KnowBe4 PhishER Extension – PhishRIP Date: 08/09/2022 Author: Andrew Weston Introduction PhishRIP was released in 2020, and is available to all PhishER customers at no extra charge. PhishRIP is a PhishER email quarantine feature that allows your organisation to search for user-reported emails across all of the mailboxes tied to your Microsoft 365 or Google […]
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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
Somerford Blog How to Troubleshoot Splunk Indexer Blocked Queues Author: Grace Dolby Date: 04/10/2022 SIGN UP TO MAILING LIST Linkedin Twitter Youtube Within the Somerford Support Desk we see many common themes among our customers and the cases that they raise. Recently, we have seen many being caused by blocked queues on Splunk Indexers and
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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 Comparison of Varonis On-Prem and Varonis SaaS and Why Varonis SaaS is More Cost Effective Author: Laurence Everitt Release Date: 07/05/2025 The Varonis SaaS has fewer third party licensing costs, is cheaper and quicker to install, easier to use, automates the important workflows, includes most of what people want, keeps your data inside
Somerford Blog What Does Splunk Attack Analyzer Do? Author: Jake Hammacott Release Date: 24/02/2025 In the contemporary digital landscape, malicious actors and adversaries are continuously evolving their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). They relentlessly innovate and devise increasingly sophisticated attacks aimed at circumventing the security measures implemented by legitimate organisations. These attacks can take various
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Somerford Blog Stronger Together: SecurityScorecard and Splunk Author: Andrew Weston – Security Consultant Release Date: 04/04/2019 Splunk Customers can now utilise SecurityScorecard’s certified app to improve 3rd party risk intelligence as well as gaining insights into their own cybersecurity risk. The SecurityScorecard application is now available on Splunkbase. Integrating SecurityScorecard security ratings and findings into Splunk
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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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Somerford Blog Data in Motion – Confluent vs Kafka Author: Riley Martin Release Date: 06/10/2023 When looking to set Data in Motion, a quick Google would probably get the results of Confluent and Kafka, you may even have found this blog that way! However, if you don’t have a lot of experience with real-time data
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Somerford Blog How does Netskope work with Okta? Release Date: 12/08/2021 When it comes to securing web traffic within a business there are three baseline requirements: Most Recent Post: The applicable traffic has to be inspected. The users generating the traffic have to be identified. Policies need to be created for said traffic and these
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