Every security team should utilize security frameworks in their strategy and tactics to help reduce risk from common cybersecurity threats. Security frameworks guide organizations on how they should develop, build, and maintain their IT security policies and procedures while sharing best practices for meeting compliance requirements. Healthcare operations in particular are often presented with increasing regulatory scrutiny and obligations that must be met in order to be competitive.

Marie Kondo, a Japanese organizational consultant, helps people declutter their homes in order to live happier, better lives. She once said: Similarly, in security, operational teams are constantly bogged down by a “visible mess” that inhibits their ability to effectively secure their organization.

The way we ‘data’ is about to change, and Splunk’s Connect for Ethereum (aka EthLogger) is helping organizations to adapt. Splunk Connect for Ethereum enables organizations of all sizes to investigate, monitor, analyze and act upon their rapidly growing blockchain data sets across multiple chains.

Recently we announced in our blog post, "The OpenTelemetry Tracing Specification Reaches 1.0.0!," that OpenTelemetry tracing specifications reached v1.0.0 — offering long-term stability guarantees for the tracing portion of the OpenTelemetry clients. Today we’re excited to share that the first of the language-specific APIs and SDKs have reached v1.0.0 starting with OpenTelemetry Java and OpenTelemetry .NET.

I thought my last blog, Visual Link Analysis with Splunk: Part 3 - Tying Up Loose Ends, about fraud detection using link analysis would be the end of this topic for now. Surprise, this is part 4 of visual link analysis. Previously (for those who need a refresher) I wanted to use Splunk Cloud to show me all the links in my data in my really big data set. I wanted to see all the fraud rings that I didn’t know about. I was happy with my success in using link analysis for fraud detection.

Welcome to part 3 of the blog series where we go through how to forward container logs from Amazon ECS and Fargate to Splunk. In part 1, Splunking AWS ECS Part 1: Setting Up AWS And Splunk, we focused on understanding what ECS and Fargate are, along with how to get AWS and Splunk ready for log routing to Splunk’s Data-to-Everything Platform.

One of the biggest challenges that DevOps teams face is how to connect their efforts with the priorities of business leaders. In conversations we’ve had, developers and SREs discussed how they need to show business and engineering leaders that they are investing their time solving the right problems, and how solving these problems lead to overall better business outcomes.