ICS and Splunk – Security By Obscurity No Longer Good for all Skill Levels | Industries: Energy & Utilities | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Security Analyst, Operations Manager | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: IoT Industrial Data | Other Topics: Customer Success Story, Getting Data In Speakers Chris Duffey , SCADA Coordinator, Enterprise Product Partners L.P.

Industrial control systems (ICS) are responsible for controlling some of most critical processes and infrastructure on the Earth. Designed primarily around availability, these systems are increasingly interconnected with business networks and, in some cases, public networks like the Internet. In days past, the security mantra for these systems was simply “security by obscurity.” The truth is that ICS vendors and operators had little or no visibility into security within these systems. Modern attacks like StuxNet and the attack recently on a Ukranian power company have shown this is no longer a safe assumption. In addition, many conventional IT tools are not designed with the constraints necessary to operate properly within these environments without impacting operations. However, the Splunk platform provides the needed customization necessary to gain real insights into the security of the ICS environment. This presentation will focus on an actual implementation of Splunk within an Industrial control system (specifically SCADA) and the insights it has provided to this once “obscure” system. Description

Anomaly Detection on Business Items with Machine Learning Algorithms Intermediate | Industries: Retail, Online Services | Products: Splunk Enterprise, Other, Splunk IT Service Intelligence | Role: Data Scientist/Analyst | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Business Analytics | Other Topics: Customer Success Story, Machine Learning Speakers Andre Pietsch , Product Manager, OTTO (GmbH and Co. KG)

Stefan Scholz , Senior Consultant Data Analytics, LC Systems GmbH

You have a LOT of events. You have beautiful dashboards and reports. They are even in real time. But who should sit in front of them with the trigger finger on the mouse waiting for something interesting to happen? We want to show you what to consider to be able to detect anomalies with the help of machine learning algorithms. Description

Machine Learning Using Splunk and R Advanced | Industries: Energy & Utilities | Products: Other, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Data Scientist/Analyst | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Data Science Machine Learning | Other Topics: Platform extensibility, Best Practices, Machine Learning, Thought Leadership Speakers Marianne Faro , Itility

Daniel Koops , MSc, Itility

Gijs Wobben , Itility

Splunk's machine learning toolkit, in combination with R, provides a powerful tool for real predictive and prescriptive analytics. Each month Itility hosts a machine learning hackathon to dig into large data sets and create new value from them. In this session, Itility will share examples, experiences, algorithms and use cases. Description

Splunk for Donuts: Optimizing the Customer Experience at Dunkin' with Splunk Intermediate | Industries: Retail | Products: Other, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Business Manager, Splunk Technical Champion, Data Scientist/Analyst | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Business Analytics | Other Topics: Machine Learning, Customer Success Story Speakers Matthew Kraft , Director Consumer Technology and Mobile, Dunkin' Brands

Brian Nash , Architect, Business Analytics and IoT, Splunk

If you like your coffee hot and your donuts fresh, then you want a donut shop powered by Splunk! Learn how Dunkin' Donuts has improved their guests' experience using Splunk to gain value from their machine data, and explore some inspirational ideas on optimizing operations and real-time digital marketing in the retail sector. Description

Splunk at a Telco: Assessing Outages and Improving Customer Experience with Machine Learning Intermediate | Industries: Communications | Products: Other, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Data Scientist/Analyst, Security Analyst, Architect | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Data Science Machine Learning | Other Topics: Machine Learning, Thought Leadership, Customer Success Story, What's New?! Speakers Andrew Phillips , Senior Sales Engineer, Splunk

Learn how a leading Mobile Telco was able to utilize Splunk's Machine Learning capabilities to identify patterns of repeated problems across thousands of cell towers. This presentation will detail how the customer analyzed alarms generated by known "repeat offenders" to create a mathematical model which was then applied to other alarms to identify cells with similar root cause problems, reducing MTTR, workload, truck rolls and maintenance. Description

What's New: The Unification of Splunk Enterprise and Analytics on Hadoop Intermediate | Industries: Technology | Products: Splunk Enterprise, Other | Role: Security Analyst, Splunk Technical Champion, Developer, Data Scientist/Analyst, Administrator, Architect | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Splunk Enterprise Whats New | Other Topics: Big Data Architecture, Getting Data In, What's New?! Speakers James Hodge , Principal Product Manager, Splunk

Keith Schon , Principal Software Engineer, Splunk

Come learn what’s new with Splunk Enterprise and Hunk and how we’re making it easier than ever for Splunk Enterprise customers to leverage Hadoop. Description

Splunk as an Intelligent Platform: From Log Aggregation to Machine-assisted Analysis at Nordstrom Advanced | Industries: Retail | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Architect, Developer, Operations Manager | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Business Innovation | Other Topics: Customer Success Story Speakers Gopal Brugalette , Senior Architect, Nordstrom

Ashwin Kothari , Nordstrom

In this session we will explore the evolution of Splunk analytics in an enterprise, progressing from log aggregation to dashboarding and finally machine-assisted analysis. This is where Splunk software becomes an intelligent platform, calculating and displaying complex information, beyond just log data. Learn how Nordstrom has gone beyond graphing simple log data to increase the efficiency of performance testing cycles and to help predict, prevent, identify and resolve production issues faster. Nordstrom is using Splunk for partial analysis, enabling their people to focus on areas that require insight and context. We'll discuss how the methodologies and concepts of this approach to machine-assisted human analysis can be implemented for any system. Description

Real-Time Monitoring of a Cloud-Based Micro-Service Architecture Using Splunk Cloud and the HTTP Event Collector Beginner | Industries: Financial Services | Products: Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Business Manager, Operations Manager | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Cloud Strategies | Other Topics: Amazon Web Services, httpEventCollector Speakers Matt Poland , Senior Sales Engineer, Splunk

Mike Sclimenti , Sr. Systems Engineer, Experian

In this session Experian Consumer Services will discuss how they migrated a legacy 3 tier web architecture to a full cloud based architecture, in AWS, using microservices. They will review the architecture and lessons learned from deploying Splunk Cloud using the Splunk App for AWS, S3, Kinesis, Lambda functions, and the HTTP Event Collector. It will also show how they went from 15 minutes of latency on production dashboards, to sub-5 seconds of latency sending the logs directly from Kinesis, via Lambda, to the HTTP Event Collector. Description

Best Practices for Working with Splunk Cloud Intermediate | Industries: Technology | Products: Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Operations Manager, Splunk Technical Champion | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Cloud Strategies | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Dennis Bourg , Cloud Adoption, Splunk

Eric Six , Cloud Adoption, Splunk

This session will cover best practices when working with Splunk Cloud. We'll review common cloud and hybrid deployment architectures, effectively on-boarding data, creating apps that will pass the vetting process, submitting ticket requests and working with cloud adoption and cloud operations. Description

Splunking AWS for End-to-end Visibility Beginner | Industries: Technology, Energy & Utilities | Products: Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Security Analyst, Operations Manager | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Cloud Strategies | Other Topics: Amazon Web Services, Customer Success Story Speakers Patrick Shumate , Solution Architect, Amazon

Randall Young , Principal Product Manager, Splunk

Qianjie Zhong , Director, Software Engineering, Splunk

Whether you’re moving to cloud—or already there—you need to address lack of visibility into cloud infrastructure and the security challenges that come with it. In this session, you'll hear from Splunk about how to address these challenges using the Splunk App for AWS to help you gain end-to-end visibility into operations and security behaviors within your AWS environments — enabling you to move your mission-critical workloads to AWS with agility and security. We'll show you how the Splunk App for AWS integrates with AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon VPC Flow Logs, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon ELB and AWS billing, and how pre-built dashboards in the app help you visualize critical information on the health, usage and security of your AWS environments. Description

Real-world Advantages of Choosing a 'Lean SOC’ Approach Over a 'Legacy SOC'. Lessons Learned from the UK’s Largest Home Improvement Retailer. Intermediate | Industries: Retail | Products: Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security | Role: Architect, Security Analyst | Track: Security / Compliance / Fraud | Session Focus: Cloud Strategies | Other Topics: Best Practices, Customer Success Story Speakers Nick Bleech , Head of Information Security, Travis Perkins

Travis Perkins has a complex hybrid IT infrastructure and is in midst of migrating to the cloud. This session will outline the pitfalls from their initial infrastructure-heavy legacy SOC approach and the success they gained when they moved to a cloud-based ‘lean SOC’. You will learn how they found “Explosions in the Sky” and integrated Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise Security on their journey to secure their hybrid digital enterprise. You will also learn how their business process now leverage the Splunk platform, as well. Description

Splunk Cloud at BBC Worldwide: Operational and Business Analytics to Support a New Digital Service Good for all Skill Levels | Industries: Media & Entertainment | Products: Splunk Cloud | Role: Operations Manager | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Business Analytics | Other Topics: Customer Success Story Speakers Zoe Bolton , Head of Service Operations, BBC

Discover how BBC Worldwide successfully launched a new digital service – BBC Store – based on analytics generated using Splunk Cloud. This session will show how BBCW created critical insights in a tight time frame and with limited technical resources. Learn how to translate business insights into impact for operations, maximizing value from your data. Description

Gaining Business Analytics to Build a Data-Driven Airport – from Vision to Reality at Gatwick Airport Beginner | Industries: Travel & Transportation | Products: Splunk Cloud | Role: CISO, CIO, Splunk Technical Champion | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Business Analytics | Other Topics: Customer Success Story, Platform extensibility Speakers Chris Howell , Head of Business Systems, Gatwick Airport

Using Splunk, Gatwick Airport is able to get 95% of passengers through airport security in 5 minutes or less. Attend this session to learn how Gatwick Airport instrumented data from the airport environment to gain a real-time view into operational efficiency and improve passenger experience. You will learn about their journey from vision to implementation, and how they drove adoption across business (non-technical) users. You will also hear how Gatwick designed a successful data strategy, created new data-driven services and got buy-in from the business. Description

