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How to Dynamically Auto-Steer your Traffic to Multi-CDN or Multiple Data-Centers

Whether it’s Cyber Monday deals or streaming the Super Bowl to millions of users, website’s traffic management & SRE teams often struggle to deliver a reliable user experience. Multi-CDN strategy is critical & integral to this process and is often determined by the following factors.

How to Mitigate DDoS Attacks with Log Analytics

Is your organization prepared to mitigate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against mission-critical cloud-based applications? A DDoS attack is a cyber attack that uses bots to flood the targeted server or application with junk traffic, exhausting its resources and disrupting service for real human users. DDoS attacks are on the rise, with over 4.83 million attacks reported in the first half of 2020 - an increase of more than 250% compared to the same period in 2019.

Sumo Logic Achieves FedRAMP-Moderate Authorization

We are pleased to share with you that the Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform™ was granted authority to operate at a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate impact level. With this authorization, many more organizations can now use Sumo Logic to get real-time insights into complex on-premises and cloud environments, and further strengthen their security and compliance, while optimizing their operational performance.

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry - Now with Splunk Observability Support!

Back in October, we announced the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector Distribution, which offered the industry’s first production-ready support for OpenTelemetry. This distribution is the recommended way that customers of Splunk’s award-winning observability products capture metrics and traces.

Visual Link Analysis with Splunk: Part 2 - The Visual Part

In part one of the "Visual Analysis with Splunk" blog series, "Visual Link Analysis with Splunk: Part 1 - Data Reduction," we covered how to take a large data set and convert it to only linked data in Splunk Enterprise. Now let’s look at how we can start visualizing the data we found that contains links. Why, you may ask, when we just developed a nice table of data that shows us links? Tables of data don’t always work well if you have more than one page of data.

Elastic is going closed-source. Where does that leave MSSPs?

Elastic moved from an open source license for Elasticsearch and Kibana to a “source available” (aka closed source) license. It was supposed to shut down SaaS companies, but what does it mean for Managed Security Service Providers? Managed Security Service Providers, or MSSPs, are a growing segment in the security business. These firms specialize in deploying security infrastructure, aggregating monitoring and event data, and proactively hunting threats.

Detecting Credit Card Fraud Using SMLE

Organizations lose billions of dollars to fraud each year. For instance, the financial services sector projects losses to reach $40 billion per year in the next 5-7 years unless financial institutions, merchants, and consumers become more diligent about fraud detection and prevention. Splunk delivers integrated enterprise fraud management software that quickly defines behavior patterns and protects enterprise information from malicious actors.