Book Review: Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python
When I was in college, I used Al Sweigart’s Automate the Boring Stuff to give myself a crash course in Python. For an inexperienced programmer like me at the time, I found it to be very helpful in getting me to think outside of the C++ box that my coursework ... Read More
Using Stats in Splunk Part 2: Seasonality
Seasonality, which states predictable variations in data will occur over specific time periods, is one the most important concepts in statistical analysis of time series data in Splunk. For example, it's expected that you'd see more data logged during business hours, and less during off-hour times. These variations can throw ... Read More
Using Stats in Splunk Part 1: Basic Anomaly Detection
One of the most powerful uses of Splunk rests in its ability to take large amounts of data and pick out outliers in the data. For some events this can be done simply, where the highest values can be picked out via commands like rare and top. However, more subtle ... Read More
A Day in the Life of a Splunk SearchDev Team Member
Introduction The SearchDev (Search and Development) team makes Hurricane Labs unique. Our Splunk admin team and our SOC team should look familiar to most IT professionals; our admin team helps get your data in and your environment stable, and our SOC team investigates individual security events and helps create an ... Read More
