Somerford Blog 5 Steps for Strengthening Cyber Resilience Authors: Jake Hammacott & Oliver Knapp Release Date: 26/04/2024 In the modern day, threats to businesses originate almost entirely in the digital world, be that with the aim of stealing identities, or the more basic desire of financial gain. As such, to businesses in this day and […]
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Somerford Blog The Difference Between Splunk ES & Splunk Security Essentials Author: Ben Marrable Release Date: 22/06/2021 A common question from those new to Splunk Security is “What is the difference between Splunk Enterprise Security(ES) and Splunk Security Essentials (SSE)”, I think the answer lies primarily in outlining what Security Essentials is and what it
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Somerford Blog Ransomware Prevention with Okta Author: Grace Dolby Release Date: 17/10/2022 Linkedin Twitter Youtube Ransomware, a type of malicious software that seeks to block access to your own files and data by holding them to ransom unless a fee is paid. ‘Ransomware is now responsible for 10% of breaches, and have doubled in number
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Somerford Blog How Does Netskope’s SD WAN Transformation Revolutionise Your Enterprise Connectivity? Author: Jake Hammacott Release Date: 02/04/2025 The Disadvantages Associated with Remote Working Organisations that lack robust and comprehensive enterprise connectivity are confronted with a multitude of obstacles that can severely impede their operations and growth. Productivity is often impacted as employees struggle with
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Somerford Blog How to Format JSON Data Ready for Splunk Author: Laurence Everitt Release Date: 28/10/2024 Splunk is fantastic at receiving structured data in any format and then making sense of it for output to management and technicians alike, so most Splunk ingesting blogs are in the format, “How do I configure Splunk to work
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Somerford Blog Optimising and Scaling your Confluent Cluster Author: Oscar Moores Release Date: 04/08/2025 Confluent is not just software – Founded by the minds behind Apache Kafka, it is an array of many different interlinked physical and logical components: brokers, topics, partitions, ksqldb servers, Kafka streams applications, producers and consumers (just to name a few)
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Somerford Blog A Brief Introduction to Netskope’s Borderless SD-WAN Solution Release Date: 28/11/2022 Linkedin Twitter Youtube This blog post is a very high level view of SD-WAN in relation to Netskope’s offered solution and has been written to provide anyone, at any level, an understanding of the technology’s principles. What is SD-WAN? Imagine in the
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Somerford Blog What’s New for Splunk Enterprise Security v8? Author: Ben Marrable Release Date: 11/12/2024 Splunk introduced many changes when releasing Enterprise Security 8.0, see the links at the bottom for more. One of the most significant is the language used within the technology. The idea was to standardise the terminology across the CyberSecurity Industry
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Somerford Blog What is Lacework FortiCNAPP? Author: Oliver Knapp Release Date: 27/10/2023 In essence, Lacework FortiCNAPP is a complete cloud security tool which allows for an incredibly high level of visibility and, as such, control and security across all of your cloud environments. This is achieved through multiple methods which all come together in order
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Somerford Blog Delinea & Splunk: A Cybersecurity Power Duo Author: Josh Gonasella-Brown Release Date: 31/07/2025 Cybersecurity is no easy task. Between external threats, insider risks, and ever-evolving compliance regulations, IT teams must constantly stay ahead of the game. That’s where Delinea and Splunk come in. Individually, they offer powerful security solutions. Together, they create a
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