Data Security

We are far from the days when logging in was as easily implemented as a username, password, and cgi script in between your user’s anonymous and logged-in states. Today’s world is ruled by powerful web access management softwares that not only securely keep intruders from accessing your most secure pages but also allows for a user management system hooked up to your LDAP environment. Among them: HP’s IceWall SSO, IAM (Identity and Access Management), and CA Siteminder. Let’s focus on the latter.

Per their website, CA Siteminder promises to...

We rely on usernames and passwords to access various systems throughout the technology world - from laptops to bank accounts, from cloud storage to blogs - our accounts are protected by these authentication mechanisms. It is easy to forget the importance of these account credentials, until it is too late - if a username and password are breached, an unauthorized user can erase, view, and copy highly sensitive data.

Our Whitepaper, Cutting Risk in Half, explores the different methods and real life examples of how much risk...

Overview

In this post I'd like to cover an approach for integrating an external asset database with the Splunk App for Enterprise Security (ES).  This post is relevant for people just starting out with ES or who have used it for a while and want to improve the integration of their assets information with the application. 

For those wondering what an assets list is in the context of ES, it's a list containing information (such as...

Big Data surrounds us all, in some shape or form. Typically Big Data (billions or trillions of vast and complex records) is so large, that it requires new and powerful computational resources to process and store. These gigantic sets of data can be analyzed to comprehend patterns, associations, trends, and statistics that help better understand user experience, human behavior, interactions, engagement, etc.

Big Data analysis, such as the services offered by our Function1 Operational Intelligence team, can be provided for a range of industries including but not limited to: financial...