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Stronger Together: SecurityScorecard and Splunk

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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Conducting a cyber resiliency assessment

What is a Cyber Resiliency Assessment?

Blog / By Carl Parker

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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Data in Motion – Confluent vs Kafka

Blog / By Carl Parker

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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How does Netskope work with Okta?

Blog / By Carl Parker

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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Configuring Data Loss Prevention for Your Web Traffic when Using Netskope

Blog / By Penny Harrison

Somerford Blog Configuring Data Loss Prevention for Your Web Traffic When Using Netskope Release Date: 09/08/2022 In this blog we are going to be looking at just how easy it is to configure Data Loss Prevention, content aware policies on your web traffic when using Netskope. The machine I am currently on is a server

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Netskope Home Workers | Private Access

Blog / By Campbell Williams

Somerford Blog Netskope Home Workers | Private Access Author: Dan Reeder Release Date: 07/09/21 While remote working is the norm for many businesses, over the last 18 months others have had to rethink the ways in which they work and adapt to running their workforce remotely. A huge part of this is not only access to

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Splunk Enterprise on AWS – A Perfect Match!

Blog / By Carl Parker

Splunk Enterprise on AWS – A Perfect Match! Release Date: 27/05/2020 Author: Jamie Turbill So you’ve got Splunk Enterprise on-premises and all around you the applications you use daily are increasingly being deployed in the Cloud. Your business has adopted a cloud migration strategy and now you are scrambling to know where to put Splunk!

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Identify and Respond to Email Threats Faster with KnowBe4 PhishER

Blog / By Carl Parker

Identify and Respond to Email Threats Faster with KnowBe4’s PhishER Date: 08/09/2022 Author: Andrew Weston Introduction PhishER helps security teams analyse, prioritise and manage emails that employees have reported as suspicious. With PhishER, Information Security teams can identify the most dangerous threats faster and more efficiently. The platform also helps Information Security teams quickly process

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Automated Threat Analysis from Splunk and Somerford

Blog post: Splunk ITSI – getting to the heart of the problem

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog ITSI – Getting to the Heart of the Problem Author: Andy Gibbs Release Date: 26/06/2019 Its 3 o’clock in the morning and you are unceremoniously awoken by your smartphone. That beautiful dream you were just having dissolves into a stark reality – you’re being beckoned onto a priority 1 emergency incident call. Critical

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Extending Vault – Zero Trust with HashiCorp Boundary

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog Extending Vault: Zero Trust with HashiCorp Boundary Author: John ‘JJ’ Jarvis Release Date: 28/01/22 HashiConf Global is a wrap, and, along with loads of Kubernetes integrations, a main theme was the importance of zero trust as a security model for modern organisations. In a multi-cloud context, this can be summarised as four pillars:

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