Using Splunk to Create the First HIPAA Cloud Compliant Infrastructure at Harvard to Secure Clinical and Genetic Patient Data on AWS Beginner | Industries: Healthcare, Higher Education | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Data Scientist/Analyst, Security Analyst, CISO | Track: Security / Compliance / Fraud | Session Focus: Compliance | Other Topics: Thought Leadership, Amazon Web Services, Customer Success Story Speakers Paul Avillach , Assistant Professor, Harvard University

This session will describe the strategy and implementation for creating the first approved HIPAA compliant research infrastructure on AWS at Harvard University. This wouldn’t have been possible without the Splunk platform. Integrating clinical data with genetic data is crucial to discover new drug treatments. This data is very sensitive as it contains all names of patients with their detailed genetic results. Working on AWS, we created a HIPAA compliant, fully monitored, secured infrastructure. We'll discuss all steps, from how we installed Splunk on our dedicated VPC on AWS to how we configured the Splunk forwarders, to creating alerts, reports and dashboards to monitor our infrastructure and custom research applications running on Tomcat and JBoss. Description

Building Splunk Visualizations with the New Custom Visualization API Advanced | Products: Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Architect, Splunk Technical Champion, Developer | Track: Developing | Session Focus: Splunk As A Platform | Other Topics: Dev Tools, customVisualizations, What's New?!, Platform extensibility Speakers Marshall Agnew , Senior Software Engineer, Splunk

This session will be an in-depth look at the new Splunk Custom Visualization API. It will cover how and why to use custom visualizations in the Splunk platform, and show how to build a visualization from scratch in JavaScript. The talk will go over getting started with building custom visualizations, formatting data for visualization, rendering using JavaScript and D3, and best practices for producing clean visualizations. In addition, it will show how to surface visualizations in Splunk and make them available to the community on Splunkbase. Description

HTTP Event Collector in Splunk - More Super Powers! Advanced | Products: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud | Role: Splunk Technical Champion, Architect, Developer, Administrator | Track: Developing | Session Focus: Splunk Enterprise Whats New | Other Topics: Getting Data In, What's New?!, Platform extensibility, Dev Tools, Logging Frameworks, httpEventCollector Speakers Shakeel Mohamed , Software Engineer, Splunk

Itay Neeman , Director of Engineering, Splunk

In Splunk 6.5, we've enhanced HTTP Event Collector with more super powers! You can now send raw data directly rather than having to use our JSON event protocol. With indexer acknowledgment you can ensure critical events are indexed. And this is just the beginning. In this demo-packed session see how you can unlock these powers within your Splunk development. Description

Faster Splunk App Certification with Splunk AppInspect Intermediate | Products: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, Other | Role: Splunk Technical Champion, Architect, Developer | Track: Developing | Session Focus: Splunk As A Platform | Other Topics: Dev Tools, App Ecosystem, Development Best Practices, Best Practices, Platform extensibility, What's New?! Speakers Grigori Melnik , Director, Product Management, Splunk

Andrew Nortrup , Product Manager, App Certification, Splunk

The Splunk App Certification Program provides assurances to YOU that apps have been examined and found to conform to best practices for Splunk app development, including review for security vulnerabilities. This session will explain the benefits of the certification program for app developers and consumers. We will detail the process and demonstrate how to achieve app certification quickly and efficiently. We will also introduce our new static analysis tool, Splunk AppInspect, which validates apps for structure, configuration best practices, readiness for cloud deployment, basic security reviews, and more! Description

Monitoring the Industrial Internet of Things: A Guide to Application Performance Management with Splunk Good for all Skill Levels | Industries: Technology, Energy & Utilities | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Operations Manager, Architect, Administrator, Splunk Technical Champion, Developer | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: IoT Industrial Data | Other Topics: Best Practices, Customer Success Story, Dev Tools, Development Best Practices Speakers Chris Winkler , Performance Engineering Team Lead, EnerNOC

Application performance management is a cornerstone to site reliability. Tracking, trending and alerting on application performance is required in all environments. When coupled with properly instrumented applications and test automation tools, the Splunk platform is a robust application performance management solution. This session will provide techniques to monitor application performance with Splunk. Description

MQTT, CEP and the other LMNOP's of the IoT Advanced | Industries: Manufacturing, Retail, Technology, Travel & Transportation, Energy & Utilities, Aerospace and Defense, Healthcare | Products: Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Architect, Splunk Technical Champion, Data Scientist/Analyst, Administrator, Operations Manager | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: IoT Industrial Data | Other Topics: Thought Leadership, Getting Data In, What's New?!, httpEventCollector, Platform extensibility Speakers Brian Gilmore , Director, Solution Architecture, IoT and Big Data Ecosystem, Splunk

The IoT is literally becoming an alphabet soup of protocols, technology trends, and analytics approaches. Join this session to learn how M2M protocols like MQTT are being leveraged in the IoT, how popular technology trends like PaaS and SaaS are utilized in consumer and enterprise IoT solutions, and also how analytics strategies like CEP and ML are helping companies realize value from their IoT and IIoT projects. We’ll cover the acronyms and cut through the hype - demonstrating exactly how IoT can positively impact your business Description

Business Analytics With Splunk - The Secret Behind our SaaS Growth Success Beginner | Industries: Financial Services | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Business Manager, Splunk Technical Champion, Developer, Data Scientist/Analyst | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Business Analytics | Other Topics: Customer Success Story Speakers Hamish Purdey , Chief Executive, Intelliflo

Robert Walton , COO, Intelliflo

At Intelliflo our systems enable clients to manage over $400 billion of assets. This means giving the right advice, appropriate deployment and best service – so we need to know what’s happening in real-time within our business. Splunk software's business analytics functionality allows us to see the information we need in real time across all disciplines within the business. Description

Splunking SAP – Provide Instant Business Value by Unlocking SAP Data for IT, OT and Security Use Cases Across Your Enterprise Intermediate | Industries: Healthcare, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail, Communications, Aerospace and Defense, Energy & Utilities, Travel & Transportation | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Architect, Business Manager, Operations Manager, Splunk Technical Champion | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Business Analytics | Other Topics: Customer Success Story, Thought Leadership, Getting Data In Speakers Warwick Chai , Managing Director, BNW Consulting

This session describes how PowerConnect for Splunk enables you to efficiently and securely unlock the extensive operational data within SAP systems for IT, OT and security use cases. This session will explain how to gain greater insight into your SAP landscape’s operational health, compliance to government regulations and overall security posture. Description

Monitor Your Business Transactions with Splunk to Gain Real-Time Insights Into Your Business Performance Intermediate | Industries: Financial Services, Online Services, Technology, Communications, Retail, Healthcare | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Architect, Splunk Technical Champion, Business Manager | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Business Analytics | Other Topics: Getting Data In, Thought Leadership Speakers Stephane Lapie , Sales Engineer, Splunk

Romain Testu , Senior Presales Consultant, Splunk

When you set up an ESB, there are three monitoring levels you should consider: technical, functional and business. Good news, you can address all of them within a single solution, Splunk. This is the purpose of this session, monitor your ESB infrastructure and leverage its central position in your business transactions to build business KPI and monitor in real time your business berformance. Description

Splunk Improving Soldier’s Efficiency and Healthcare Logistics in the Battlefield Good for all Skill Levels | Industries: Healthcare, Public Sector, Aerospace and Defense | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Splunk Technical Champion, Data Scientist/Analyst, Architect | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: IoT Industrial Data | Other Topics: Getting Data In, customVisualizations, Thought Leadership, Machine Learning Speakers Justin Boucher , Senior Sales Engineer, Splunk

Ramik Chopra , Senior Sales Engineer, Splunk

Militaries around the world continue to adopt cutting-edge technology to ensure operational mission success. Soldiers returning home safe is considered priority 1. Complete real-time situational awareness in operations and continuous monitoring of health of soldiers are both critical for this initiative. In this session, we will show how Splunk improves the efficiency of soldier and medical logistics in the battlefield. Description

Gaining New Insight Into the Payment Business Process Beginner | Industries: Financial Services | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Splunk Technical Champion, Architect, Operations Manager, Data Scientist/Analyst | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Business Analytics | Other Topics: Customer Success Story, customVisualizations Speakers Markus Sprunck , Senior IT Architect, UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions S.C.p.A.

