Somerford Blog How does Netskope work with Okta? When it comes to securing web traffic within a business there are three baseline requirements: 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 have to be applied to applicable […]
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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
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Somerford Blog Grafana Cloud Metrics(The 4 Pillars Of Observability) Author: Oscar Moores Release Date: 02/02/2026 A Recap on Grafana’s Capabilities We will be taking a look at metrics in Grafana during this article – what they are and what you can do with them. To understand what metrics can do in Grafana Cloud it is
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Somerford Blog How Delinea’s Iris AI Is Automating the Manual Nightmare of PAM Auditing Author: Matt Ord Release Date: 26/01/2026 The Data Graveyard Most companies record privileged sessions with one goal in mind: checking a box for regulations like SOC2, HIPAA, or PCI-DSS. On paper, they’re compliant and in theory if a breach happens they
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Somerford Blog What is Splunk POD? Author: Jake Hammacott Release Date: 22/01/2026 Splunk POD (Platform on Demand) integrates Splunk Enterprise software and Cisco UCS hardware into a standardised, semi-automated deployment. This pre-packaged solution of software and hardware streamlines the deployment process, leading to a faster time to value with Splunk and less complexity in managing
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Somerford Blog A Business & Competitive Edge: Cisco + Splunk + AppDynamics Author: Bhuvnesh Yadav Release Date: 18/01/2025 So before we dive into how Splunk and AppDynamics are coming together under Cisco’s umbrella, let me quickly walk you through what these platforms actually do. AppDynamics, which Cisco acquired back in January 2017, is an industry-leading
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Somerford Blog Grafana Cloud: Observability and Visualisation Made Easy (4 Pillars of Observability Part #1) Author: Oscar Moores Release Date: 20/01/2026 What is Grafana? When I first discovered Grafana Cloud I looked at what was in front of me and thought to myself: “That’s a pretty cool way of visualising data”. I hooked up an
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Somerford Blog What is Splunk APM? Author: Daniel Gray Release Date: 10/12/2025 Introducing Application Performance Monitoring As modern systems scale across containers, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud environments, traditional monitoring often falls short. Sampling traces or siloing data means you lose the full picture of what’s happening inside your applications, this leads to blind spots in your
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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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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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