Unleashing AI for Unbreakable Digital Resilience in a Rapidly Evolving Landscape
Harness AI-Driven Innovation for Digital Resilience
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the swift advancement of AI has rendered digital resilience a critical priority for businesses. As AI technologies revolutionize data centers and workplace environments, organizations must adapt to these changes to ensure operational continuity and spark innovation. This is precisely why leading enterprises trust Splunk’s extensive platform for security and observability, which plays a crucial role in maintaining a secure and reliable digital infrastructure.
By incorporating dedicated threat analytics, cutting-edge AI for observability, efficient data management, and collaborative agreements with Cisco, Splunk is equipping businesses to thrive in an ever-changing AI-driven environment while addressing the challenges posed by the future of digital operations.
Enhancing Troubleshooting through Innovative AI Integrations
IT operations and engineering teams are under increasing pressure to achieve results. The emergence of hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures, joined with the integration of AI and the need for strong digital experiences, has complicated IT environments more than ever before. Organizations now demand effective solutions that simplify troubleshooting processes, speed up response times, and facilitate swift issue resolution. Through its partnership with Cisco, Splunk enables teams to collaborate seamlessly with shared data, context, and workflows that promote quick problem-solving, ensuring the integrity of digital systems and enhancing customer experiences.
Notable New Features from Splunk Observability at Cisco Live EMEA
- AI Assistant in Observability Cloud: Splunk’s cutting-edge AI Assistant, powered by revolutionary agentic AI technology, is crafted to provide support for queries related to your cloud applications and infrastructure. Simply type in your questions, and the Assistant will quickly analyze logs, metrics, and trace data, delivering essential insights into potential root causes and offering troubleshooting recommendations. This feature will be available soon in select regions of the US, Australia, and Europe. Discover how the AI Assistant can streamline Kubernetes debugging.
- ITSI 4.20 – Drift Detection: The Drift Detection feature within Splunk ITSI identifies abrupt changes in KPIs ahead of their potential impact on performance and continuously watches for gradual alterations, such as rising latency over time, that may indicate developing issues, allowing for proactive solutions. Read more about it here.
- Simplified Alert Onboarding in ITSI 4.20: Launching soon, this feature will ease the onboarding process for ITOps teams to Event Analytics via an assisted workflow that seamlessly ingests and transforms alerts from both Splunk and widely-used third-party tools (including Nagios, SolarWinds, and Microsoft SCOM) with pre-built templates and automated, context-aware event correlations.
- AppDynamics Add-on & Dedicated Content Pack: Also making its debut soon, the new AppDynamics Add-on and dedicated content pack for ITSI will enhance visibility, allowing teams to quickly identify and rectify issues in real-time by integrating AppDynamics with ITSI to create dynamic connections between application and infrastructure data and databases.
- AppDynamics Secure Application & Splunk Enterprise Security: The synergy between AppDynamics’ Secure Application and Splunk Enterprise Security yields unified visibility for ITOps and security teams. By funneling application attack data to the Splunk platform, analysts can receive timely alerts, enhancing the efficiency of security investigation workflows and facilitating quick issue resolution.
Constructing the Future SOC with Splunk Security
Splunk Security offers a cohesive approach to threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR), empowering a future-oriented Security Operations Center (SOC) for improved digital resilience. Collaborating with Cisco, our advanced security solutions protect an organization’s entire digital ecosystem from modern cyber threats at scale, leveraging an exceptional range of data from both Splunk and Cisco to confront security challenges with confidence.
Key Innovations from Splunk Security at Cisco Live EMEA
- Boosting Threat Detection via Cisco Talos Integration: Customers of Splunk Security cloud can now take full advantage of Cisco Talos’ threat intelligence through direct integrations, including Cisco Talos Intelligence for Enterprise Security, the Cisco Talos Intelligence connector for Splunk SOAR, and a feature in Splunk Attack Analyzer — all at no additional charge. These developments bolster SOC capabilities with powerful intelligence for rapid risk detection and mitigation.
- Improving Analyst Productivity with AI Assistant in Enterprise Security (Preview): This preview version of the AI Assistant in Enterprise Security is set to enhance the productivity of security analysts by providing answers to queries that simplify daily workflows, enabling faster threat responses through natural language questions during investigations.
- Optimizing TDIR Workflows with Splunk Enterprise Security 8.0: The launch of Splunk Enterprise Security 8.0 paves the way for the next generation of SIEM, equipping SOC teams to manage holistic TDIR workflows, adopt automation through native Splunk SOAR integrations, and enhance detection engineering capabilities, all within the Splunk Enterprise Security framework.
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