Developing a business activity monitoring solution for a complex payments infrastructure had many challenging requirements - this talk focuses on the lessons learned from the project. Users requested insight into varying business functions, as well as the ability to complete new searches and UI customization through testing, advanced use of the Splunk platform and a focus on quality. Description

Tracking Trading (FIX) Environments with Splunk Intermediate | Industries: Financial Services | Products: Other, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Architect, Data Scientist/Analyst | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Data Science Machine Learning | Other Topics: Machine Learning, Getting Data In, Customer Success Story, Thought Leadership Speakers Duncan Turnbull , EMEA Analytics and IoT Technical Lead, Splunk

This session will detail real-world experiences in monitoring trading (FIX) environments including decoding FIX messages to make them usable, stitching together multiple identifiers across disparate systems to tell them complete story of a trade and using this information to gain Operational Intelligence in a trading setting. Other advanced use cases include alerting-by-exception and using statistical and machine learning techniques from the Machine Learning Toolkit and modular alerting. Description

“Listen to the Wind, It Talks” - Monitoring Wind Energy Production from SCADA Systems with Splunk Intermediate | Industries: Energy & Utilities | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Operations Manager, Architect, Business Manager | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: IoT Industrial Data | Other Topics: Customer Success Story, Getting Data In Speakers Victor Sanchez , Information and Application Architect, Infigen Energy

Infigen is a renewable energy company in Australia that generates a massive amount of data from the wind turbines controlled by SCADA systems. Infigen’s Control Centre operates on a 24x7 basis constantly monitoring not only windfarm events and weather forecast, but also energy demand, price and market conditions. Splunk is Infigen’s monitoring platform across its business-critical systems. Description

How Splunk Can Provide Real-Time Operational Insights to Drive Performance & Customer Excellence in a Call Center Environment Good for all Skill Levels | Industries: Communications | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Architect, Business Manager, Splunk Technical Champion | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Business Analytics | Other Topics: Getting Data In, Customer Success Story Speakers Tracy Leighton , Head of Planning and Quality, 2degrees mobile

Understand how 2degrees uses the Splunk platform to enable real-time management of customer care performance to evolve one of New Zealand’s best customer experiences. Reaping the rewards of ‘fingertip’ information, Splunk moved us toward proactive management of customer interactions and provided deeper insight into underlying trends. This included driving efficiency and productivity but making a positive difference to engagement for both our customers and staff. Description

Splunk on the Shopfloor: Improving Plant Operations with Splunk Good for all Skill Levels | Industries: Manufacturing | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Splunk Technical Champion, Operations Manager | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: IoT Industrial Data | Other Topics: Customer Success Story, Getting Data In, Platform extensibility Speakers Lin Stokes , Business Intelligence Analyst III, Supply Chain Business Solutions, Shaw Industries Group Inc.

Erika Swartz , Sr. Process Engineer, Shaw Industries Group Inc.

The sophisticated environment of a modern manufacturing plant demands that workers and management constantly synthesize data sources from different systems to optimize operations. Data comes not only from industrial sensors but also from worker observations. We show how the use of Splunk software to collect, analyze, and report this information in real time drives continuous improvement and business metrics. Description

Leveraging Splunk Analytics for Business Intelligence and DevOps: API Activity and Performance Beginner | Industries: Financial Services | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Architect, Business Manager, Splunk Technical Champion | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Business Analytics | Other Topics: Customer Success Story, ODBC, Getting Data In, customVisualizations Speakers Tim Watkins , Senior Consultant, Platform Architecture and Support, MasterCard

You have Splunk software, now extend its value and your ROI. The Splunk Enterprise native analytics functionality can often save funding allocated for analytics software systems like Tableau®, Looker® or the like. This track will explain how as we explore Splunk analytics for BI & DevOps with a use case covering consumer market response behavior, customer activity and API performance for DevOps. Description

From IT Troubleshooting and Service Monitoring to Predicting Student Achievement: An Operations-Research Love Story Intermediate | Industries: Higher Education, Public Sector | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Splunk Technical Champion, Architect, Business Manager | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Business Analytics | Other Topics: Customer Success Story, Getting Data In Speakers Matthew Bernacki , Assistant Professor, UNLV

Cam Johnson , Operations Center Manager, UNLV

Liz Whitaker-Freitas , Senior Solutions Engineer, Splunk

Come hear the story of a typical Splunk user who learned how troubleshooting and service monitoring could be used not just with machines and their data, but with people and theirs. When operations teamed up with researchers and used LMS data that was there all along, they learned important lessons about their students – and found that students’ own data could help them learn better. Description

Lesser Known Search Commands Intermediate | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Data Scientist/Analyst, Splunk Technical Champion, Administrator, Security Analyst | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Search Language | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Kyle Smith , Integration Developer, Aplura

An overview with examples of SPL search commands that are new or of a more advanced nature that people may not know about or use often. This is an updated presentation of the talk I gave at .conf2014 and at several Splunk events since. Commands I cover include contingency, makeresults, map, noop, etc. Description

Behind the Magnifying Glass: How Search Works Good for all Skill Levels | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Developer, Administrator, Data Scientist/Analyst, Splunk Technical Champion, Architect, Security Analyst | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Search Language | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Jeff Champagne , Staff Architect, Splunk

What actually happens when you click the search button? Why should I use search criteria like index, sourcetype, or source? Is it REALLY that bad if I just use all time? This session will answer those questions and more! We will help you write better searches by explaining exactly what's going on behind the scenes and how different search terms can improve performance. Description

Fields, Indexed Tokens and You Advanced | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Operations Manager, Splunk Technical Champion, Data Scientist/Analyst, Architect, Developer, Administrator, Security Analyst | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Search Language | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Martin Muller , Consultant, Consist Software Solutions GmbH

Splunk software does many things to make your searches run fast. Most importantly, Splunk has to narrow down the set of potentially matching events. The fewer events Splunk has to scan, the faster your search will run. In this session we will explore how Splunk software uses fields and indexed tokens to achieve this, and how you can leverage them to your advantage. You will learn how to detect optimization potential in your searches and how to make meaningful changes. Additionally, we will cover how common configurations can have great impact on search performance. Description

It's 10PM - Do You Know Where Your Data Is? Good for all Skill Levels | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Administrator, Splunk Technical Champion, Data Scientist/Analyst | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Using Splunk | Other Topics: Best Practices, Getting Data In Speakers Jason Timlin , Engagement Manager, Professional Services, Splunk

Data in Splunk is based on time. If event times are wrong, statistics can be inaccurate and data from searches can be missed! In this talk, we will review how to check if event times and timezones are correct in your Splunk environment and how to fix them if they aren't. Description

Architecting Splunk for High Availability and Disaster Recovery Intermediate | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Administrator, Architect, Splunk Technical Champion, Operations Manager | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Splunk Classics | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Dritan Bitincka , Principal Architect, Splunk

As Splunk software becomes more critical to organizations and business functions, it becomes more important to maximize the uptime of the service. We'll talk about general principles of high availability and disaster recovery with Splunk software. We'll also discuss the various mechanisms for providing them, the levels of availability, relative advantages and costs of each of them. Description

Observations and Recommendations on Splunk Performance Advanced | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Administrator, Splunk Technical Champion, Architect | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Splunk Classics | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Dritan Bitincka , Principal Architect, Splunk

A session on Splunk indexing and search performance analysis under various conditions and environments (physical vs. virtual). Focus will be around debunking common misconceptions and presenting best practices. Description

Shop Smart at the KV Store: Best Value Tricks from the Splunk KV Store and REST API Intermediate | Products: Other, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Security Analyst, Developer, Architect, Data Scientist/Analyst, Administrator, Splunk Technical Champion | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Using Splunk | Other Topics: What's New?!, Best Practices Speakers George Starcher , Senior Security Engineer, Defense Point Security

Duane Waddle , Senior Security Engineer, Defense Point Security

Duane Waddle , Senior Security Engineer, Defense Point Security

This year we bring you code and fun use cases for the Splunk KV Store for both security and IT ops. Topics include syncing relational DB tables into KV Store, synchronizing collections across different search heads, manipulation of ES asset/threat intel, and using KV Store plus some external code to give the security team the ability to block traffic flows automatically from within Splunk software. Description

The Chargeback App Good for all Skill Levels | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Splunk Technical Champion, Administrator, Operations Manager, Business Manager | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Managing Splunk | Other Topics: Big Data Architecture, Best Practices Speakers James Donn , Senior Sales Engineer, Splunk

If you are running Splunk software in a medium to large environment, you are probably sharing your instance with other groups. In many places, this results in one group running Splunk software as a service for any number of internal customers. The challenge then becomes sharing the maintenance costs and run rates of the infrastructure and ensuring that no one abuses your license! The Charge Back App is used to calculate run rates for Splunk software and audit your customers usage, resolving these problems. In this talk, I will cover the history, strategy, and additional features of the app before showing a quick demo. Description

"Splunking" Your z/OS Mainframe Good for all Skill Levels | Industries: Manufacturing, Retail, Other, Energy & Utilities, Communications, Healthcare, Financial Services, Higher Education | Products: Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Security Analyst, Operations Manager, CIO, CISO, CTO | Track: IT Operations | Session Focus: Big Data Architecture | Other Topics: Platform extensibility, Logging Frameworks, Getting Data In, Big Data Architecture Speakers Ed Hallock , Director, Product Management, Syncsort, Inc.

If you are responsible for z/OS systems – or applications that run on z/OS – getting insight on security and IT operations data is critical. In this session, you will get an overview of how Syncsort Ironstream® can be used to forward critical IBM z/OS mainframe system security and IT operational data to Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security for analysis and an integrated 360 degree view of your entire enterprise. Description

Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? (Who watches the watchmen?) OR How do you know when Splunk stops searching? Good for all Skill Levels | Products: Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Operations Manager, Splunk Technical Champion, Administrator | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Managing Splunk | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Tim Baldwin , Senior Splunk Implementation Engineer, Hurricane Labs

Tom Kopchak , Director of Technical Operations, Hurricane Labs

Splunk is now part of your critical infrastructure. Whether you’re using Splunk software for security alerting, business operations, or Operational Intelligence, any failure will have a significant impact on any or all of these areas. In this presentation, Tim and Tom will provide a deep-dive into techniques for effectively monitoring Splunk deployments of all varieties. Description

Superspeeding Transaction Monitoring with the kvtransaction Command Intermediate | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Security Analyst, Splunk Technical Champion, Data Scientist/Analyst | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Search Language | Other Topics: customSearchCommands Speakers Mika Borner , Management Consultant, LC Systems

Christoph Dittmann , Senior Consultant, LC Systems

Processing long-term transactions spanning over hours and days within millions of events is a complex challenge, and the built-in transaction and stats commands within Splunk software are sometimes not up to the task. Our customers often face perfomance issues tracking these kinds of transactions. We will describe the current challenges and our solution, which enables large scale transaction, process and service monitoring. Description

