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That's A Data Problem - Thriving in an Uncertain World | Daniel Newman & Splunk's Doug Merritt

The COVID-19 pandemic unveiled the importance of business resiliency. Moving forward, the case for prioritizing business resilience is beyond doubt. Leadership must leverage data and system resilience to meet new threats that could impact their business model and operations. Tech Analyst Daniel Newman and CEO of Splunk, Doug Merritt, discuss how to build business resilience focusing on data strategies, people-first leadership and investing to be ready for a future of uncertainty.

That's A Data Problem - How Do Security Programs Drive Business Results?

The sheer number of cybersecurity attacks against companies continues to grow, and with accelerated cloud transformation, IT teams are facing new challenges. To drive innovation and stay competitive, companies need to ensure they are using cloud securely, prioritizing a security first approach and mitigating risks to drive business results.

Why You Need Real-Time for Faster MTTR

“If you ain't first, you're last.” While that famous one-liner from Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell) in the cult hit Talladega Nights is more joke than catchphrase, it hits home for those of us in the world of DevOps and Observability. Faster is better. And in our technology-driven world of online transactions and complex environments, faster isn’t just better — it’s crucial.

Understanding the DoD's Data Strategy: Part 2

Published in late 2020, the DoD Data Strategy emphasizes the importance of unlocking and operationalizing data-value from across its enterprise to support mission operations and maintain battlefield advantage. The strategy highlights seven goals and objectives that the DoD believes will align the DoD's Data Strategy with industry best practices.

How to Use Observability to Reduce MTTR

When you’re operating a web application, the last thing you want to hear is “the site is down." Regardless of the reason, the fact that it is down is enough to cause anyone responsible for an app to break out into a sweat. As soon as you become aware of an issue, a clock starts ticking — literally, in some cases — to get the issue fixed. Minimizing this time between an issue occurring and its resolution is arguably the number one goal for any operations team.

Is Operational Resilience in Financial Services actually just a data problem?

Operational resilience is currently a hot topic in Financial Services, largely because of the impact that COVID has had on how customers interact with financial institutions. Almost overnight, the financial services industry had to cope with a large volume of transactions moving to digital channels at the same time as its employees were forced to set up home offices so that they could continue to work remotely.

SOARing to the Clouds with Splunk SOAR

For years, security practitioners have kicked and screamed about their reality. There are too many alerts to fully investigate and manually resolve every day. There is a massive talent shortage of qualified security professionals across the globe. Then couple that with analyst burnout and siloed security point-products. All of these factors are preventing security operation centers (SOCs) from operating at their full potential, with increased efficiency, performance and speed.

Onboarding Data in Splunk Security Analytics for AWS

Splunk Security Analytics for AWS's 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.

Detecting and Investigating Threats in Splunk Security Analytics for AWS

Splunk Security Analytics for AWS’s pre-built, AWS-specific detections and dashboards allow you to easily visualize your AWS environment and centralize your security analysis and investigations. We’ll walk through some of the offering’s key dashboards and detections in this video, as well as the investigation interface.