Somerford Blog What is the Somerford Technical Value Assessment (TVA)? Author: Becca Lambert Release Date: 21/11/2024 The Technical Value Assessment (TVA) is a new complimentary offering from Somerford Associates. Aimed at providing the customer with a full technical assessment of their current Splunk usage and provide a roadmap of how to maximise the value that […]
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Somerford Blog What is HashiCorp Vault Acceleration Program (VAP)? Author: Carl Parker Release Date: 24/11/2023 An accelerated Vault deployment service by Somerford, our Vault Acceleration Program (VAP) is designed for the rapid installation and enablement of HashiCorp’s Vault solution to provide quick ROI and acceleration of deployment. Our HashiCorp-certified consultants will work closely with your
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Somerford Blog How Does Varonis MDDR Help to Mitigate Complex Threats Author: Beth Laws Release Date: 23/12/2024 The new Varonis Managed Data Detection and Response (MDDR) offering provides 24/7, 365 days a year service. MDDR combines the data security platform’s award winning threat detection technology alongside the Varonis team of cyber experts to investigate and
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Somerford Blog Threat Detection and Investigation with Splunk & Varonis Author: Charlotte Fletcher Release Date: 21/05/2021 Ultimately, we want to reduce the mean time to detection and, more importantly, mean time to response. We need human resources for other tasks and that’s why we rely on technologies like Splunk and Varonis to integrate and provide
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‘I know SSO, but what is this so-called Desktop SSO? How does it make my life easier?’ 21/07/19 – Author: Grace Maher – Certified Splunk Consultant We are all used to a traditional SSO portal, a centralised location for us to all sign into and access our applications without the need to know what your
Somerford Blog What is Splunk APM? Author: Daniel Gray Release Date: 10/12/2025 Introducing Application Performance Monitoring As modern systems scale across containers, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud environments, traditional monitoring often falls short. Sampling traces or siloing data means you lose the full picture of what’s happening inside your applications, this leads to blind spots in your
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Somerford Blog Grafana Cloud: Observability and Visualisation Made Easy (4 Pillars of Observability Part #1) Author: Oscar Moores Release Date: 20/01/2026 What is Grafana? When I first discovered Grafana Cloud I looked at what was in front of me and thought to myself: “That’s a pretty cool way of visualising data”. I hooked up an
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Somerford Blog How to Monitor Cloud Compliance with Lacework FortiCNAPP Author: Jake Hammacott Release Date: 15/08/2024 Compliance and governance of IT infrastructure is incredibly important in any enterprise. Failing to meet standards set by governments, industry-recognised compliance frameworks and internal policies can lead to an increased risk of resources being leveraged and exploited by malicious
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Somerford Blog What are the Benefits of Splunk’s Fraud Analytics Add-On? Author: Oliver Knapp Release Date:10/10/2024 In the modern business world, there are many ways and platforms to sell products, be that through word of mouth, in person or, especially in recent years, online. However, this recent broadening of selling surface area and business operation
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Somerford Blog How Generative AI PushesData Streaming to the Next Level Author: Sam Ward Release Date: 02/03/2026 Understanding AI: Discriminative AI – The Librarian Artificial Intelligence. Most of us use it in our daily lives, potentially without even realising it. That Alexa in your home – the one you use to set reminders, check the
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