Internet of (Big Rolling) Things at DB Cargo’s European Rolling Stock: Increased Customer Satisfaction Through Higher Availability and Reliability Good for all Skill Levels | Industries: Travel & Transportation | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Architect, Business Manager, Splunk Technical Champion, Data Scientist/Analyst, Operations Manager | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: IoT Industrial Data | Other Topics: httpEventCollector, Getting Data In, Customer Success Story Speakers Marcus Goessl , Project Manager for TechLOK and Hybridization, DB Cargo AG

Asmus Hammer , Senior Account Manager, Consist Software Solutions GmbH

Mathias Sebastian Thomas , Head of Asset and Technology Strategy, DB Cargo AG

DB Cargo is Europe's leading provider of innovative transportation and logistics solutions. Next to energy efficiency and automation, digitization and IoT the main levers to DB Cargo’s asset strategy to optimize locomotive availability, its utilization leading towards more stable production and higher customer satisfaction. Learn how Splunk software is enabling DB Cargo to meet these goals with near-time fleet visibility to create smarter vehicles improve maintenance processes, and reduce unproductive downtime. Description

Indexer Clustering Internals, Scaling, and Performance Intermediate | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Administrator, Architect, Splunk Technical Champion | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Big Data Architecture | Other Topics: Big Data Architecture Speakers Da Xu , Senior Software Engineer, Splunk

Chloe Yeung , Software Engineer, Splunk

This session will discuss indexer clustering internals: inspecting what our cluster master and indexers are actively doing as well as explaining various configurations settings. We'll also discuss scaling out a large cluster and the bottlenecks that cluster experience. Finally, we'll give some of our internal performance testing numbers for large clusters! Description

Multi-tenant Architecture: Securing Splunk to Combat Snooping Users Intermediate | Industries: Higher Education | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Security Analyst, Splunk Technical Champion, Administrator, Architect | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Managing Splunk | Other Topics: Best Practices, Customer Success Story Speakers Daniel Daily , Splunk Administrator, Indiana University

Allen Tucker , Manager, HELPnet Technology Services, Indiana University

Do you have dozens of departments using Splunk software? Do you want to scope user access so that they only see information relevant to their job role? The Indiana University Splunk Team will discuss the security layers within the Splunk platform, the possible user errors that could circumvent the security, and data isolation best practices. Description

Using Data Anonymization Algorithms to Leverage Sensitive Data with Splunk Beginner | Industries: Travel & Transportation | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Administrator, Splunk Technical Champion, Architect, CIO, CTO, Security Analyst, Data Scientist/Analyst | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Managing Splunk | Other Topics: Machine Learning, Customer Success Story, Best Practices Speakers Markus Bonisch , General Manager, BMW AG

Marco Fischer , Head of Business Analytics, Robotron Datenbank-Software GmbH

Matthias Ilgen , Pre Sales Engineer, Robotron Datenbank-Software GmbH

The use of sensitive data is limited by operational compliance rules and legal regulations, but this data can still be valuable to your organizations. To use such data for analysis purposes, we need modern methods for anonymization to ensure compliance. In this session, we present a framework based on a Splunk main index, which can be used to generate anonymized data analysis views for different user groups and use cases. Description

Dashboard Wizardry Intermediate | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Splunk Technical Champion, Developer, Administrator, Data Scientist/Analyst | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Using Splunk Speakers Nicholas Filippi , Product Management, Splunk

Siegfried Puchbauer , Senior Software Engineer, Splunk

Splunk dashboards and forms provide a solid framework to quickly compose static content for showing and visualizing data from search results. Tapping into the full power of SimpleXML enables you to go beyond that and build rich interactions and workflows into your dashboards without resorting to code. In this session you'll learn how to take a rudimentary dashboard and advance it step by step to provide a rich and interactive user experience, covering hooks and building blocks available in SimpleXML, including new ones introduced in the latest versions of Splunk Enterprise. Description

Dashboards, Alerting, Reporting and Visualization - What’s New Intermediate | Industries: Technology | Products: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud | Role: Data Scientist/Analyst, Splunk Technical Champion, Operations Manager, CIO, Developer, Administrator, Business Manager | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Splunk Enterprise Whats New | Other Topics: customVisualizations, What's New?!, customAlertActions Speakers Nicholas Filippi , Product Management, Splunk

Michael Porath , Product Manager, Splunk

This session will walk through the latest features aimed at Splunk use cases for reporting and dashboards. Attendees will learn about visualization capabilities that help them create meaningful and actionable dashboards and reports. Specific examples and a live demo will showcase capabilities and reporting workflows. Description

What's New – Custom Visualizations Intermediate | Industries: Other | Products: Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Business Manager, CIO, Splunk Technical Champion, Administrator, Developer | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Splunk Enterprise Whats New | Other Topics: customVisualizations Speakers Michael Porath , Product Manager, Splunk

This session introduces the Custom Visualizations framework that expands the library of visualizations available to Splunk users. The session will go into depth about framework capabilities, and how to find, install, and use these visualizations. A live demo will demonstrate some of these visualizations in action. Description

Keeping the Junk Out of Splunk – Maximizing the Value of Your Splunk License and Being Prepared for Floods of Data. Beginner | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Administrator, Splunk Technical Champion | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Splunk Classics | Other Topics: Getting Data In, Best Practices Speakers Sandy Voellinger , Principal Consultant, Crypsis Group

In this session, we'll walk through some strategies you can use to improve the signal to noise ratio and focus on what is important to your business needs. We’ll also talk about strategies to help you manage a sudden burst of data indexing while maximizing the value of your Splunk license! Learn tips and tricks starting at the OS level, on tools like rsyslog, and find out how to filter at indexers and forwarders before the data hits the wire. Description

Solve Big Problems with Machine Learning Advanced | Industries: Other | Products: Splunk IT Service Intelligence, Splunk User Behavior Analytics, Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise, Other | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Other Topics: Machine Learning Speakers W. Julian Andre , Staff Sales Engineer, Splunk

Tom LaGatta , Staff Sales Engineer, Splunk

Sometimes problem-solving feels like fighting fires with no relief. Leverage machine learning to help solve the problem of problem solving. We will introduce general ML concepts & workflows, and guide you through the long slog of exploratory data analysis to figure out what relates to what. Then we'll walk you through how to develop a systematic architecture to leverage ML models and improve your team's problem-solving capabilities. We'll talk about big data architectures, how to fit models on historical data and apply them in real time. We will close with a demonstration of ML capabilities in Splunk. Description

Search Optimization Good for all Skill Levels | Industries: Technology | Products: Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Splunk Technical Champion, Data Scientist/Analyst, Administrator | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Search Language | Other Topics: What's New?!, Best Practices Speakers Alex James , Principal Product Manager, Splunk

Learn about ways that Splunk can optimize your searches and make them run faster. Get a peek under the covers to review the technology used to build these optimizations. Description

Using the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit to Create Your Own Custom Models Advanced | Industries: Other | Products: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud | Role: Operations Manager, Data Scientist/Analyst | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Data Science Machine Learning | Other Topics: Machine Learning, What's New?! Speakers Adam Oliner , Director of Engineering, Splunk

Manish Sainani , Principal Product Manager, Splunk

This session will introduce the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit and demonstrate the key features for guided model building without SPL. We’ll also review typical use cases and real-world customer examples of using the Toolkit to drive business results. Description

Splunk and Open Source Integrations with Spark, Solr, Hadoop and NoSQL Storage Advanced | Industries: Technology | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Big Data Architecture | Other Topics: Thought Leadership, Big Data Architecture, Platform extensibility Speakers Raanan Dagan , Staff Big Data Architect, Splunk

May Long , Big Data Architect, Splunk

Many Splunk customers enhance dashboards with data from Spark, Solr, Lucene, MongoDB, Cassandra, and HBase. In this session we will dive into the technical details of these integrations as well as discuss use cases like mobile, transaction, web analytics, and fraud. Description

Confidence in Conclusions: Leveraging Splunk for Data Driven Insights Beginner | Industries: Online Services, Technology, Media & Entertainment | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Data Scientist/Analyst | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Business Analytics | Other Topics: Customer Success Story Speakers David Uslan , Lead Data Analyst, ICF Technology

How deeply do you understand your product? How often do you use data derived conclusions to definitively answer important business questions? Learn the ways an industry leader in live adult video streaming uses Splunk to establish baselines for evaluating the success of iterative development cycles and quarterly goals. Description

Predicting Incidents with Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning on Splunk Advanced | Industries: Communications | Products: Other, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Data Scientist/Analyst, Security Analyst | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Data Science Machine Learning | Other Topics: Machine Learning, Customer Success Story Speakers Shin-ichiro Takahashi , Managing Director, NTT DOCOMO

This session will discuss how Japan's largest telecommunications company, NTT DOCOMO, has applied supervised and unsupervised machine learning technology alongside Splunk software and 3rd party solutions to create an advanced analytics security platform. This session will discuss how NTT DOCOMO has used this approach to detect cyber attacks and predict incidents. This is applicable for a variety of use cases across a range of industries. Description

SCADA and Splunk – Soul Mates Forever Good for all Skill Levels | Industries: Energy & Utilities | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Operations Manager, Security Analyst | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: IoT Industrial Data | Other Topics: Getting Data In, Customer Success Story, Platform extensibility Speakers Chris Duffey , SCADA Coordinator, Enterprise Product Partners L.P.

William Gage , Supervisor, SCADA Infrastructure and Cyber Security, Enterprise Product Partners L.P.

