Somerford Blog How does Netskope work with Okta? When it comes to securing web traffic within a business there are three baseline requirements: The applicable traffic has to be inspected. The users generating the traffic have to be identified. Policies need to be created for said traffic and these have to be applied to applicable […]
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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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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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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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