The Well-Architected Tool is a new AWS service that compares the state of your workloads with AWS architectural best practices. Splunking your workload state and improvement recommendations will give you better insights into your applications as well as best practices to follow along your cloud journey. The Well-Architected integration in Grand Central will give you workload insights broken down by the following 5 pillars.
As we approach the end of an unpredictable year, it’s a good time to reflect on the ways data has made a positive impact. Data is helping stop human trafficking with Global Emancipation Network, connected relief resources during crises with NetHope, and saved lives during wildfires with Zonehaven. And with our powerful partner ecosystem, and the arrival of the Data Age, there is so much more we can accomplish together.
The overall theme of Splunk’s four-part 2021 Predictions report is the rapid acceleration of digital transformation, driven by the specific event of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the momentum of data technologies that have brought us into a true Data Age. Nowhere is that acceleration going to be more transformative than around the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
TL;DR: This blog contains some immediate guidance on using Splunk Core and Splunk Enterprise Security to protect (and detect activity on) your network from the Sunburst Backdoor malware delivered via SolarWinds Orion software. Splunk’s threat research team will release more guidance in the coming week. Also please note that you may see some malicious network activity but it may not mean your network is compromised. As always review carefully.
2020 was a crazy year with tremendous disruption, hardship, and loss. While the pandemic brings social and economic chaos, it is also changing the very nature of how we live and work. This year we have seen a new wave of digital transformation amongst various business sectors and dramatic shifts in consumer behavior.
Ever wanted to see and experience your data in 3D? Splunk VR unlocks the third dimension for data visualizations, so you can naturally interact with visualizations in virtual reality and find insights faster than ever before. Use Splunk VR to give your workflow an infinite canvas, free your data exploration from limited monitor screens, and display as much information as you want around you.
The global pandemic has fueled a rapid digital transformation — and led to permanent shifts in cybersecurity. In a recent joint webinar with Bryan McAninch, senior solutions engineer at Splunk, and guest speaker Chris Kissel from IDC, "Sp(e)lunking Security with MITRE ATT&CK® featuring IDC Research," they shared seven overarching trends in cybersecurity for 2021. One notable, but foundational, trend mentioned was the need to understand risk.