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are very complex and critical environments that are used every day by manufacturing, energy/utilities, oil & gas, and transportation companies to run their business. Some control HVAC systems, some control pipelines, and some control making chocolate candy. Many times the data produced by these systems cannot be correlated together easily. This can make seeing the large picture very challenging. Making things even more difficult is the sensitivity of the ICS environments. Traditional IT approaches to ICS or OT (operational technology) environments can lead to service disruptions and data loss. This easily leads to financial impacts that affect the company’s bottom line. So, how can you get the data that is already available, plus enrich your operations? Well, attend this presentation to find out ways to deploy Spunk into an ICS environment and help you become a “super star” in your organization. Description

How to Build a Solution from Scratch: A Case Study of Partner Engagement and Co-Development Intermediate | Industries: Healthcare | Products: Splunk Enterprise, Other | Role: CTO, Developer, Architect, CIO, Splunk Technical Champion, Business Manager, CISO | Track: Developing | Session Focus: Splunk As A Platform | Other Topics: App Ecosystem, Thought Leadership, Platform extensibility, Customer Success Story Speakers Vladimir Melnik , Senior Director of Strategy, Office of the CTO, Splunk

Igal Vainer , Senior Director, Head of Software and High-tech Practice, EPAM Systems

In this session, we will give you an overview of the Splunk Dev Ignite Program, including the benefits ISVs and SIs can receive from building solutions on the Splunk platform. We will take you on a co-development journey with one partner, EPAM Systems, who started from scratch. EPAM was able to build a compelling solution in the area of healthcare compliance in just under 3 months. We will then deep dive into the solution itself, technology behind it and lessons learned. “Insightful” is a real-time data analytics engine focused on clinical data (static or in transition). The solution adds business insight discovery capabilities for healthcare providers, insurance companies and business integrators without requiring heavy modeling and pre-building schemas upfront. Care costs and quality of care insights are just few examples. The engine utilizes advanced Splunk platform features for real time data monitoring and reporting, ad-hoc configurability, predictive analytics and unmatched performance and scalability. “Insightful” is yet another step in EPAM’s strategy of delivering flexible, domain specific, minimal implementation cycle solutions and accelerators to enterprise customers. Description

Extending SPL with Custom Search Commands and the Splunk SDK for Python Intermediate | Products: Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Data Scientist/Analyst, Splunk Technical Champion, Architect, Developer | Track: Developing | Session Focus: Splunk As A Platform | Other Topics: Best Practices, Getting Data In, Dev Tools, Platform extensibility Speakers Jacob Leverich , Director of Engineering, Splunk

Splunk's Search Processing Language, SPL, is both powerful and versatile. Nevertheless, some use cases exceed the capabilities of SPL. For these cases, SPL can be extended with "custom search commands". This talk covers implementation details of the custom search command feature, and teaches you how to build new commands using the Splunk SDK for Python. Description

Splunk App Lifecycle Management – With More Peace, Love and Rock-n-Roll! Intermediate | Products: Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Splunk Technical Champion, Architect, Administrator, Developer | Track: Developing | Session Focus: Splunk As A Platform | Other Topics: Platform extensibility, Development Best Practices, Dev Tools, What's New?! Speakers Cecelia Campbell , Software Engineer, Splunk

Grigori Melnik , Director, Product Management, Splunk

The Splunk platform is maturing and bringing new advanced app lifecycle capabilities, including app installation and uninstallation targeting specific workloads of your distributed deployments, dependency management, app well-formedness validation, and more! Whether you are an admin who wants to easily and reliably install and manage Splunk apps across your entire Splunk deployment from a single point, or a developer who wants to lower your development and maintenance costs, come to this session to learn about the new app model and start onboarding your apps! Description

Leveraging Splunk’s Ecosystem for Your Own Products Beginner | Products: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud | Role: CIO, Developer, Architect, Splunk Technical Champion, CTO, Business Manager, CISO | Track: Developing | Session Focus: Splunk As A Platform | Other Topics: Thought Leadership, Platform extensibility, Customer Success Story, App Ecosystem Speakers Michael Franke , Senior Director Product Management, SecureAuth Corporation

Luke Netto , Consulting Engineer, Splunk, GTRI

As the adoption of Splunk software increases, the demand for products leveraging Splunk’s ecosystem will also increase. When SecureAuth customers began asking to use Splunk software for their access control panel, the company enlisted GTRI to help create their first Splunkbase app. In this session GTRI and SecureAuth join together to discuss the value Splunk brought to SecureAuth. Description

STEP Up Your App Dev Game Good for all Skill Levels | Products: Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Developer, Architect | Track: Developing | Session Focus: Splunk As A Platform | Other Topics: What's New?!, Development Best Practices, Dev Tools, Logging Frameworks, Platform extensibility, Getting Data In, App Ecosystem Speakers Tedd Hellmann , Product Manager, Splunk

David Poncelow , Senior Software Engineer, Splunk

Want to build an amazing Splunk app but don't know where to start? Join us for an interactive tutorial on how to design, develop and deploy Splunk apps using reference apps and playbooks. We’ll focus on several key concepts including data ingestion, searching, data visualization, alerting, app testing, packaging and deployment. The participants will be the first ones to experience the updated Splunk Developer Guidance. The session will both challenge and inspire you! The session targets both novice and experienced Splunk app developers. Description

Fast Time to Extraordinary Value: Quickly Add Powerful Machine Learning to Your Splunk Apps and Dashboards with Splunk's New Machine Learning Toolkit Advanced | Products: Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Business Manager, Splunk Technical Champion, Architect, Security Analyst, Operations Manager, Developer, Data Scientist/Analyst, Administrator | Track: Developing | Session Focus: Splunk As A Platform | Other Topics: App Ecosystem, customSearchCommands, Machine Learning, Big Data Architecture, Platform extensibility, Dev Tools, Thought Leadership Speakers Mike Cormier , Managing Director, Concanon LLC

William Thackrey , Managing Director, Concanon LLC

Machine learning experts from Scianta Analytics chose Splunk's new Machine Learning Toolkit to accelerate time to market of their new Extreme Vigilance security app for Splunk. The Scianta dev team will discuss their decision to leverage the ML Toolkit, and will walk the audience through real-world ML use cases in the Splunk platform. Attendees will receive a free eval copy of Scianta Extreme Vigilance, a new app that uses advanced behavioral analytics to detect fraud, security threats and other anomalous behavior with Splunk. Description

Agency Chargeback Models to Enable Splunk Enterprise Deployments Good for all Skill Levels | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: CIO, Operations Manager, Splunk Technical Champion, Business Manager, Administrator | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Managing Splunk | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Adilson Jardim , AVP Sales Engineering, Public Sector, Splunk

Mike Wilson , Sales Engineer, Splunk

As many government agencies expand their Splunk use cases, they invariably need to find solutions to chargeback and cross-charging requirements. This session will review different options to understanding Splunk internal metrics for usage, capacity, IO and other resource consumption. Mapping these back to chargeback and G/L integration will provide a framework to enable agencies to define chargeback and utilization, further supporting Splunk Enterprise and cross-organizational adoption. Description

How to Extend Splunk with an AI Assistant for Pattern Recognition Intermediate | Products: Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Architect, Splunk Technical Champion, Data Scientist/Analyst, Developer | Track: Developing | Session Focus: Splunk As A Platform | Other Topics: Thought Leadership, Dev Tools, Platform extensibility, Getting Data In Speakers Greg Olsen , SVP of Products, Falkonry

This session will explain how powerful pattern recognition capabilities can be added to Splunk software through an easy to use add-on service. It will discuss how these capabilities are used with sensor, log and other forms of time series data to support diverse application needs including: predictive maintenance, IT Ops, APM, quality, and security applications. The session will include a live demonstration of a Splunk application that uses the embedded AI Assistant, and will show details of how this application was constructed. Description

Extending Splunk's REST API For Fun And Profit Advanced | Products: Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Architect, Developer | Track: Developing | Session Focus: Splunk As A Platform | Other Topics: Dev Tools, Platform extensibility, Best Practices, Development Best Practices Speakers James Ervin , Principal Engineer, Splunk

This developer-focused session will present an overview of the options available for extending Splunk's REST API with app-specific content. Topics to be explored include EAI REST handlers, management of custom configuration files, the new protocol for writing more performant "persistent" REST handlers, and debugging using common IDEs. Description

Scaling Security Incident Investigations with Interactive Event Graphs and Spark Intermediate | Industries: Energy & Utilities, Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Financial Services, Healthcare, Technology | Products: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud | Role: Splunk Technical Champion, Security Analyst, Data Scientist/Analyst, Architect, CTO, CISO, CIO, Business Manager | Track: Security / Compliance / Fraud | Session Focus: Threat Detection | Other Topics: customVisualizations, Platform extensibility, Big Data Architecture Speakers Leo Meyerovich , CEO, Graphistry, Inc.

