It’s a mystery why the film community felt an iconic movie like “Grease” needed a reprise. But alas, “Grease 2” hit the big screen and ushered in new teen angst themes around bowling and the talent show.

The Splunk Security Research Team has been working on Kubernetes security analytic stories mainly focused on AWS and GCP cloud platforms. The turn has come now for some Azure Kubernetes security monitoring analytic stories. As outlined in my "Approaching Kubernetes Security — Detecting Kubernetes Scan with Splunk" blog post, when looking at Kubernetes security, there are certain items within a cluster that must be monitored.

If I asked you to describe Splunk, you’d likely reply with something about it being really good (the best!) at gathering and searching logs. You’re right! But while that’s true, you may not know Splunk is also tops at gathering and analyzing metrics. Putting the two together is very powerful; logs (events, more generically) and metrics go together like cookies and milk!

More people than ever are working remotely, and about one-third say the coronavirus pandemic was their first chance to do so. As companies return to a new normal, they are considering how to manage workers who are not in the office, and mobile workers add a unique challenge. The term “remote worker” includes work-from-home employees and mobile workers. Most employees who work remotely do both.

You may be surprised to learn that a particular malware is responsible for data theft in over 20% of financial institutions and other verticals in 2019. Watering hole attacks involve a web server that hosts files or applications where the website or files on the site become weaponized with malware. While recent news cycles have shined a spotlight on ransomware and crimeware, malware is not a new concept.

Two years ago we introduced Splunk Insights for AWS Cloud Monitoring and Splunk Insights for Infrastructure on the AWS Marketplace as a Pay-As-You-Go Amazon Machine Image, where you could initiate an instance and pay hourly to use these products after a 15-day trial. Assessing our portfolio, we are discontinuing these offerings to focus on differentiating capabilities, namely the ability to search and apply machine learning to your data in addition to visualizing insights.

We’re excited to announce that Splunk has been named the leader for both market revenue and market share in IDC’s Worldwide IT Operations Management Software Market Shares, 2019 report, having captured 13% of the overall ITOM market and achieving 32.3% year-over-year growth*. We believe this recognition speaks to the continued success of our customers, and we are so thankful for the opportunity to be a part of that success.

Since we launched Splunk Remote Work Insights (RWI) in late March, we have been focused on helping our customers and the community understand how their workforce is staying connected, productive and engaged as we all continue to work across largely distributed teams.

With the rising needs associated with COVID-19, the challenges of the commercial drug supply chain is more evident than ever. This article features an innovative and progressive technology that uses blockchain to solve the ongoing problem with the drug distribution chain.

Most IT and business leaders know that despite the economic and human disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation will ultimately speed up, not slow down. The immediate challenges of the pandemic have led companies to find innovative ways to get things done, relying on data-driven decisions and technologies.