Somerford Blog How to Optimise your SIEM Platform Author: Jack Hancox Release Date: 27/08/2026 What is a SIEM Platform? SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) solutions are the backbone of enterprise security operations. They play a crucial role in detecting and responding to security threats, providing visibility into the security landscape, and enabling informed decision-making.
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What is Chainguard? Rethinking Software Supply Chain Security Author: Frazer Brown Release Date: 09/10/2026 Modern software development depends heavily on open-source software. From container images and programming languages to libraries and application dependencies, developers rely on components created and maintained outside their own organisations. That reliance brings enormous benefits in terms of speed, innovation and
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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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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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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 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 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 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 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 Grafana Cloud Metrics(The 4 Pillars Of Observability Part #2) 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
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