We’re thrilled to share that Splunk has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms, Q4 2022. We are committed to developing world-class solutions for the SOC, so it's a true honor to be named a Leader by Forrester. We are proud to help organizations accelerate threat detection and investigations, achieve cybersecurity resilience, and navigate their most critical security challenges.

Cyber threats continue to evolve, with cyberattacks happening in the world every 39 seconds. That’s why cybersecurity has become one of the topmost concerns in many organizations. Despite many intelligent defense mechanisms organizations leverage, emerging cyber threats continue to disrupt businesses in many ways. Cyber Threat Intelligence is the best way for organizations to mitigate the risks of new cyber threats in the future. In this article, I’ll explain…

With cyberattacks growing in scale and complexity, it has never been more difficult to figure out where to invest your time and defensive resources. This remains the core challenge of optimizing an effective security organization. A good prioritization approach should be data-driven, and informed by real attacker activity.

Productivity and collaboration tools are key components for any business today – we use mail, docs, spreadsheets, shared whiteboards and many other cool tools daily. In this post, we will talk about how Splunk helps teams work and collaborate securely while using Google Chrome and Google Workspace.

Splunk has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SIEM 2022 Vendor Assessment (doc #US49029922, November 2022). We believe this recognition is a testament to our commitment to delivering a best-in-class, data-centric security analytics solution that helps our customers accelerate threat detection and investigations, and achieve cybersecurity resilience.

We know the time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s is typically slow so we wanted to bring some early holiday cheer to you through the most downloaded (and free) app on Splunkbase, Splunk Security Essentials (SSE). Starting Dec. 7, Splunk Security Essentials 3.7.0 is Generally Available. We have some amazing updates in the SSE 3.7.0 release, so let’s dive right into the updates.

The SMLS team enables Splunk customers to find obscure and buried threats in large amounts of data through expert analytics. This work is part of a set of machine learning detections built by a specialized team of security-focused data scientists working in concert with Splunk’s threat research teams to help Splunk customers sift through vast amounts of data to identify and alert users of suspicious content.