By: Zubair Rauf | Senior Splunk Consultant A few days ago, I came across an interesting challenge that a customer put in front of me. They had been facing this for some time now. The customer works with an app that logs all of its events 7 hours ahead of Eastern time, irrespective of daylight savings […]
By: Joe Wohar | Senior Splunk Consultant Splunk Phantom is an amazing software used to automate cybersecurity processes, however, many companies do not know that they could also be using Phantom for case management. Arguably the most powerful, yet unknown to many, case management feature of Phantom is the ability to create and use […]
By: Forrest Lybarger | Splunk Consultant The bin command is a relatively uncommon, but incredibly useful tool in Splunk. How it works is a user gives it a field (the field must be numeric) then Splunk groups the events by the specified field. The next important thing to know about bin is that the […]
By: Aaron Dobrzeniecki | Splunk Consultant If you have problems or questions regarding masking important data when it gets ingested into Splunk, this is the blog for you. Common use cases include masking credit card numbers, SSN, passwords, account IDs, or anything that should not be visible to the public. When masking data before it […]
By: Brandon Mesa | Splunk Consultant Managing Splunk .conf files is a day to day routine for most, if not all, Splunk admins. As your Splunk environment matures, you’ll find yourself making constant .conf changes to improve operational efficiency. For example, as new data sources are onboarded, new indexes and parsing settings are implemented to […]
By: Eric Howell | Splunk Consultant Introduction The release of Splunk 8.0 marked a pivotal change in the functional workings of Splunk; the tool transitioned from leveraging Python 2 to Python 3. This shift is due to the fact that support was dropped for Python 2 by the governing vendor on January 1st, 2020. Due […]
By: Don Arnold | Splunk Consultant Though a number of cloud solutions have popped up over the past 10 years, Amazon Web Services, better known as simply AWS, seems to be taking the lead in cloud infrastructure. And, companies that are using AWS have either migrated their entire infrastructure or are using on-premises systems […]
By: Karl Cepull | Senior Director, Operational Intelligence Splunk and AWS: two of the most adopted tools of our time. Splunk allows fantastic insight into your company’s data at an incredible pace. AWS allows an affordable alternative to on-premise or even other cloud environments. Together both of these tools can come together and allow […]
By: Troy Allen | Vice President of Emerging Technologies Businesses thrive on information, but finding good data can be difficult to collect sort, and utilize due to the vast variety of sources and forms by which information is created and disseminated. As organizations are inundated with documents, forms, data streams, and more it’s becoming […]
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