Name: Smarter Data, Stronger SOC: Key Findings from a Recent Study on Data Management
Start: 2025-12-31T07:28:00Z
End: 2025-12-31T07:28:44.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Splunk is helping to build a safer and more resilient digital world by equipping customers with the unified security and observability platform they need to keep their organization securely up and running — no matter what digital disruptions come their way.

Unpack the four key themes of Critical Infrastructure Security Month
Join Sarah Sloan, Head of Cybersecurity Policy, APAC, for a special edition of the Public Sector Pulse: Cyber and Tech webinar as we mark Critical Infrastructure Security Month—a nationwide initiative dedicated to raising awareness and strengthening Australia’s commitment to keeping our critical infrastructure secure and resilient.

We are honoured to welcome Hamish Hansford, Head of National Security, Department of Home Affairs, as our distinguished guest. Hamish was appointed Head of National Security on 17 July 2025, overseeing the integration of national security efforts across Home Affairs, while also serving as the Commonwealth Counter-Terrorism Coordinator and National Counter Foreign Interference Coordinator. Previously, he was Deputy Secretary of the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Group (2023–2025), and the inaugural Head of the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Centre (a role he held from 1 September 2021). He has held several senior leadership roles across national security, cyber policy, and emergency coordination, and has served in various intelligence and policy roles across multiple Australian government departments and agencies.

In this webinar, Hamish will help us unpack the four key themes of Critical Infrastructure Security Month:
- Supply Chain Security: Understanding and addressing vulnerabilities in our interconnected supply networks
- Enabling Services: Securing essential services that underpin our daily lives and economic prosperity
- Cyber Threat Landscape: Exploring current and emerging cyber threats impacting critical infrastructure
- Personal and Physical Security: Reinforcing the importance of both digital and physical security for all Australians
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from one of Australia’s foremost leaders in cyber and critical infrastructure security. Together, let’s reaffirm our shared responsibility in safeguarding Australia’s essential systems.

Public Sector Pulse: Cyber and Tech

Observability today goes beyond monitoring; it’s about linking technology performance to business outcomes in an AI-driven world. In this webinar, we’ll show you how Splunk’s agentic, AI-powered observability delivers actionable insights across your three-tier applications. You’ll see how several capabilities help boost visibility across the entire estate in-context of users and business objectives, automate detection and guided troubleshooting with embedded AI, and ensure the safety, quality, cost, and performance of AI agents and infrastructure. Discover how Splunk can simplify operations, speed issue resolution, and drive measurable business impact.

In this session, you will learn:
- How Splunk’s agentic, AI-powered observability ties business context to telemetry, turning insights into improved reliability and reduced toil
- How AI-powered automation enables zero-configuration detection and guided troubleshooting for faster problem resolution
- How to monitor the quality, security, cost, and performance of the AI application stack, from agents and large language models (LLMs) to the underlying infrastructure
- How to simplify and proactively troubleshoot applications and databases using observability insights to reduce risk and operational overhead

Agentic, AI-powered Observability: Simplifying Operations & Faster Resolution

Is your IT team overwhelmed by endless alerts? Do you wish you could quickly group related alerts without spending hours manually configuring correlations? You’re in luck.

Join us for a deep dive into Event IQ, the latest innovation in Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI). Powered by AI, Event IQ automates event correlation, reduces alert noise, and helps your team focus on what matters most.

In this session, we’ll walk through real-world scenarios, show you how to get started with Event IQ, and share best practices for tuning algorithms and setting up automated workflows. Whether you’re new to ITSI or looking to unlock more value from your monitoring tools, you’ll see how AI-driven event management can streamline operations and boost service reliability.

