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Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) empowers businesses to ask questions, find answers, take actions, and achieve results using their data. Companies rely on Splunk’s advanced solutions, which incorporate machine learning, to oversee, analyze, and respond to various types of data, including business, IT, security, and Internet of Things information. Splunk is recognized as the first Data-to-Everything Platform, allowing organizations to focus on deriving valuable insights from their data without worrying about its origins. With this platform, IT, security, IoT, and business leaders can gain real-time visibility into their operations, transform data into meaningful outcomes, and adopt technologies that prepare them for a future driven by data. With a workforce of over 5,000 spread across 27 locations globally, our mission is to deliver impactful data solutions for our clients.

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The Best Artificial Intelligence Conferences & Events of 2025

3 weeks ago | splunk.com | Samantha Dunn

Artificial intelligence is continuing to shape the future of industries, from healthcare and finance to manufacturing and education. In 2025, experts, innovators, and thought leaders will gather at a host of conferences and events across the globe to share the latest trends, breakthroughs, and best practices in the field.
Ally or Adversary: The Paradox of AI in Cyber Defense

2 months ago | splunk.com | Patrick Coughlin

Security leaders and professionals alike have often debated the power of AI to transform cyber security — for both good and evil. On the defenders’ side, AI has the potential to augment security teams by identifying anomalous behavior in an expanding universe of digital noise, summarize and translate incident information into business impact, and recommend or automatically execute remediation playbooks.
Threat Detection, Explained

Jan 8, 2025 | splunk.com | Muhammad Raza

Threat detection is the term for detecting threats, typically within an organizational setting. Let's take a closer look into the threat detection process and understand how you can prevent cyberattacks through a proactive threat detection strategy. What is threat detection? Threat detection identifies threats actively trying to attack the endpoints, networks, devices, and systems within an organization.
APAC in 2025: A Harder Look at AI, Data and Cybersecurity Standards

Jan 8, 2025 | splunk.com | Simon Davies

This year has been transformative for technology, reshaping the business landscape with groundbreaking advancements and unprecedented challenges. Generative AI continues to unlock new possibilities, while cybersecurity threats have escalated to new heights. Across APAC — a fast-emerging global innovation hub — businesses have grappled with the twin forces of regulatory evolution and technological breakthroughs. As we enter 2025, the pace of change shows no signs of slowing.
The Modern SIEM has come a long way from your Grandmother’s SIEM

Jan 7, 2025 | splunk.com | Michelle Abraham

As security information and event management (SIEM) approaches the 20-year mark (depending on the date you use for its formation), we are looking back at how far SIEM has come since its inception. The modern SIEM is certainly not your grandmother’s SIEM. While SIEM started as a platform to capture event logs from the IT environment, the parsing and standardization of the telemetry allowed analysis of all the logs in the same way, no matter the source.
Splunk’s Ingest Processor - Why It Is A Game Changer For Managing Log Data In The World Of Observability

Dec 17, 2024 | splunk.com | Ian Thompson

Logs and other supporting data, like metrics and traces, have become one of the most important elements of observability in recent times. The ability to harness the power of this data has enabled teams to significantly speed up problem resolution by quickly understanding the root-cause of issues as well as enabling them to understand why a system behaves the way that it does.
Introduction to Shadow AI

Dec 9, 2024 | splunk.com | Muhammad Raza

The rise of generative AI tools has unlocked immense productivity potential but has also given birth to a new challenge: Shadow AI. As employees increasingly turn to unsanctioned AI applications for convenience, businesses face significant risks in maintaining data security and adhering to IT governance protocols. Let’s take a look. What is shadow AI? Shadow AI refers to the unauthorized use of Artificial Intelligence tools at the workplace and outside the scope of internal IT governance protocols.
Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF): What It Means & Why It’s Important

Dec 6, 2024 | splunk.com | Muhammad Raza

In today’s technology driven world, system reliability is more critical than ever. Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) serves as a key metric to evaluate the dependability of systems by measuring the average time a system operates without failure. This concept reinforces critical decisions in reliability engineering, maintenance planning, and service level agreements. Here’s everything you need to know about the MTBF metric including how you can calculate it and important metrics to consider.
What is Privilege Escalation? An Introduction

Nov 28, 2024 | splunk.com | Muhammad Raza

In the realm of cybersecurity, understanding how unauthorized access can compromise sensitive systems is critical—this is where the concept of privilege escalation comes into play. In this article, we will look at what privilege escalation is, how it exploits vulnerabilities and best practices for protecting your organization against privilege escalation. What is privilege escalation? Privilege escalation refers to the exploit designed to elevate the access privileges of a user account.
What is Network Segmentation? A Complete Guide

Nov 22, 2024 | splunk.com | Shanika WIckramasinghe

Network segmentation is a popular topic that has gained more attention in the recent past. Why is this important? It’s because network segmentation can limit the movement of potential cyber attackers within the network. So, if a security breach happens segmentation restricts unauthorized users from freely accessing critical areas of the network. This helps to reduce the risk of widespread damage.