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The University of Exeter – Part 2: “Zero to SIEM” in 8 weeks, the Splunk Deployment 04/09/19 – Author: Baz Donaghue – Certified Splunk Consultant at Somerford Associates The first and subsequent steps on any organisations IT Security journey can be difficult and uncertain at the best of times. To go from little or no

Somerford Blog 10 Ways Observability will Benefit your Organisation & How Does it Differ to Monitoring Author: Paul Winchester Date: 21/09/2022 Linkedin Twitter Youtube I.T. is changing rapidly. Monolithic software is being broken down and rebuilt using technologies such as containerisation and micro services, and these are increasingly hosted in the Cloud. DevOps approaches to

Somerford Blog Setting up SplunkWeb with Third Party Certificates End-to-End on a Built Environment (Part 2) Author: Laurence Everitt Release Date: 29/05/2024 Introduction This is the second part of a 3 part explanation of how to uplift SplunkWeb from presenting a regular HTTP website to using full-blown SSL/TLS HTTPS website, end-to-end. For further information, please

Somerford Blog Setting up SplunkWeb with Third Party Certificates End-to-End on a Built Environment (Part 3) Author: Laurence Everitt Release Date: 29/05/2024 Introduction This is the last part of a 3 part explanation of how to uplift SplunkWeb from presenting a regular HTTP website to using full-blown SSL/TLS HTTPS website, end-to-end. For further information, please

Somerford Blog Introducing Somerford Connect: A New Approach to Managed Splunk Services Author: Carl Parker Release Date: 30/09/2024 Somerford Connect is a forward thinking flexible managed service developed by Somerford Associates to help organisations unlock the full potential of Splunk. Moving beyond conventional models, Somerford Connect integrates Splunk licensing with a bespoke, output-focused service delivery,

Somerford Blog Splunk .conf25 Updates — Unifying Enterprise Resilience in the AI Era Author: Rosie Whitfield Release Date: 17/09/2025 It has been over a year since Cisco’s strategic acquisition of Splunk, a move that was immediately recognised for its financial acumen. However, at Somerford Associates, our focus has always been on the deeper technical and

Somerford Blog ITSI – Getting to the Heart of the Problem Author: Andy Gibbs Release Date: 26/06/2019 Its 3 o’clock in the morning and you are unceremoniously awoken by your smartphone. That beautiful dream you were just having dissolves into a stark reality – you’re being beckoned onto a priority 1 emergency incident call. Critical