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Preparing users for phishing attacks with Splunk
Why waste time and energy trying to crack passwords or hack through some obscure and complex vulnerability when there is a much easier way to breach a computer network? Want a break in? Just ask for an...
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Making Sense: Manufacturing, Splunk and Industrial Data
Recently, in the online publication Manufacturers Monthly, Denise Carson published a piece called “Harnessing Operational Intelligence”, and really made the case for using big-data and platforms like...
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SplunkTalk – #70 – New, Improved & Back for the Attack!
This episode of SplunkTalk finds Hal and Wilde chatting it up about something special that was announced at Splunk’s 2014 User Conference, that being an itty-bitty little point release known as Splunk...
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Splunk Challenge 2014 – Bringing data to the next level.
It is just another day at Nanyang Polytechnic. But at one of the lab in this award winning school of IT, gathers a group of about 30 students who are competing in a splunk challenge. Yes, it is the...
View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #2
Hey there Splunk community! Welcome to the 2nd installment of Smart AnSwerS! We’re in the last month of the year and entering prime holiday season, but big data waits for no one ;D — Check out this...
View ArticleSplunk>4Good Profile: Dana Le
It’s not everyday that Splunkers head to Uganda by themselves. Much less to serve on the front lines of the AIDS epidemic halfway around the world. But Dana Le is clearly no average Splunker. In...
View ArticleSocial Media Roundup
Because Splunk can index any kind of data, many of our customers have found it useful for indexing and analyzing social media events like Tweets, Facebook posts, and blog posts. EXAMPLES Hurricane...
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Popular Cisco Networks App Recognized with Splunk “Revolution Award”
The first inkling I had of the usefulness of the Cisco Networks App for Splunk Enterprise (formerly Cisco IOS) came from a Cisco field team who helped their customer get the app working and immediately...
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Accelerate troubleshooting in Application-Centric Infrastructures with Cisco...
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) delivers a holistic architecture that closely links the provisioning of data center networks with the applications running over those networks. The Cisco...
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Make it flash! Make it flash!
Splunk ships with some really neat visualisation options. From bar charts to gauges. Though sometimes they just don’t fit your requirements. Wether that be something as simple as an custom icon or a...
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That happened: episode 42 (#splunk, the universe, and everything)
This week in “That happened: notes from #splunk”, a blog about the goings-on in the Splunk IRC channel: There are really only 300 people on the internet …and #splunk is 200 of them: <RichardRa>...
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The best Christmas presents are surprises. Splunk wins “Best Business...
I hope everyone is getting ready for Christmas and nobody got injured in the madness that was black Friday. I’ve just got back from San Francisco where the festive season was in full effect. My...
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EHLO, Is it ME You’re Looking For? New Splunk App Simplifies Microsoft...
The Splunk App for Microsoft Exchange is consistently one of the most popular apps on Splunk Apps. We just released a new version of the app with some exciting new features. Version 3.1 is available...
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Christmas 2020. Will big data and IOT change things for Father Christmas? Part I
After last year’s case study on Santa Claus International, I recently had the opportunity to spend some more time with Father Christmas discussing his long term plans and business strategy for the next...
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SSSL (Splunk Secure Sockets Layer)
The primary reason why SSL is used is to keep sensitive information sent across the internet encrypted so that only the intended recipient can understand it. This is important because the information...
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Christmas 2020. Will big data and IOT change things for Father Christmas?...
In part 1 we discussed how Father Christmas is planning to use sensor data for the Internet of Toys. In part 2 we’re going to discuss how he is going to use very large data sets to build out...
View ArticleSplunk and Microsoft Azure – Intro and Resource Roundup
We are often asked by customers about how Splunk can integrate with, or run in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. There’s actually a fair bit of information about this broad topic on splunk.com and...
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Smart AnSwerS #3
Hello Splunketeers and welcome to the 3rd installment of Smart AnSwerS! We’ve been in quite a drought here in California and we’ve all been waiting and hoping for some rain to come on by…aaaand we got...
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Hey there folks and welcome to the 4th installment of Smart AnSwerS! Did any of you gain a pound or five over the holidays? I certainly did, but that’s ok! Good times and good eats with family and...
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SMail: Splunking Your Inbox
Google sent me a nice message to start the year – “Your inbox is reaching its limit”. Looking at my GMail inbox I have well over 70k emails, taking up just under 15GB of space. I’m interested in how...
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