Somerford Blog What is Splunk’s Universal Forwarder? Author: Becca Lambert Release Date: 21/04/2023 SIGN UP TO MAILING LIST The Splunk Universal Forwarder is a streamlined iteration of the Splunk Enterprise software, tailored to facilitate the forwarding of data. Splunk itself serves as a platform, specialising in the exploration, monitoring, and examination of machine-generated data. This […]
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Somerford Blog What is HashiCorp Vault? Author: John ‘JJ’ Jarvis Release Date: 21/02/2023 By now, you’ve probably heard about HashiCorp, or at least their flagship product: Terraform, which automates the provisioning of infrastructure through what’s dubbed Infrastructure as Code, or IaC, for short. But HashiCorp offers a number of solutions in this automation space, collectively
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Somerford Blog What is Multi-Cloud Security? Release Date: 14/02/2023 In order to answer the question ‘What is Multi-Cloud Security?’ one would have to define ‘What is Cloud?’ and the answer to the latter differs depending on who you speak to. Back in the day, when clients would say “We are moving to Cloud” they would
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Somerford Blog How Varonis Helps with Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Microsoft 365 Author: Beth Laws Release Date: 06/02/2023 Why Choose Microsoft 365? Microsoft 365 aims to make collaboration easy for many organisations and has really accelerated many businesses adopting remote working as the new normal. Moving data to the cloud has helped many businesses
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Somerford Blog Managing Identities in the Public Sector with Okta Author: Grace Dolby Release Date: 19/01/2023 The Troublesome Issue of Identity within the Public Sector Managing identities in any organisation can be difficult, but within the public sector it can become even more challenging due to the various constraints on resources, compliance requirements and the
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Somerford Blog Drones on Operations: Splunking the Data Summary Drones are a common component of modern warfare. When operating they produce a tonne of machine data which can be ingested into Splunk and used to improve the operational capability of the platform as well as enhancing the commander’s decision-making process. This can be used to
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Somerford Blog How Okta Supports the Public Sector with CIAM Author: Riley Martin Release Date: 07/12/2022 Almost all of us interact with the Public Sector in one way or another on a day to day basis. From the bus drivers taking commuters to work, to health care professionals, and those that work in and directly
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Somerford Blog A Brief Introduction to Netskope’s Borderless SD-WAN Solution Release Date: 28/11/2022 Linkedin Twitter Youtube This blog post is a very high level view of SD-WAN in relation to Netskope’s offered solution and has been written to provide anyone, at any level, an understanding of the technology’s principles. What is SD-WAN? Imagine in the
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Somerford Blog Deploying Varonis at a Leading Multi-National Organisation Author: Matt Woodhams Release Date: 29/09/2022 SIGN UP TO MAILING LIST Linkedin Twitter Youtube As a Project Manager at Somerford, I am involved in delivering projects across our broad range of partner products. Each project is customer-specific and can involve unique challenges and issues, however there
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Somerford Blog 10 Ways Observability will Benefit your Organisation & How Does it Differ to Monitoring Author: Paul Winchester Date: 21/09/2022 Linkedin Twitter Youtube I.T. is changing rapidly. Monolithic software is being broken down and rebuilt using technologies such as containerisation and micro services, and these are increasingly hosted in the Cloud. DevOps approaches to
