jarvis Release Date: 12/12/2024 What is HashiCorp Vault? HashiCorp’s Vault (just Vault hereafter) is so versatile that it makes it tough to write a post like this. It’s the swiss army knife of the security world, I think it’s fair to say; and therefore,

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