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What is the HashiCorp Terraform Acceleration Program (TAP)

Vault Enterprise: Secrets Management at Scale

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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What is the HashiCorp Terraform Acceleration Program (TAP)

Protecting HashiCorp Vault against Insider Threats

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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Extending Vault – Zero Trust with HashiCorp Boundary

Somerford Blog Extending Vault: Zero Trust with HashiCorp Boundary Author: John ‘JJ’ Jarvis 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: human authentication and

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Our HashiConf Recap 2023

Our HashiConf 2023 Recap

Somerford Blog Our HashiConf 2023 Recap Author: John ‘JJ’ Jarvis Release Date: 07/12/2023 HashiConf ‘23 is a wrap! And what a time it is to be working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)! HashiCorp announced the biggest changes to its Terraform engine since the product’s launch, and didn’t stop there; I’ll go through a few of

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What is HashiCorp Consul?

Somerford Blog What is HashiCorp Consul? Author: John ‘JJ’ Jarvis Release Date: 24/01/2024 Consul is a service networking solution. But what do we mean by that? Well, when we’re talking about what HashiCorp calls the Cloud Operating Model, we have to change our approach, on many fronts: if there is still a ticketing system of

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Splunk .conf25 Updates — Unifying Enterprise Resilience in the AI Era

Somerford Blog Splunk .conf25 Updates — Unifying Enterprise Resilience in the AI Era Author: Rosie Whitfield Release Date: 17/09/2025 It has been over a year since Cisco’s strategic acquisition of Splunk, a move that was immediately recognised for its financial acumen. However, at Somerford Associates, our focus has always been on the deeper technical and

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What is Varonis’ Database Activity Monitoring (DAM)?

Somerford Blog What is Varonis’ Database Activity Monitoring? Author: Beth Laws Release Date: 09/09/2025 Once again, Varonis has expanded its security capabilities as it now introduces next-generation Database Activity Monitoring (DAM). This comes after Varonis acquired Cyral earlier this year. The Cyral cloud-native DAM solution fits rather perfectly with Varonis security offerings, allowing Varonis customers

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Why Choose Splunk Observability Cloud?

Somerford Blog Why Choose Splunk Observability Cloud? Author: Owais Ghaffar Release Date: 28/08/2025 Understanding Observability: More Than Just Monitoring Modern IT environments are sprawling, dynamic, and increasingly complex. From containerised microservices to hybrid cloud infrastructure, the sheer scale and fluidity of today’s systems present a unique challenge: ensuring performance, availability, and reliability without getting buried

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