Joshua Patterson , Principal Data Scientist, Accenture

How well we respond to an incident hinges upon our ability to investigate it. However, dashboards and manual search have long been our primary exploration interfaces. The result is that, when facing billions of different types of events from many sources, it is hard to gather the context, correlate all the hits, interpret the result, and iterate... and all without missing anything. This talk shares how Graphistry and Accenture Labs have been streamlining deep incident investigations for Splunk client data by enabling large-scale interactive event graphs. Description

Universal Forwarder Security: Don't Input More Than Data Into Your Splunk Environment Beginner | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Administrator, Security Analyst, Splunk Technical Champion, Architect | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Managing Splunk | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Matt Uebel , Security Engineer, Defense Point Security

Protect the most exposed part of your Splunk infrastructure, the universal forwarder. In this session I will cover UF hardening best practices to protect against the abuse and privilege escalation that potentially comes from the default settings. You will learn not only the risks, but will go home with automated solutions to secure your systems. Description

You Can’t Protect What You Can’t See: AWS Security Monitoring and Compliance Validation from Adobe Intermediate | Industries: Technology | Products: Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Security Analyst, Operations Manager | Track: Security / Compliance / Fraud | Session Focus: Cloud Strategies | Other Topics: Best Practices, Amazon Web Services, Customer Success Story Speakers Scott Pack , Senior Security Engineer, Adobe

Ensuring security and compliance across a globally distributed, large-scale AWS deployment requires a proper set of technologies. In this session, you will hear about the tooling and processes used at Adobe to perform security monitoring and ensure best practices across a huge fleet of AWS accounts. This session details a method using a combination of AWS services and Splunk TAs for collecting security data across hundreds of AWS accounts en masse. Description

What's New For Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Good for all Skill Levels | Industries: Other | Products: Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise | Role: CTO, Splunk Technical Champion, CIO, Business Manager, Architect, Administrator, Developer | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Splunk Enterprise Whats New | Other Topics: What's New?! Speakers Todd Untrecht , VP of Product Management, Splunk

In 2016 we have delivered two new releases loaded with features to make data analysis faster and easier, lower TCO, and extend the flexibility and value of the platform. This session will provide a brief overview of these latest features and help you choose which drill-down sessions to attend. Description

Worst Practices... and How to Fix Them Intermediate | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Splunk Technical Champion, Administrator, Architect | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Splunk Classics | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Jeff Champagne , Staff Architect, Splunk

We've all slowed down to get a glimpse of a car crash on the freeway or tuned in to hear about a celebrity scandal. This session will analyze the Splunk equivalent of a 16 car pile-up from an architecture and search workload management perspective. Come hear about real-life Splunk deployments that went bad and how you can avoid those same pitfalls. Description

Let Stats Sort Them Out: Building Complex Result Sets That Use Multiple Source Types Advanced | Industries: Other | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Administrator, Data Scientist/Analyst, Splunk Technical Champion | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Search Language | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Nick Mealy , CEO, Sideview, LLC

This talk covers the pitfalls and best practices for the tricky transition you make from running simple reports in Splunk software to complex reports that draw knowledge from disparate data sets. We'll walk through some simple reporting examples and show how to construct the report for core commands like eval and stats and avoid edge-case commands like append and join. Description

Best Practices for Developing Splunk Apps and Add-ons Intermediate | Products: Splunk IT Service Intelligence, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud | Role: Administrator, Architect, Splunk Technical Champion, Developer | Track: Developing | Session Focus: Splunk As A Platform | Other Topics: Development Best Practices, App Ecosystem, Best Practices, Getting Data In, Dev Tools, Platform extensibility, Logging Frameworks Speakers Jason Conger , Staff Solution Architect, Splunk

There are numerous ways to get data into Splunk software and create applications around the data. There is also a wealth of documentation on these topics. This session will guide you on various easy-to-implement best practices for both apps and add-ons. These best practices come from real-world field experience and will detail both the why and the how. Description

Jiffy Lube Quick Tune-up for Your Splunk Environment Intermediate | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Splunk Technical Champion, Administrator, Architect | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Splunk Classics | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Jeff Champagne , Staff Architect, Splunk

Sean Delaney , Principal Architect, Splunk

The odometer just hit 3,000 miles on your Splunk instance and you're ready for a tune-up. Come learn about some key items that will keep your deployment running at top speed. We'll teach you how to ensure data is being indexed quickly and efficiently, how to keep an eye on search performance, the Distributed Management Console, and more! Description

Best Practices for Deploying Splunk on Amazon Web Services Beginner | Products: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud | Role: Architect, Administrator, Operations Manager, Splunk Technical Champion | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Deploying Splunk | Other Topics: Best Practices, Amazon Web Services, Customer Success Story Speakers William Bartlett , Senior Sales Engineer, Splunk

Nathan Kwong , Senior Sales Engineer, Splunk

Simeon Yep , Director, Splunk

More companies are looking to use the AWS Cloud to deploy new applications, migrate existing workloads, and create hybrid clouds. The AWS Cloud is quickly becoming the new data center for many companies. In this discussion, we’ll share how to architect a highly available and resilient Splunk Enterprise on the AWS Cloud by leveraging best practices from both Splunk and AWS technologies. Description

Deploying Splunk Enterprise on Microsoft Azure Cloud Beginner | Industries: Online Services, Technology | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Operations Manager, Architect, Administrator, Splunk Technical Champion | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Deploying Splunk | Other Topics: Big Data Architecture, Customer Success Story, Best Practices Speakers Roy Arsan , Solutions Architect, Splunk

Pramit Gupta , Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Microsoft Azure has seen a hyper growth over recent years. This session will cover how to architect and deploy Splunk Enterprise on Azure by leveraging best practices from both Splunk and Azure IaaS. You'll also learn directly from Microsoft Office team, a Splunk customer, who will share operational learnings from deploying and scaling Splunk Enterprise to over 100TB/day on Microsoft Azure. Description

Making the Most of the Splunk Scheduler Beginner | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Splunk Technical Champion, Administrator, Data Scientist/Analyst | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Managing Splunk | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Paul Lucas , Principal Software Engineer, Splunk

The ability to generate reports on a periodic schedule is one of the core features of Splunk Enterprise. Scheduling many reports without having the necessary experience or expertise can lead to some getting skipped. That, in turn, can lead to having incomplete information upon which to take action. Learn the details of how the scheduler works, including new features (auto windows, priority increases) so that you can use your existing hardware resources to generate reports more effectively. Description

Building a Crystal Ball: Forecasting Future Values for Multi-Cyclic Time Series Metrics in Splunk Intermediate | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Administrator, Security Analyst, Splunk Technical Champion, Data Scientist/Analyst, Architect | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Using Splunk Speakers Michael Fisher , Monitoring and Operational Intelligence Team Lead, A Large Financial Firm

Forecasting daily transaction volume is one thing, but what do you do when you're asked to generate an alert if transaction volume doesn't look normal for any given 10-minute period during the day or night? How do you find "normal"? This session will present a method for quickly and efficiently generating multi-day forecast values with 10-minute resolution for multi-cyclic time series metrics in Splunk software. Description

Become a Regular Expressions Ninja and Unlock Your Splunk Potential Intermediate | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Data Scientist/Analyst, Security Analyst, Splunk Technical Champion, Administrator | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Using Splunk Speakers Gabriel Vasseur , Senior Cyber Security Analyst, Thales

You can't call yourself a true Splunk ninja if you don't have regular expressions under your belt. Come to this talk to demystify them and see their power demonstrated in Splunk use cases inspired by real-life examples. No previous knowledge required, especially if you don't mind a steep learning curve! Description

Integrating with Third-Party Tools using Splunk Alert Actions Advanced | Products: Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, Splunk IT Service Intelligence | Role: Administrator, Splunk Technical Champion, Architect, Developer | Track: Developing | Session Focus: Splunk As A Platform | Other Topics: Best Practices, What's New?!, Dev Tools, Platform extensibility, customAlertActions Speakers Nicholas Filippi , Product Management, Splunk

Siegfried Puchbauer , Senior Software Engineer, Splunk

Custom alert actions are a great way to take advantage of the modular Splunk web platform to initiate an action from Splunk, such as sending search details to a chat window or opening a trouble ticket. Much better than an alert script, the custom alert actions API provides access to a configuration UI, flexible alert-time variable injection, and more. This session will provide an in-depth look at the Splunk custom alert actions API. It will cover how and why to use these actions in Splunk software, as well as show how to build a simple action from scratch in Python. We will cover how to set up your build environment, package the alert action as an app, create a UI for user inputs, troubleshoot custom alert actions, and more. Description

Architecting Splunk for Epic Performance at Blizzard Entertainment Intermediate | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Splunk Technical Champion, Architect, Administrator | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Deploying Splunk | Other Topics: Customer Success Story, Best Practices Speakers Mason Morales , Sr. Security Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment

Want to level-up Splunk's performance at your organization? This in-depth technical session will teach you how Blizzard Entertainment built one of the world's fastest Splunk clusters. You will learn about specific configuration changes that yield massive performance gains, as well as how to identify bottlenecks and prevent performance problems down the road. Description

How to Scale: From _raw to tstats Intermediate | Products: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk IT Service Intelligence, Splunk Enterprise Security | Role: Architect, Administrator, Security Analyst, Data Scientist/Analyst, Splunk Technical Champion | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Search Language | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers David Veuve , Staff Security Strategist, Splunk

You know the use cases. You understand stats. You might strut through the halls of .conf2016 as an advanced SPLer. But you’ve heard a whisper on the wind, a next-level approach to building queries in Splunk software with upwards of 1000x performance improvements: tstats. tstats is the most powerful tool for taking your Splunk queries (of all kinds) to ludicrous speed, but there’s a learning curve. This talk will explain how and when to leverage acceleration for all kinds of use cases in a simple way, taking it from the highest echelons of SPL Ninjutsu and bringing it to everyone. Description

Onboard Your Data Faster Using the Splunk Add-on Builder Intermediate | Products: Splunk IT Service Intelligence, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Splunk Technical Champion, Administrator, Developer, Architect | Track: Developing | Session Focus: Splunk As A Platform | Other Topics: What's New?!, Dev Tools, Getting Data In, Best Practices, Logging Frameworks Speakers Elias Haddad , Sr. Product Manager, Splunk

Guodong Wang , Senior Software Engineer, Splunk

Sometimes you need to do work to gather your data, and once that data is collected, you may need it transformed into more useful formats and then mapped to data models for easier reporting. An add-on is a reusable Splunk component, much like an app, that helps to collect, transform, and normalize data feeds from specific sources in your Splunk environment. In this session, we’ll present an overview of the Splunk Add-on Builder and show you just how easy it can be to build powerful add-ons, often without writing any code. We’ll use a real-world example to demonstrate the UI-driven, step-by-step process, from data collection to validation. Highlights include automated code generation and field extraction, as well as Common Information Model mapping with the click of a button. Finally, we will show how the Add-on Builder validates your add-on for best practices. Description

User Hygiene: Gaining Greater Insight Into User Habits and Activity in Your Splunk Environment Beginner | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Splunk Technical Champion, Administrator, Operations Manager, Architect | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Managing Splunk | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Rupak Pandya , Technical Manager, Function1

