Stay Connected: Your Guide to November Tech Talks, Office Hours, and Webinars!

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🍂 Fall into November with a fresh lineup of Community Office Hours, Tech Talks, and Webinars we’ve curated just for you! Check out all the ways to learn, connect, and grow this month! 🌟🍁 

What are Community Office Hours?

Community Office Hours is an interactive 60-minute Zoom series where participants can ask questions and engage with technical Splunk experts on various topics. Whether you're just starting your journey with Splunk or looking for best practices to take your deployment to the next level, Community Office Hours provides a safe and open environment for you to get help.

If you have an issue you can’t seem to resolve, have a question you’re eager to get answered by Splunk experts, are exploring new use cases, or just want to sit and listen in, Community Office Hours is for you!

What are Tech Talks?

Tech Talks are designed to accelerate adoption and ensure your success. In these engaging 60-minute sessions, we dive deep into best practices, share valuable insights, and explore additional use cases to expand your knowledge and proficiency with our products.

Whether you're looking to optimize your workflows, discover new functionalities, or troubleshoot challenges, Tech Talks is your go-to resource.

SECURITY

Tech Talk | Splunk and Fraud	November 13, 2024 at 11am PT	Join us for an insightful webinar where we delve into the innovative approaches to solving fraud using the Splunk suite of products. This session is designed for security experts and IT leaders from financial services organizations or any other industry that are looking to enhance their fraud detection and prevention strategies.
Office Hours | Security: Enterprise Security	November 13, 2024 at 1pm PT	This is your opportunity to ask questions related to your specific Splunk Enterprise Security What are some tips and tricks for getting started and becoming an expert in ES? What are the best practices for implementing threat detection, and what is the latest security content from the threat research team? How to implement use cases like RBA, incident management, and threat hunting? What to expect in Enterprise Security 8.0, including the Mission Control interface and SOAR integration? Which Splunkbase apps and add-ons are recommended for ES use cases? Anything else you’d like to learn!
Tech Talk | Mastering Threat Hunting	November 18, 2024 at 11am PT	Join this Tech Talk to learn: Approaches to Threat Detection and Threat Hunting. How to identify potentially malicious activity in your own logs that you may have otherwise missed. How to mature your SOC practices.
Tech Talk | Introducing Splunk Enterprise Security 8.0	November 20, 2024 at 11am PT	Tune in to learn about: Complete unified TDIR workflows with new, native integration with Splunk SOAR. New modern aggregation and triage capabilities. Enhanced detections to find and remediate threats, faster. Simplified terminology across TDIR workflows, which aligns to Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF), making it easy for your security team to understand exactly what they are working on.

OBSERVABILITY

Tech Talk | Building a Self-Service and Scalable Observability Practice	November 14, 2024 at 11am PT	Tune in to find out how to: Design a Self-Serve Observability platform. Take full advantage of OpenTelemetry (OTel) to increase velocity and reduce technical debt. Foster a culture of Observability in your organization. Automate data instrumentation with OpenTelemetry (OTel). Safeguard your data with advanced RBAC capabilities Measure and manage tenant usage and costs. efficiently while scaling using access tokens, Metrics Pipeline Management, and Archived Metrics. Automate monitoring safely with code-level observability.
Tech Talk | Splunk with AppDynamics - Meet the New IT (and Engineering) Couple	November 20, 2024 at 10am PT	Join us in this session to learn all about AppDynamics, its key capabilities and advantages, how it fits within the Splunk portfolio, and our new integrations for a full-stack observability experience. An overview of AppDynamics and the use cases it is best suited for. How AppDynamics and Splunk are connected today and will be tomorrow. A demo of AppDynamics, Log Observer Connect for AppDynamics, and the new integrated experience.

PLATFORM

Tech Talk | Splunk Federated Analytics for Amazon Security Lake	November 21, 2024 at 11am PT	Join our session to see the technical components and configuration of Splunk Federated Analytics for Amazon Security Lake. Define strategies to handle explosive data growth, both in velocity and variety of security data. Evaluate the complexities of storage and access to security data over time. Analyze data from multiple sources to significantly reduce MTTR. Explore Splunk Federated Analytics for Amazon Security Lake as an elegant solution for managing operational analytics and compliance data together.
Office Hours | Splunk Search & New SPL Innovations	November 21, 2024 at 1pm PT	In this special session, Splunk experts kick us off with a round-robin to showcase the latest innovations in search, such as the Splunk AI Assistant for SPL app, Federated Search for Amazon S3, and SPL2. What can I ask in this AMA? How can I reduce my skipped searches? How do I translate my question into SPL? How can I optimize this search query so it runs faster? How do I set up federated search for Splunk? What are the advantages of using federated search for Amazon S3? How do I convert my SPL into SPL2? My search is not displaying properly, how do I fix it? How do I create an alert/visualization/dashboard from my search?