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Best Practices for SOC Tooling Acquisition

Your Security Operations Center (SOC) faces complex challenges for keeping corporate data safe and in the right hands everyday. The right tooling is critical for success. Deciding when—and how—to make investments in SOC tooling is complex and challenging across organizations. There’s a ton of vendor spin out there and it’s important to understand what’s real and what isn’t.

ChatGPT praise and trepidation - cyber defense in the age of AI

ChatGPT has taken the world by storm, so much so that we are all left guessing how far this will go. And it’s not a trivial question, as it relates to the future of humanity itself. On one extreme, technology is increasing rapidly enough to synthesize some of the most fundamental parts of our existence—communicating naturally with one another. That can be a scary thought.

Data Denormalization: Pros, Cons & Techniques for Denormalizing Data

The amount of data organizations handle has created the need for faster data access and processing. Data Denormalization is a widely used technique to improve database query performance. This article discusses data normalization, its importance, how it differs from data normalization and denormalization techniques. Importantly, I’ll also look at the pros and cons of this approach.

Reference Architecture Series: Scaling Syslog

Join Ed Bailey and Ahmed Kira as they go into more detail about the Cribl Stream Reference Architecture, with a focus on scaling syslog. In this live stream discussion, Ed and Ahmed will explain guidelines for how to handle high volume UDP and TCP syslog traffic. They will also share different use cases and talk about the pros and cons for using different approaches to solve this common and often painful challenge.

Data lake vs. data mesh: Which one is right for you?

What’s the right way to manage growing volumes of enterprise data, while providing the consistency, data quality and governance required for analytics at scale? Is centralizing data management in a data lake the right approach? Or is a distributed data mesh architecture right for your organization? When it comes down to it, most organizations seeking these solutions are looking for a way to analyze data without having to move or transform it via complex extract, transform and load (ETL) pipelines.

The future of observability: Trends and predictions business leaders should plan for in 2023 and beyond

If the past year has taught us anything, it’s that the more things change, the more things stay the same. The whiplash and pivot from the go-go economy post-pandemic to a belt-tightening macroeconomic environment induced by higher inflation and interest rates has been seen before, but rarely this quickly. Technology leaders have always had to do more with less, but this slowdown may be unpredictable, longer, and more pronounced than expected.

The Splunk Immersive Experience powered by AWS is here!

The Splunk Immersive Experience (SIE) powered by AWS is now open! The SIE journey is thoughtfully crafted to showcase industry-specific solutions for known use cases and highlight tangible business value and outcomes that Splunk and AWS can deliver. For more information and to find out how you can get an SIE tour, check out the video.