Monitoring how users interact with the Splunk platform and understanding their tendencies when it comes to search and dashboard structure can provide great insight into the performance of your Splunk environment. Using the REST API and internal Splunk data, you can report on a variety of specific metrics. You can see how many searches are on a dashboard, how many post process or input searches are on a dashboard and how those searches are structured, how often dashboards or saved searches are used, etc. These types of metrics will allow you to keep your Splunk environment running cleanly and efficiently. Description

Puppet Enterprise and Splunk Platform: Improve Your Application Delivery Velocity Good for all Skill Levels | Industries: Travel & Transportation, Energy & Utilities, Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Retail, Public Sector, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Technology, Media & Entertainment, Financial Services, Higher Education, Non-Profit, Online Services | Products: Other, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud | Role: CTO | Track: IT Operations | Session Focus: DevOps Speakers Deepak Giridharagopal , CTO and Chief Architect, Puppet

Stela Udovicic , Senior Product Marketing Manager, Splunk

Automated configuration management and proactive monitoring are two DevOps practices that are even more powerful when combined. Automation gives you confidence that your services, middleware, and applications are running as expected, and monitoring provides fast feedback loops to help you diagnose and resolve issues faster. You can use Puppet to deploy and manage your Splunk infrastructure, and use Splunk platform to monitor the health of your Puppet infrastructure and correlate it with other elements of your build pipeline for faster application delivery. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how Puppet and Splunk are better together with two key integrations: ·Puppet Splunk module - Automate the installation and management of Splunk software and the Splunk Universal Forwarder to ensure that services maintain a running state. ·Puppet Enterprise App for Splunk - Analyze performance metrics for Puppet Enterprise services such as PuppetDB, Puppet Server, and console services ensure that the services are running correctly. The Puppet Enterprise App for Splunk helps you diagnose issues and solve problems faster, so you can deploy critical changes with confidence. Description

The Impossibles - A Story From a DevOps Team Beginner | Industries: Technology, Media & Entertainment, Manufacturing, Public Sector, Retail, Communications, Aerospace and Defense, Energy & Utilities, Travel & Transportation, Online Services, Non-Profit, Higher Education, Financial Services, Healthcare | Products: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud | Track: IT Operations | Session Focus: DevOps Speakers Brooke Gravitt , Chief Software Architect, VeriStor

Rashad Neloms , Practice Lead-DevOps, VeriStor

Asked to reduce 22 week delivery to 30 minutes: daunting! Allowing anyone to click the deploy button: outlandish! Getting development and operations to work together: insanity! However, some 5000 environment provisioning requests a week later, that is exactly what this agile/DevOps team did. Here's the story... Description

Biz-PMO-Dev-QA-Sec-Build-Stage-Ops-Biz: Shared Metrics as a Forcing Function for End-To-End Enterprise Collaboration Intermediate | Industries: Public Sector, Retail, Healthcare, Financial Services, Higher Education, Non-Profit, Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Travel & Transportation, Energy & Utilities, Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment, Technology, Online Services | Products: Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise | Track: IT Operations | Session Focus: DevOps Speakers Andi Mann , Chief Technology Advocate, Splunk

Especially in larger enterprises, DevOps doesn’t start with Dev or end with Ops. Many more teams are part of a ‘whole system’ view of application delivery. Unfortunately, they don’t always see eye-to-eye with each other – or even see each other at all! This session will focus on how sharing ‘metrics that matter’ can help drive alignment across a ‘systems view’ of application delivery that both engages and reflects the whole enterprise – including the PMO, development, QA, security, build engineering, operations, and others in IT; and perhaps even more importantly, key business stakeholders. Description

Splunks of War: Creating a Better Game Development Process Through Data Analytics Good for all Skill Levels | Industries: Other | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Track: IT Operations | Session Focus: DevOps Speakers Phil Cousins , Principal Software Engineer, The Coalition, Microsoft

Learn how the makers of Gears of War adopted Splunk software to take it from a simple integration for monitoring tools, to a multi-tiered deployment, covering everything from build server monitoring to an application created to improve the whole game development process. Discover how Splunk software was used to unify data gathered during the development of Gears of War 4 and how visualizing that data in new and exciting ways helped the team focus on what mattered, when it mattered. Description

Building a Smarter Strategy for Alarms with Machine Learning! Good for all Skill Levels | Industries: Technology, Communications | Products: Other, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Data Scientist/Analyst, Splunk Technical Champion, CIO, Business Manager | Track: Splunk for Operational Intelligence | Session Focus: Using Splunk | Other Topics: Machine Learning Speakers Matthew Modestino , Splunk Advisory Engineer, Splunk

Jason Rombough , Manager, Planning and Engineering, TELUS

In the world of assurance, detecting deviations in your KPI can be the difference between stoping an issue before it starts and suffering impact to customer experience. Splunk's machine learning (ML) capabilities can move your traditional alerting schemes to the next level of Operational Intelligence, customizing alerts that tell the real story about what is going on in your environment. No more war room bridges full of impact guesstimates and questions with no answers! Find out how Splunk's ML capabilities can help make you the hero of your next war room, or stop them from even happening at all! Description

Hunting Adversaries with Pictures - Splunk, OSINT and Visualization Intermediate | Industries: Public Sector, Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Healthcare, Financial Services, Technology, Energy & Utilities | Products: Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Security Analyst | Track: Security / Compliance / Fraud | Session Focus: Threat Detection | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Jake Babbin , Director of Threat Intelligence, The Crypsis Group

In today’s security operations centers, incident response teams and even hunt teams are drowning in ever growing volumes of data and are being tasked to identify and stop threats at faster and faster speeds. This presentation will provide you with working examples taken from real-world incidents and highlight some of the methods and newer visualizations available to the Splunk community. Description

Hunting the Known Unknowns: The Powershell Edition Advanced | Industries: Other | Products: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security | Role: Security Analyst | Track: Security / Compliance / Fraud | Session Focus: Threat Detection | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Steve Brant , Senior Security Strategist, Splunk

Ryan Kovar , Minister of the OODALoopers, Splunk

This year’s “Hunting” session will describe how to detect the malicious use of Powershell in your network. The talk will cover new ways to log PowerShell and also show how to find attacks like Mimikatz, PowerWare, and PowerSploit. Throughout this session we will show you how these attacks work and how to detect them using Splunk software with new PowerShell Splunk Enterprise Security content pack. Description

Conquering the IDS Alert Challenge with Splunk Intermediate | Industries: Financial Services | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Security Analyst | Track: Security / Compliance / Fraud | Session Focus: Threat Detection | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Brennan Lodge , Security Analyst, Bloomberg

This session will cover the onboarding of IDS signatures, breaking up signatures into categories, using a Splunk IDS dashboard and using statistical anomaly detection to make sense of benign and malicious IDS alerts. This implementation will help security analysts dig through the trenches of IDS alerts and provide a clearer context to cybersecurity events. Description

Advanced Techniques for Detecting Fraud Using Splunk Intermediate | Industries: Financial Services | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Security Analyst | Track: Security / Compliance / Fraud | Session Focus: Fraud | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Kirsty Phillips , Professional Services Consultant, Splunk

Jason Timlin , Engagement Manager, Professional Services, Splunk

Fraud is a constantly changing landscape, and a proactive investigation approach is essential to keep up with the changing behavior of those trying to stay ahead of the curve. As such, data needs to be investigated through proactive searches alongside analysis of historical patterns, peer group analysis and behavioral changes over time. The discovery phase will cover concepts such as the stats, where and lookup commands, as well as how to utilize the KV store - to demonstrate how Splunk software can be used for fraud detection and compliance. This will include rule-based behavior detection, geographical searches and anomalies and how this can all be translated into an entity score using the KV store. Description

Anomaly Hunting with Splunk Software Intermediate | Industries: Technology | Products: Splunk Enterprise Security | Role: Security Analyst | Track: Security / Compliance / Fraud | Session Focus: hunting | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Macy Cronkrite , Professional Services, Splunk

Anthony Tellez , Sr. Consultant - Public Sector, Splunk

Splunk has enabled big data on the security practitioner's desktop, but the security knowledge worker is not a data scientist by training. SOC engineers need easy-to-implement machine learning tools. Learn about existing machine learning toolkits available in the Splunk platform and how they can be applied to data exfiltration, port/traffic analysis security and advanced threat use cases. Description

Splunking the Endpoint: Hands On! Intermediate | Industries: Other | Products: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security | Role: Security Analyst | Track: Security / Compliance / Fraud | Session Focus: Threat Detection | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers James Brodsky , SE Manager, Southwest Majors, Splunk

Dimitri McKay , Jedi Master, Splunk

This is a hands-on session. Laptop required to participate! As a follow-up to the "Splunking the Endpoint" talk at .conf2015, come learn the latest techniques in use for endpoint monitoring with Splunk Enterprise. As part of our session, we will all log into some cloud-hosted systems and do some hunting for IOCs and malicious endpoint behavior, focusing on 2016’s most hyped InfoSec topic, Windows-based ransomware. Description

Detecting the Adversary Post-Compromise with Threat Models and Behavioral Analytics Advanced | Industries: Financial Services, Media & Entertainment, Public Sector, Aerospace and Defense, Energy & Utilities, Healthcare | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Security Analyst | Track: Security / Compliance / Fraud | Session Focus: Threat Detection | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Michael Kemmerer , Senior Cyber Security Engineer, MITRE Corporation

Revisiting the .conf2014 presentation titled: "Uncover Compromised Systems by Collecting Data From Existing Endpoint Solutions and Observing Patterns of Behaviors." The talk will focus on the ATT&CK framework, the soon to be released Cyber Analytic Repository (CAR) and updates to how we use Splunk for Endpoint Security. Description

Autonomous Threat Hunting with Niddel and Splunk Enterprise Security: Mars, Inc. Customer Case Study Intermediate | Industries: Aerospace and Defense, Travel & Transportation, Manufacturing, Non-Profit, Healthcare, Higher Education, Communications, Retail, Online Services, Public Sector, Energy & Utilities, Media & Entertainment, Technology, Financial Services | Products: Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise Security | Role: Security Analyst | Track: Security / Compliance / Fraud | Session Focus: Threat Detection | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Alex Pinto , Chief Data Scientist, Niddel

Gregory Poniatowski , Information Security Lead, Mars, Inc.

