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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Teresa Carlson, who has led Amazon Web Services' global public sector operations for more than a decade, will officially join Splunk on April 19 as president and chief growth officer. In her new roles, Carlson will focus on growing Splunk’s business transformation efforts, advancing its cloud initiatives and accelerating general growth, the company said Monday.

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Ashok Sankar, director of marketing and strategy for public sector and education at Splunk, has said that Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-authorized cloud tools are vital to helping agencies accelerate modernization, FedScoop reported Thursday.

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Bill Wright, director of federal government affairs at Splunk, wrote in a Federal Times article posted Monday that agencies should provide employees with training and reskilling opportunities to prepare them for rising data volumes.

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Frank Dimina, vice president of public sector at Splunk, has said that agencies should consider using data collected from Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation procedures to generate more insights on cybersecurity.

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Frank Dimina, vice president of public sector at Splunk, wrote in a Nextgov article published Tuesday that providing government employees and citizens access to data through the concept of data democracy could help agencies improve customer experience and regain public trust.

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Bill Wright, director of federal government affairs at Splunk, has said that implementing a zero-trust architecture will enable agencies to augment security procedures while leveraging data across the information technology infrastructure.

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