‘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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Somerford Blog A Business & Competitive Edge: Cisco + Splunk + AppDynamics Author: Bhuvnesh Yadav Release Date: 18/01/2025 So before we dive into how Splunk and AppDynamics are coming together under Cisco’s umbrella, let me quickly walk you through what these platforms actually do. AppDynamics, which Cisco acquired back in January 2017, is an industry-leading
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Somerford Blog How to Filter Events From Two Sources with One Common Field Author: Grace Dolby Release Date: 26/02/2024 Introduction Often the power of Splunk can really be shown by correlating data that previously would have been very disparate or difficult to compare together. By leveraging Splunk’s flexible and verbose search language, you can ask
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Somerford Blog Why Organisations Need Privileged Access Management (PAM) Systems Author: Ewan Brown Release Date: 03/02/2025 In the modern digital landscape, securing an organisation’s sensitive data and infrastructure is critical. Cyber threats are constantly evolving, and one of the primary targets for attackers is privileged accounts. These accounts hold elevated permissions, allowing users to access
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Somerford Blog Simplify Infrastructure Provisioning with Somerford’s ATIP App Author: Jordan Phillpotts Release Date: 05/01/2024 It’s the age-old problem, how do I host my applications or web services? Okay maybe not age old but certainly it’s something any burgeoning tech company would be thinking about, do you go for on-premises, off-site, or cloud? And how
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