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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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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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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 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 solution,

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Top 10 Ways to Utilise Splunk Observability

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog Top 10 Ways to Utilise Splunk Observability Author: Riley Martin Release Date: 07/05/2025 I.T. is getting more and more complex. Every day more websites are launching, more customers are looking for the next thing in their lives, and more code is being pushed to update systems. Is it any wonder that industries are

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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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The University of Exeter – Part 2: “Zero to SIEM” in 8 weeks, the Splunk Deployment

Blog / By Campbell Williams

The University of Exeter – Part 2: “Zero to SIEM” in 8 weeks, the Splunk Deployment 04/09/19 – Author: Baz Donaghue – Certified Splunk Consultant at Somerford Associates The first and subsequent steps on any organisations IT Security journey can be difficult and uncertain at the best of times. To go from little or no

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Managing Assets in Splunk Enterprise Security

Blog / By Lewis Archer

Somerford Blog Managing Assets in Splunk Enterprise Security Author: Ben Marrable In general, assets tend to be more complex as every environment is different. The first point of call will be whether the business has an up to date CMDB but a lot of the time that’s unfortunately not the case, so alternatives can be

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