1 day agoSecuring Salesforce with VaronisAuthor: Beth Laws Release Date: 22/03/2023 Salesforce is one of the most used CRM solutions out there and is a really effective tool used to store customer and prospect data by Sales teams, so effective that it is used by over 150,000 organisations today. Salesforce is often filled with contract…Salesforce4 min readSalesforce4 min read
Mar 7How to Enable Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)Author: Paul Graham Release Date: 13/01/2023 What came before SASE? Consider, for a moment, the work day before any form of internet. An office would have typing pools, filing cabinets (locked or not locked), a cash office, reception, and visitor book. All of these things were designed to control access within the four walls…Netskope3 min readNetskope3 min read
Mar 6Top 5 Splunk Use CasesAuthor: Grace Dolby Release Date: 06/03/2023 Splunk is one of the most versatile data platforms, meaning that there are many different ways we have seen our customers and partners leverage the verbose searching and out of the box integrations, here are a few of the most common use cases we…Splunk4 min readSplunk4 min read
Feb 28Three Common Errors Customers Face in SplunkAuthor: Grace Dolby Release Date: 15/11/2022 Working with a large customer base and supporting their Splunk deployments has led us to understand the common issues or queries that many will have when deploying or administrating a Splunk instance day-to-day. …Splunk4 min readSplunk4 min read
Feb 27What is HashiCorp Vault and How Does it Work?Author: John ‘JJ’ Jarvis Release Date: 21/02/2023 By now, you’ve probably heard about HashiCorp, or at least their flagship product: Terraform, which automates the provisioning of infrastructure through what’s dubbed Infrastructure as Code, or IaC, for short. …Hashicorp4 min readHashicorp4 min read
Jul 12, 2021The Difference between Splunk ES & Splunk Security EssentialsA common question from those new to Splunk Security is “What is the difference between Splunk Enterprise Security(ES) and Splunk Security Essentials (SSE)”, I think the answer lies primarily in outlining what Security Essentials is and what it provides for security operations. Security Essentials is a free application from Splunk…Splunk4 min readSplunk4 min read
Jun 21, 2021Deploying Okta at Somerford Associates — Our StoryWe are a Premier Partner with Okta and a user, so we know first hand the value and security Okta provides. Moving an entire identity stack to a new software can be hair raising, but luckily with the use of Okta at Somerford we were able to move our SSO…Okta3 min readOkta3 min read
Jun 17, 2021Taking the first steps towards SASE Cloud SecurityIn my opinion, the first question that anyone considering Cloud Security should ask themselves is ‘What do we define as cloud migration and what do we need to secure?’ I say this because many people consider ‘Cloud Migration’ to solely involve moving their on premise resources to a Cloud Provider…Netskope9 min readNetskope9 min read
Dec 22, 2020KnowBe4 PhishER Extension — PhishRIPRelease Date: 29/09/2020 Author: Andrew Weston Introduction PhishRIP was released earlier this year, and is available to all PhishER customers at no extra charge. PhishRIP is a new email quarantine feature that integrates with Microsoft Office 365 to help Remove, Inoculate, and Protect organisations against email threats so that phishing attacks can be shut down fast. …Knowbe42 min readKnowbe42 min read
Nov 3, 2020Leveraging Varonis with Splunk to Create a Holistic Data Security StateAuthor: Grace Maher Introduction In these unprecedented times, many of our IT departments are having to respond rapidly to the quickly changing business needs and the sudden increase in remote working. Whilst many businesses have focussed on increasing perimeter security, such as VPNs, remote working environments and SSO, there is a massive gap when…Interoperability3 min readInteroperability3 min read