In this session you will learn:
- The challenges of alert overload and why traditional approaches often fall short
- How Event IQ uses machine learning to automate event correlation
- Step-by-step guidance to set up and use Event IQ in your environment
- Real-world examples and actionable best practices
- Answers to your questions from Splunk experts

Intelligent Event Management with Splunk ITSI: Harnessing AI and Event IQ

Today’s cybersecurity landscape requires practitioners who can spot threats that slip past automated tools. But getting started with threat hunting isn’t always straightforward—there are many techniques, tools, and paths to consider.

Join us for a webinar as we introduce The Threat Hunter’s Cookbook, Splunk’s new practical guide designed specifically for security teams. Written by Splunk experts and grounded in the PEAK Threat Hunting Framework, this resource provides step-by-step instructions and dozens of pre-built Splunk SPL queries (“recipes”) to help you discover new threats, investigate suspicious activity, and develop stronger detection strategies.

If you’re a hands-on practitioner looking to sharpen your threat hunting skills, this session is for you.

In this webinar, you’ll:
- Get a practical overview of core threat hunting fundamentals and how The Threat Hunter’s Cookbook can guide your approach
- Learn how to use ready-made “recipes” to investigate real-world threats with Splunk’s Search Processing Language (SPL)
- See real-world examples and workflows from the Splunk experts who wrote the book

The Threat Hunter’s Cookbook: Techniques and Queries for Security Teams

A New GenAI-Powered Experience - A new wave of observability is coming.

The accumulation of monitoring tools combined with multi-cloud operating models promise end-to-end visibility but instead create confusion and despair. Now, instead of focusing on delivering cool software, engineers deal with time-consuming investigations, excessive uncertainty, and underwhelming tech stack performance.

Enter AI Assistant in Splunk Observability Cloud, a new GenAI-powered experience that helps engineering teams easily take on observability tasks by asking questions about their environment using natural language. From root cause analysis to troubleshooting and dashboarding, AI Assistant empowers every engineer to accelerate their investigations by unlocking key insights, turning them into digestible concepts, and simplifying workflows.

Join this webinar presented by Splunk’s Product Manager Umang Agarwal and come listen to Van Wolfe, VP of Platform Engineering at Repay, talk about his experience with the AI Assistant.

In this webinar you will learn about:
Splunk Observability Cloud’s new AI Assistant
- Faster your mean time to detect, investigate, and respond to issues with GenAI
- Streamlined day-to-day monitoring tasks using natural language processing
- A real-life customer example with Repay

Introducing AI Assistant in Splunk Observability Cloud A New GenAI-Powered Experience

Join us for a Splunk exclusive webinar as we unpack the findings from our latest State of Security 2025 report. Whether you're a cybersecurity leader, IT professional, or innovation strategist, this session will offer insights into key trends and strategies organizations can take to be more resilient and stay ahead of evolving threats with a future-ready approach to defense.

Cybersecurity is no longer just about reacting — it's about anticipating. Today’s SOCs face mounting challenges: disconnected tools, alert fatigue, skills gaps, and increasing pressure to prove ROI. At the same time, forward-thinking teams are embracing AI, automation, and detection as code to accelerate response, streamline operations, and unify defenses across their organization.

Organizations looking to strengthen their security posture must focus on smarter data practices, closing capability gaps, and embracing technologies that enable agility and collaboration. The State of Security 2025 report provides a roadmap to help teams shift from overwhelmed to optimized, while reducing risk and enhancing resilience.

Join Splunk security experts as they break down the most impactful trends from the report and share actionable strategies to transform your SOC. This is your opportunity to rethink what's possible in cybersecurity — and prepare for what's next.

Discover key insights from Splunk’s latest State of Security 2025 report
- Gain a greater understanding of Organisations key challenges and priorities within the APAC region
- Learn how AI and automation are transforming modern SOC operations
- Hear about key actionable strategies that organisations can embrace and apply within their own organization

State of Security 2025 - Rewriting the Rules: Security Trends Shaping APAC

Pizza Hut's Story of a Successful Migration for Greater Reliability & Resilience

Many organizations are struggling with observability solutions that promise a lot but deliver little - leading to high costs, incomplete insights, and slower innovation. Instead of driving digital transformation, organizations find themselves bogged down by unexpected overages and fragmented tools, and siloed teams.

