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 10 Ways to Utilise Splunk Observability Author: Riley Martin Release Date: 07/05/2025 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 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 Ensuring Your DSPM Tool Is As Effective As Possible Author: Ben Norcutt Release Date: 08/10/2025 What is DSPM? You may have heard the term or even its predecessor SSPM so lets define what they actually are first. SSPM – SaaS Security Posture Management, an acronym within an acronym but basically it’s looking at
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Somerford Blog What’s the Use (Cases) for Splunk? Author: Nik Wadge Release Date: 03/10/2025 When the marketing department asked me to write a blog, I was like “Sure, what on? I have a lot of knowledge, some of it relevant and interesting, some not so”, “How about the top ten Use Cases based on your
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The University of Exeter – Part 2: “Zero to SIEM” in 8 weeks, the Splunk Deployment 04/09/19 – Author: Baz Donaghue – Certified Splunk Consultant at Somerford Associates The first and subsequent steps on any organisations IT Security journey can be difficult and uncertain at the best of times. To go from little or no
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Somerford Blog Managing Assets in Splunk Enterprise Security Author: Ben Marrable In general, assets tend to be more complex as every environment is different. The first point of call will be whether the business has an up to date CMDB but a lot of the time that’s unfortunately not the case, so alternatives can be
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Somerford Blog Vault Enterprise: Secrets Management at Scale Author: John Jarvis Release Date: 11/01/21 HashiCorp’s Vault is a highly-flexible secrets management system: whether you’re a team looking for a secure, hassle-free key-value store for your application’s secrets, or an organisation in need of encryption-as-a-service to meet data-at-rest requirements, Vault is the answer; as your team
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Somerford Blog Protecting HashiCorp Vault against Insider Threats Author: John Jarvis Release Date: 20/09/21 We’ve talked before about HashiCorp Vault’s many features, and how it can help organisations manage their secrets. To securely do so, however, requires much from many teams across your organisation. This includes from your Vault deployment’s inception, through design to Day
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Somerford Blog Top 5 Reasons to Choose HashiCorp Vault Author: John Jarvis Release Date: 12/12/2024 What is HashiCorp Vault? HashiCorp’s Vault (just Vault hereafter) is so versatile that it makes it tough to write a post like this. It’s the swiss army knife of the security world, I think it’s fair to say; and therefore,
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