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Thursday 12 September 2024 is R U OK day, and this year cybersecurity and cloud services provider Tesserent reminds us all to check in on our security teams after another year with relentless cybercriminals.

COMPANY NEWS: Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, today announced an expansion of its cyber and data security ecosystem through strategic integrations with an array of security partners: Acante, Dasera, Google Cloud, Splunk, and Wiz.

COMPANY NEWS: Exabeam, a global cybersecurity leader that delivers AI-driven security operations, today announced two pioneering cybersecurity features, Threat Centre and Exabeam Copilot, to its market leading AI-driven Exabeam Security Operations Platform.

Cloud computing is the new normal for many enterprises. Yet, there are companies still to embrace the cloud, and there are companies who have lifted and shifted but aren't seeing the benefits of power or cost they expected. Here's my take on cloud migration.

Machine data logger, searcher, and analyser, Splunk has entered a definitive agreement to be acquired by network giant Cisco in an all-cash transaction at approximately US$30 billion in enterprise value.

At the recent Splunk .conf23, iTWire took the opportunity to chat with Gary Steele, the recently appointed President and CEO of the company.

Splunk’s ability to collect all the data from an organisation had a gap – they had no visibility into plant operational parameters. That is now fixed.

The opening keynote at Splunk’s .conf23 gave us a partnership with Microsoft, a new OT data accumulation device and a major foray into AI.

New addition enables customers to maximise their security investment, expedite implementation, and streamline threat detection

COMPANY NEWS: BlueVoyant, a cybersecurity company that illuminates, validates, and remediates internal and external risks, today announced MXDR for Splunk.

New addition enables customers to maximise their security investment, expedite implementation, and streamline threat detection

COMPANY NEWS: BlueVoyant, a cybersecurity company that illuminates, validates, and remediates internal and external risks, today announced MXDR for Splunk.

Gas and electricity provider Jemena has chosen the Salt Security API Protection Platform to protect its critical gas and electricity infrastructure.

COMPANY NEWS: ExtraHop, a leader in cloud-native network detection and response (NDR), today announced it has been recognised by Gartner in the Overall Enterprise Network Equipment Market, Worldwide, 4Q22¹, ranking second in NDR market share. 

Open source solutions provider Red Hat has announced several enhancements to Red Hat Insights, its predictive analytics offering, including integrations for ServiceNow and Slack as well as expanded monitoring capabilities to identify known threats in Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Splunk has awarded SA Health with the Splunk Asia Pacific innovation award for best practices, recognising the organisation's platform design, implementation, collaboration, and leadership in the health sector.

GUEST OPINION: In this Q&A interview, Exabeam vice president of sales for APJ Gareth Cox provides an overview of Exabeam and how it is different from security vendors, gives an honest insight on the state of security in Australia, and advises what Australian organisations can do to thwart and counter the rising cases of cyber attacks.

Splunk Enterprise 9.0 has reached general availability, meaning it’s out right now for Splunk cloud and on-premises users alike. The product includes more than 40 major new features and over 100 additional enhancements. This includes federated search across non-Splunk data and strong unification of security and observability.

The last 12 months have seen normally stable Splunk go through a whirlwind of change in the top brass but new CEO Gary Steele says he sees his role as a 10+ year commitment and is here to stay, while new ANZ Exec Mark Troselj sees the region undergoing growth.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has found that 17 countries are responsible for most of the disinformation spread through Twitter, none of which are from the Five Eyes grouping. Europe is largely absent too. Who knew?

Security vendor Tenable has appointed Johnny Yap to the role of APAC channel director.

Splunk announced Gary Steele will be its new CEO as of 11 April 2022. Steele was the founding CEO of Proofpoint taking it from an early-stage start-up to a global, publicly-traded security-as-a-service provider. Steele also held leadership roles at Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, and Portera.