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What's new in Sysdig - July 2021

Welcome to another monthly update on what’s new from Sysdig! Happy 4th of July to our American audience, and bonne Bastille to our French friends. It’s been heating up in the northern hemisphere, so we hope you’ve all been managing to stay cool and safe. Our team continues to work hard to bring great new features to all of our customers, automatically and for free! The big news this month is our intent to acquire Apolicy, which has everyone full of excitement.

Splunk SOAR Feature Video: Custom Functions

Splunk SOAR’s custom functions allow shareable custom code across playbooks and the introduction of complex data objects into the playbook execution path. These aren’t just out-of the-box playbooks, but out-of-the-box custom blocks that save you time and effort. This allows for centralized code management and version control of custom functions providing the building blocks for scaling your automation, even to those without coding capabilities.

Splunk SOAR Feature Video: Contextual Action Launch

Splunk SOAR apps have a parameter for action inputs and outputs called "contains". These are used to enable contextual actions in the Splunk SOAR user interface. A common example is the contains type "ip". This is a powerful feature that the platform provides, as it allows the user to chain the output of one action as input to another.

Onboarding Data in Splunk Security Analytics for AWS

Splunk Security Analytics for AWS’ new data onboarding wizard quickly takes you from subscribing to the service to visualizing your AWS environment. We’ll walk through the wizard in this video, and you’ll see how the new process can save you hours, days or even weeks when compared to traditional data onboarding processes.

Why implementing Zero Trust is more important than ever before

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we explore why organizations should implement Zero Trust in 2021. In 2010, John Kindervag introduced the concept of “Zero Trust” which has become a touchstone for cyber resilience and persistent security. Zero Trust is not a security product, architecture, or technology.

Get Started with Splunk for Security: Splunk Security Essentials

Continuing to ride the waves of Summer of Security and the launch of Splunk Security Cloud, Splunk Security Essentials is now part of the Splunk security portfolio and fully supported with an active Splunk Cloud or Splunk Enterprise license. No matter how you choose to deploy Splunk, you can apply prescriptive guidance and deploy pre-built detections from Splunk Security Essentials to Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud Platform, Splunk SIEM and Splunk SOAR solutions.