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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 […]

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

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,

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

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

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