But a better way to observability is here.

Splunk Observability is designed to meet customer needs for a unified, flexible observability solution and evolve with them as they scale. In this webinar, you’ll hear firsthand from the Pizza Hut team who made the switch to Splunk Observability, transforming their digital strategy to achieve greater reliability, resilience, and business impact.

Anatomy of a Successful Migration with Pizza Hut

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to reduce your monitoring costs and complexity by archiving low tier and dropping unused data.

Data volumes can easily explode in today’s digital landscape. This can result in additional barriers and noise to unlocking key insights from your data, and it can mean unsustainable costs within your monitoring and observability platforms.

Not all data is equal, and Splunk has introduced new capabilities to help manage the different tiers of data within your environment. With Metrics Pipeline Management, and Metrics Usage Analytics, you can easily identify which data is infrequently or never accessed, and configure the right pipelines to route it to the right destination.

In this webinar Splunk Observability Strategist Koray Harman, joined by a very special guest Atlassian Principal Software Engineer, Matt Ponsford, will discuss how metric archival can be fully utilised by organisations to make an impact to monitoring costs and efficiencies, capabilities Splunk has introduced to make this simple, and some real world examples, learnings and best practices for you to get started today.

Mission Archivable With Splunk & Atlassian

AI is shifting from novelty to necessity, all eyes are on risk when it comes to regulatory compliance, and the need for end-to-end visibility across constantly growing digital portfolios is here to stay.

Discover how to enhance resilience, reduce risk, and create lasting business value with actionable insights tailored to your digital resilience journey.

You will learn:
- How technology leaders can balance risk and opportunity for a resilient future
- How to take a practical approach to unified digital resilience
- How to accelerate digital resilience with AI

Leadership Essentials for Resilience - Balancing Risks and Measures

Open banking is transforming the financial landscape, offering significant advantages for consumers, businesses, and banks alike. Enabling secure sharing of financial data between institutions is more important than ever, as is understanding regulatory drivers, the impact of non-compliance, and best practices for enhancing collaboration and innovation. This not only empowers consumers but also drives industry growth, fosters trust, and strengthens market competitiveness.

Organizations can position themselves for success by adopting open banking frameworks and leveraging cutting-edge technology as part of a culture of innovation. Identifying and prioritizing customer needs, developing robust API ecosystems, and continuously monitoring and securing data required detailed and context rich insights into your environment.

Splunk Financial Services and Observability experts, Harry Chichadjian and Koray Harman, share their thoughts on how to excel in the era of open banking. During this session, you will gain deeper insights into the industry landscape, requirements for implementing open banking, and risk mitigation strategies.

- Explore how open banking is transforming the financial services industry
- Learn about secure financial data sharing and its regulatory importance
- Gain insights from Splunk experts on navigating open banking challenges
- Discover strategies for maintaining robust APIs and enhancing collaboration between engineering teams

Join us on On-Demand for a Splunk exclusive webinar that dives into the transformative world of open banking. Whether you're a financial services professional, a tech enthusiast, or a curious consumer, this session will provide valuable insights into the future of banking. Don't miss your chance to stay ahead of the curve in a rapidly evolving industry.

Connecting the Dots: APIs, Legislation, and the Open Banking Ecosystem

As data volumes surge and costs climb, Security Operations Centers (SOCs) face mounting pressure to maintain visibility, reduce complexity, and stay compliant.

Join us for a webinar where we’ll share key findings from a new double-blind study commissioned by Cisco, revealing how organizations are managing security data today—and the challenges they’re facing. From gaps between forecasted and actual data costs to evolving cloud storage preferences and ingestion hurdles, this research uncovers practical insights to help you build a more efficient and effective data management approach.

Smarter Data, Stronger SOC: Key Findings from a Recent Study on Data Management

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