Threat hunting is now considered state-of-the-art for response, but it's nearly impossible without a dedicated team to investigate and sift through the log data. Join us in this session to see how Mars, Inc. integrated Niddel, the autonomous threat hunting system that mimics the skills of a well-trained analyst, with their Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise Security to supercharge their IR process. Description

Forwarder Management in Splunk Cloud Beginner | Products: Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Splunk Technical Champion, Administrator, CIO | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Deploying Splunk | Other Topics: Amazon Web Services, What's New?!, Best Practices Speakers Jeff Bernt , Software Engineer, Splunk Inc.

Patrick Ogdin , Product Manager, Splunk Inc.

Michael Papale , Principal Software Engineer, Splunk Inc.

Whether you are a first-time Splunk Cloud user or a seasoned veteran, you'll benefit from this session as we'll be discussing new additions to the Splunk Cloud interface that supports the management of forwarders. See how to get securely connected, create groups of Splunk forwarders, add forwarder data inputs, and have fine-grained control over Splunk forwarder settings. We'll touch on topics such as migration considerations, working with deployment queues, and auditing changes to forwarders sending data into Splunk Cloud. Description

I’m a Windows Girl, In a Red Hat World: Reducing the Splunk Learning Curve Beginner | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Administrator, Architect, Splunk Technical Champion | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Adopting Splunk Speakers Kelly Zimmerman , Splunk Admin, Indiana University

If you are a Windows admin, the learning curve of administering Splunk running on Red Hat can be extensive. Go beyond the graphical user interface (GUI) and explore Splunk under the hood by using the Linux command line. Get what you need to deploy your apps, understand how config files are written, deploy apps to your endpoints, and understand the DR benefits while never opening a single webpage. Jumpstart the learning curve. Description

Show the Board the Value of Your Incident Response Team – Detect a Live Attack With Splunk and Knock Their Socks Off! Intermediate | Industries: Financial Services | Products: Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Enterprise | Role: CISO, Security Analyst | Track: Security / Compliance / Fraud | Session Focus: Threat Detection | Other Topics: Best Practices, analyzingNetworkData, analyzingEndpointData, customVisualizations, attackScenarios Speakers Philip Mire , Senior Information Security Analyst, Capital Group

Erin Nichols , Senior Information Security Analyst, Capital Group

Charles Robertson-Adams , SIRT Manager, Capital Group

In this session the audience will learn an approach for showing the value of information security and the value and role of Splunk. We will demonstrate the high ROI achieved and help justify the investments in the security program and in Splunk solutions. The session will describe: how to create a demo network with a fictitious HR victim, and a remote hacker; how to set up Splunk solutions to detect each step of attack, including a dashboard that maps to the kill chain; what to consider when presenting technical material to the board; how to maximize the impact of the demonstration by making it “real”; how to take this conversation to the board; how we did it and our board's reaction to the brief and how (magically) we had board level excitement in Splunk afterwards. Description

Through the Security Looking Glass: Operationalizing Cloud Enterprise Security – an Adaptive Response Approach Intermediate | Industries: Public Sector, Energy & Utilities | Products: Splunk IT Service Intelligence, Splunk User Behavior Analytics, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud | Role: Security Analyst | Track: Security / Compliance / Fraud | Session Focus: Threat Detection | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Peter Hefley , Manager, Information Security, Republic Services

Nate Smalley , Staff Sales Engineer, Splunk

Have you struggled with how to take your information security engineering efforts and operationalize them for adaptive response? Has your security team tried to understand the security kill chain and how threat intelligence, APT identification, and behavioral analytics all interact with these steps to aid proactive response? Join Peter Hefley and Nate Smalley as we discuss their journey from engineering to operationalizing their security team with a focus on integration and adaptive response. Description

Exploring the Frameworks of Splunk Enterprise Security Beginner | Industries: Media & Entertainment, Higher Education, Communications, Energy & Utilities, Aerospace and Defense, Healthcare, Non-Profit, Technology, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Public Sector, Retail, Online Services, Travel & Transportation | Products: Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Administrator | Track: Security / Compliance / Fraud | Session Focus: Using Splunk | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Kyle Champlin , Senior Sales Engineer, Global Strategic Alliances, Splunk

David Herrald , Security Architect, Splunk

You might know Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) as a comprehensive analytics-driven SIEM platform that can power your security operations team from end to end, but did you know that ES is actually made up of distinct frameworks that can each be leveraged independently to meet specific security use cases? In this session we will cover the major frameworks of ES including: asset and identity correlation framework, notable event framework, threat intelligence framework, and the risk analysis framework. Technical details, real-world examples, and customer anecdotes will be provided. Description

PowerShell Power Hell: Hunting for Malicious Use of PowerShell with Splunk Intermediate | Industries: Other | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Security Analyst | Track: Security / Compliance / Fraud | Session Focus: Threat Detection | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Ryan Chapman , Computer Incident Response Analyst, Bechtel

Lisa Tawfall , Security Unicorn, Bechtel

Bechtel Corporation is the largest construction and civil engineering company in the U.S., which makes it a target-rich environment. We have noticed a trend involving use of malicious PowerShell within our environment. This talk reviews enabling PowerShell logging and parsing, covers a few interesting PowerShell incidents we had recently, and discusses how we used Splunk software in these scenarios. Description

Maturing Workday’s SOC with Splunk Beginner | Industries: Other | Products: Splunk Enterprise Security | Role: Security Analyst | Track: Security / Compliance / Fraud | Session Focus: Threat Detection | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Jordan Perks , Manager, Security, Workday

Ravi Shah , Security Analyst, Workday

How Workday leverages Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security as its tier-0 security monitoring tool in order to build a mature, robust Security Operations Center (SOC) through cross-functional teams, aggressive training and a robust feedback and documentation loop. Description

Speeding Up Incident Response Using Splunk Intermediate | Industries: Online Services, Technology, Communications | Products: Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Security Analyst | Track: Security / Compliance / Fraud | Session Focus: Using Splunk | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Pal Mathisen , Senior Solutions Architect, Sopra Steria

Halvar Myrmo , Senior Security Engineer, Telenor

Working as a security practitioner in the CERT of a large enterprise provides a unique set of challenges. Keeping track of ever-changing networks and systems is a nearly impossible task. We will show and release code for mapping assets, identities and other key information related to security events, using a fully custom approach in order to improve the CERT's efficiency and capacity. Description

Live Demonstration: Bypassing Application Whitelisting and Stealing Your Data Beginner | Industries: Public Sector | Products: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security | Role: Administrator, Security Analyst | Track: Security / Compliance / Fraud | Session Focus: Threat Detection | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Andrew Goodall , Account Manager, Splunk

Domenico Perre , Sales Engineer, Splunk

How confident are you that application whitelisting stops malicious activity on your endpoints? Are you curious to see how attackers bypass controls like application whitelisting, establish persistence, and exfiltrate data in enterprise networks? Live demonstration: watch an attack from the perspective of an attacker, as we identify and respond to each stage of the attack with Splunk solutions. Description

End-to-End Splunk Use Case Development: Requirements, Testing, and Execution Intermediate | Industries: Public Sector, Retail, Healthcare, Financial Services, Higher Education, Non-Profit, Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Travel & Transportation, Energy & Utilities, Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment, Technology, Online Services | Products: Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Enterprise | Role: Security Analyst | Track: Security / Compliance / Fraud | Session Focus: Threat Detection | Other Topics: Best Practices Speakers Robert Boyce , Managing Director, Accenture

John Rubey , Senior Security Analyst, Accenture

How do I know my use case works before an incident occurs? When developing use cases, we look for anomalous or prohibited behavior, which may not occur without a breach. In this session, we discuss our approach to identifying use case data requirements, verifying that the use case detects the targeted behavior, and transitioning new use cases to operations teams for execution. Description

Search Head Clustering – Basics to Best Practices Beginner | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Splunk Technical Champion, Administrator, Architect | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Managing Splunk | Other Topics: Big Data Architecture, Best Practices Speakers Manu Jose , Senior Software Engineer, Splunk

Yuan Xu , Senior Software Engineer, Splunk

This session will provide an overview of search head clustering and include best practices for managing a search head cluster. Search head clustering is Splunk's horizontal scaling solution for searches. As enterprises on-board more users onto Splunk deployments and the need for dashboards and alerts goes up, search heads must be scaled out to manage the search load. Search head clustering solves this problem by providing a highly available and scalable search. Description

Beyond “Regular” Regular Expressions Beginner | Products: Splunk Enterprise | Role: Splunk Technical Champion, Data Scientist/Analyst, Administrator, Security Analyst | Track: Splunk Foundations | Session Focus: Using Splunk | Other Topics: Getting Data In Speakers Cary Petterborg , Senior Monitoring Engineer, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Splunk's field extraction tool is very handy. But what if you have some odd data, or mixed data types in fields, or more than one field that looks like another, or a Twitter feed with just too many date fields to properly extract the true timestamp? You may have to dig into regular expressions. Perhaps even field extraction doesn't work properly so you have to configure delimiters instead of field extraction. Using applied real-world examples, learn when to use the field extractor tool, third party tools, how to create your own advanced regular expressions, and how to extract fields using the rex command. Description

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