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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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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Somerford Blog What is Lacework FortiCNAPP? Author: Oliver Knapp Release Date: 27/10/2023 In essence, Lacework FortiCNAPP is a complete cloud security tool which allows for an incredibly high level of visibility and, as such, control and security across all of your cloud environments. This is achieved through multiple methods which all come together in order
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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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Somerford Blog How Does Kora Enhance Kafka & Confluent Cloud? Author: Sam Ward Release Date: 03/09/2024 Confluent Cloud: A Look Back In order to understand what Kora is, we first need to take a step back, and contextualise why Confluent needed a Cloud-Native Apache Kafka Engine in the first place. Confluent’s early Kafka offering was
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Somerford Blog 5 Tips to Help you Optimise your Splunk Searches Author: Dan Gray Release Date: 01/02/2024 Splunk is a great tool for aggregating and interrogating the data you hold but to really get the best value out of your data you should be utilising search best practices. I’ll outline here some of the best
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Somerford Blog What’s included in our Splunk Health Check? Author: Becca Lambert Release Date: 04/06/2024 A Splunk health check is a service offered free of charge to Splunk customers, you don’t need to be a Somerford customer, we are happy to help all Splunk users. The Health Check is a method of reviewing an organisation’s
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Somerford Blog How to Format JSON Data Ready for Splunk Author: Laurence Everitt Release Date: 28/10/2024 Splunk is fantastic at receiving structured data in any format and then making sense of it for output to management and technicians alike, so most Splunk ingesting blogs are in the format, “How do I configure Splunk to work
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Somerford Blog What is Splunk Edge Hub? Author: Becca Lambert Release Date: 15/01/2024 Late last year, Splunk announced their latest innovation in IoT data access and processing, 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
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Somerford Blog Apache Flink and Confluent: The Use Cases and Benefits of Integration with Confluent’s Data Streaming Platform Author: Sam Ward Release Date: 19/03/2024 What is Apache Flink? Apache Flink is a distributed stream and batch processing framework for stateful processing. It comes with a collection of complex and intelligently written APIs that power stream
