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Simplify Infrastructure Provisioning with Somerford’s ATIP App

Somerford Blog Simplify Infrastructure Provisioning with Somerford’s ATIP App Author: Jordan Phillpotts Release Date: 05/01/2024 It’s the age-old problem, how do I host my applications or web services? Okay maybe not age old but certainly it’s something any burgeoning tech company would be thinking about, do you go for on-premises, off-site, or cloud? And how […]

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How to Provision and Deprovision users within Okta

Blog / By Campbell Williams

Somerford Blog How to Provision and De-Provision users within Okta Author: Shaq Duffus-Gordon Release Date: 05/07/2023 How do you Provision an Un-Provisioned user? The benefits of provisioning with Okta are that Okta can create/read/update accounts for all users and can remove accounts when users get deactivated. Provisioning can also save time when setting up new

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Splunk Edge Hub Use Cases

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog Splunk Edge Hub Use Cases Author: Becca Lambert Release Date: 22/08/2024 What is the Splunk Edge Hub? Splunk Edge Hub is a fully integrated hardware and software solution with integrated sensors and all the necessary connectivity libraries already integrated into it. Providing the user with a quick and easy to use solution of

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What are the Benefits of Splunk’s Fraud Analytics Add-On?

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog What are the Benefits of Splunk’s Fraud Analytics Add-On? Author: Oliver Knapp Release Date:10/10/2024 In the modern business world, there are many ways and platforms to sell products, be that through word of mouth, in person or, especially in recent years, online. However, this recent broadening of selling surface area and business operation

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Threat Detection and Investigation with Splunk & Varonis

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog Threat Detection and Investigation with Splunk & Varonis Author: Charlotte Fletcher Release Date: 21/05/2021 Ultimately, we want to reduce the mean time to detection and, more importantly, mean time to response. We need human resources for other tasks and that’s why we rely on technologies like Splunk and Varonis to integrate and provide

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What is Confluent TableFlow?

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog What is Confluent TableFlow? Author: Sam Ward Release Date: 13/09/2024 Understanding the Fundamentals: Apache Iceberg and Data Structures To first understand what TableFlow does, and how Confluent makes use of it, we first need to dive into what Apache Iceberg is, what Data Lakehouses are, and how we can take advantage of them.

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Why Should Businesses Utilise Real-Time Data Streaming

Why Should Businesses Utilise Real-Time Data Streams?

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog Why Should Businesses Utilise Real-Time Data Streams? Author: Jamie Turbill Release Date: 25/07/2024 Increasingly and in the last decade, data has become one of the most important assets in business. As services become ever more digital, we expect things to be available on-demand in an instant. Organisations are reliant on data-driven systems to

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Top 10 Ways to Utilise Splunk Observability

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog Top 10 Ways to Utilise Splunk Observability Author: Riley Martin Release Date: 07/05/2024 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

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How to Prevent a Ransomware Attack with Varonis

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog How to Prevent a Ransomware Attack with Varonis Author: Beth Laws Release Date: 01/05/2024 Ransomware is a conversation at board level today and it’s a topic we need to tackle. Security is like insurance, we begrudge paying it and often question whether we need it in the first place, but my goodness aren’t

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Drones on Operations: Splunking the Data

Blog / By Carl Parker

Somerford Blog Drones on Operations: Splunking the Data Summary Drones are a common component of modern warfare. When operating they produce a tonne of machine data which can be ingested into Splunk and used to improve the operational capability of the platform as well as enhancing the commander’s decision-making process. This can be used to

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