Datadog at its DASH 2025 conference today previewed a raft of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that automate tasks ranging from assessing infrastructure alerts that normally require the expertise of a site reliability engineer (SRE), to fixing code and triaging cybersecurity issues using the company’s security information event management (SIEM) platform. In addition, Datadog is also […]
Identify Needs First
In several projects of late, I have noted a trend in otherwise rockstar IT departments: They identify an area that they wish to implement or approve and then set out to address it. So, “We need a new CI tool,” spawns a project to choose and implement a new CI tool, for example. But there […]
Will Splunk be Gobbled up by Cisco?
Word on the street is that Cisco and Splunk are in discussions about a possible acquisition. Splunk, the technology monitoring, search and analytics company could be acquired by Cisco—originally a networking company but now a complex hardware and software conglomerate. Splunk has generated quite a reputation as a ‘dealer’ over the years. The company, much […]
DevSecOps Implementation: SIEM
The world is filled with events. Our inbox floods with events that marketers really want us to pay attention to, while news feeds flood us with events they’re trying to raise above the background noise, but then, the dog barking interrupts our consumption of that information. Our family is, meanwhile, texting us about events on […]
How Centralized Log Management Can Save Your Company
Through centralized log management, organizations can consolidate all log data into one central, data highway and directs logs wherever they need to go The digital transformation wasn’t gradual. It came crashing into industries worldwide in response to safety restrictions around the pandemic. Nearly a third of Americans are working remotely in light of the pandemic—drastically […]
Meeting the Need for Speed in Cyber Threat Response
In the very early days of the internet, hackers most likely were “lone wolves.” They might be an unhappy customer, a disgruntled employee or a tech-savvy youth who just wanted to see if he could breach a target’s defenses. Occasionally, hackers might aspire to more devious crimes including identity theft, blackmail, theft of trade secrets, […]