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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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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Somerford Blog How to Build a Data Pipeline with Confluent Author: Sam Ward Release Date: 29/09/2025 Defining a Data Pipeline To first get started with building data infrastructure, we first have to be familiar with the basic elements and concepts of the data pipeline. A data pipeline at its core is linking each stage of
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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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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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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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Somerford Blog What’s New in Splunk Enterprise Version 10? Author: Nik Wadge Release Date: 08/09/2025 Splunk released version 10.0.0 on 28th July to surprisingly little fanfare; therefore, it arrived slightly under our radar. However, this is definitely not a version to be ignored, and today we’re going to take a high-level look at what’s new
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Somerford Blog Setting up SplunkWeb with Third Party Certificates End-to-End on a Built Environment (Part 2) Author: Laurence Everitt Release Date: 29/05/2024 Introduction This is the second part of a 3 part explanation of how to uplift SplunkWeb from presenting a regular HTTP website to using full-blown SSL/TLS HTTPS website, end-to-end. For further information, please
Somerford Blog How Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) Work Author: Carl Parker Release Date: 19/01/2024 What are Advanced Persistent Threats? When belligerent parties target a business’ data and infrastructure in threatening attacks, the most commonly considered strategy is a fast, quickly spreading virus that searches for valuable information, then retreats as quickly as it entered. Advanced
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Somerford Blog Stronger Together: SecurityScorecard and Splunk Author: Andrew Weston – Security Consultant Release Date: 04/04/2019 Splunk Customers can now utilise SecurityScorecard’s certified app to improve 3rd party risk intelligence as well as gaining insights into their own cybersecurity risk. The SecurityScorecard application is now available on Splunkbase. Integrating SecurityScorecard security ratings and findings into Splunk
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