The Splunk Effect - by Omer Singer - Omer on Security

The data revolution has transformed every facet of modern enterprises, unleashing productivity and insights across each department with one notable exception. In cybersecurity, a generation of analysts finds itself years behind its peers, tethered to an approach that is powerless to tap into the biggest thing in tech since the World Wide Web. Much of the blame for this predicament falls on Splunk—the pervasive platform that inadvertently shaped security operations into a silo of search-driven rather than analysis-driven methodologies. Understanding how we got here can help us rejoin the rest of the enterprise and hopefully not miss out on the promise of data and AI. Subscribed In 2006, ComputerWorld published an article titled “Splunk Inc.'s Splunk Data Center Search Party” that described the hit new product’s key to success. Splunk's sweet spot is knowledgeable IT experts who have a good idea of what they are looking for but are having difficulty finding it in the haystack of error lo

The data revolution has transformed every facet of modern enterprises, unleashing productivity and insights across each department with one notable exception. In cybersecurity, a generation of analysts finds itself years behind its peers, tethered to an approach that is powerless to tap into the biggest thing in tech since the World Wide Web. Much of the blame for this predicament falls on Splunk—the pervasive platform that inadvertently shaped security operations into a silo of search-driven rather than analysis-driven methodologies. Understanding how we got here can help us rejoin the rest o