A new Splunk study has found that 66 percent of public sector organizations face difficulties in using data to mitigate cybersecurity threats and recover from cyber incidents and 52 percent of such organizations struggle to leverage data to inform decisions related to cybersecurity. Splunk said Wednesday 56 percent of respondents in the public sector reported […] More

New challenges and opportunities are emerging as government and industry organizations migrate to the cloud and step into the next era of digital transformation. From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, much of this migration and modernization has been accelerated, and now, GovCon leaders are taking a closer look at how to better protect their […] More

Bill Rowan, vice president of public sector at Splunk and a three-time Wash100 awardee, said Department of Defense customers have completed fielding the company’s cloud service offering to handle sensitive data at Impact Level 5. The company secured the Defense Security Information Systems Agency’s IL5 provisional authorization in 2021 that allows Splunk Cloud Platform to […] More

Tiffanny Gates, senior managing director and National Security Portfolio lead for Accenture Federal Services and three-time Wash100 Award winner, moderated a full expert panel on Wednesday during Baird’s 2021 Government & Defense Conference. Gates hosted the expert panel to discuss the challenges that the intelligence community faces as the U.S. continues to work to adapt to the […] More

Splunk will offer discounted products and services to help federal agencies comply with President Joe Biden’s executive order on cyber response. The company said Tuesday its Government Logging Modernization Program will provide federal agency customers with cloud packages, lower-cost storage options, exclusive programmatic pricing, security expertise and cloud migration assessments. Cloud packages and migration services […] More

Orca Security has received $550 million in its extended round of Series C financing led by Singapore-based investment company Temasek and announced strategic investments from Science Applications International Corp. and Splunk Ventures. Orca said Tuesday it will use the investments to broaden its global presence and expand the delivery of cloud security platforms to government […] More

Splunk has received provisional authorization for its cloud technology offering to host Department of Defense data at a high-level security baseline. The Defense Security Information Systems Agency’s Impact Level 5 accreditation allows Splunk Cloud Platform to handle controlled unclassified information for government customers and signifies that the platform is compliant with security and compliance standards […] More

Pamela Fusco brings her over three-decade of global enterprise security experience in her new role as chief information security officer at Splunk where she will be responsible for the software company’s overall information security infrastructure. Fusco will collaborate with the Splunk team on implementing cloud-based security strategy and taking data-driven approach to help customers strengthen […] More

Teresa Carlson, chief growth officer of Splunk and a six-time Wash100 awardee, said federal government customers are transitioning towards services-based cloud contracts that are managed by commercial data centers, the Washington Business Journal reported Tuesday. “You look at the new models, governments are not always paying for what they are building [to establish cloud services]. […] More

Juliana Vida, a U.S. Navy veteran, has taken on the roles of group vice president and chief strategy adviser at Spunk where she most recently served as chief technical adviser for the software company's public sector business.

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Carahsoft Technology has made Splunk’s data analytics platform on Microsoft’s Azure cloud available to public sector customers through its multiple contract vehicles. Splunk Enterprise Transformation with Azure is meant to help agencies collect, store and analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured data to detect security threats and generate insights from data to speed up the delivery of new services.

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The Department of Defense has designated its blanket purchase agreement with Carahsoft Technology for Splunk offerings as a potential 10-year, $833 million Core Enterprise Technology Agreement in line with the Pentagon’s information technology procurement initiative.

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