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Less context-switching, more building: Keep engineers in their zone of excellence

Too many engineering teams aren’t set up for success (or satisfaction). The emphasis on full-stack hiring means engineers are pressured to extend outside of the areas they do their best work—their zones of excellence. Backend engineers in particular feel the pain of keeping up with frameworks, managing frontend complexity, and context switching between backend and […]

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Business Enablement for Unified CIAM: Not all CIAM is Created Equal

Customer identity is no longer just a login—it’s a business enabler. This North American study from Datos Insights reveals how leading financial institutions are transforming CIAM from a technical platform into a strategic driver of fraud reduction, secure open banking, and measurable operational efficiency. Discover how innovative CIAM solutions are evolving into unified business enablement […]

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Customer identity modernization in financial services: the key to securing future agility

Customer experience expectations are not just changing — they’re accelerating. Consumers expect even “traditional” finance organizations to deliver the same level of innovative offerings as those born in the cloud. For traditional finance organizations, not moving fast enough could mean fading away with their aging customer base. Get the guide to the right cloud modernization […]

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Transforming retail experiences in the digital age

As e-commerce and modern retail continue to evolve, managing digital identities has transformed from a back-end utility into a critical strategic function. Today’s consumers are highly selective, using multiple channels—including websites, mobile apps, social media, and physical storefronts—to complete a single purchase. To survive in a crowded market and foster lasting consumer loyalty, retailers must […]

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Accelerating AI in retail: building identity for agent-driven experiences

AI has entered a new era of “agentic commerce” in retail, where autonomous AI agents increasingly act on behalf of customers and employees to execute data queries and financial transactions. However, traditional security architectures struggle to manage these non-human entities at machine speed, creating an “identity gap” that exposes retailers to data leaks and engineering […]

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Top 50 Cybersecurity Threats

Today’s most damaging breaches don’t start with malware alerts: They start with misconfigured identities, exposed APIs, and AI-assisted attacks that move faster than ever. That’s why we created Top 50 Cybersecurity Threats: a definitive guide to the threats that matter now — and how they unfold in modern, hybrid environments. Download the latest edition to […]

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Rethinking Detection Engineering: A Practical, Threat-Informed Path Forward for Modern Security Teams

The threat landscape is accelerating, with defenders battling expanding data, attack surfaces, and complexity. Yet, maintenance remains the biggest challenge in detection engineering. This SANS report explores proven frameworks, human collaboration, and automation to help you build more efficient, maintainable, and future-ready detection programs. • Discover why maintenance is the main obstacle in modern detection […]

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Top Cybersecurity Threat Detections With Splunk and MITRE ATT&CK

Now more than ever, detecting the latest attack techniques right in Splunk Enterprise Security, the marketleading SIEM, is a critical capability. This updated guide reflects significant changes in the threat landscape since October 2022, including:• The addition of ESXi as a platform in ATT&CK Enterprise v17 (April 2025).• New techniques for AI security and detection.• […]

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Bluenomicon: The Network Defender’s Compendium

Splunk’s security research team assembled a network of security luminaries to contribute personal essays to Bluenomicon: The Network Defender’s Compendium. Bluenomicon provides readers with cybersecurity leadership strategies, practical guidance for incident investigation and response, and fun cybersecurity anecdotes from a blueteam perspective. Download your free copy of Bluenomicon today, and discover a myriad of tools, […]

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