The $35K Performance Problem

The $35K Performance Problem

A Fortune 500 client was about to spend $35,000 on new hardware. Their Splunk searches were taking 2+ minutes, dashboards were timing out, and users were complaining daily. I found the real problem in 10 minutes. It cost $0 to fix.

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The Permission Problem

The Permission Problem

"Can you check why this search isn't working?" I looked at the query. Perfect syntax. Correct index. Should work. But it returned zero results. The problem? Permissions. The #1 invisible issue in enterprise Splunk.

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The Compliance Gap Nobody Monitors

Your Next Compliance Audit Doesn't Have to Start With a Spreadsheet

Every quarter, someone on your team spends days pulling CIS Benchmark scan data into spreadsheets just to answer one question: are we compliant? If you're already running CIS-CAT Pro scans and already running Splunk, that pipeline shouldn't require manual work.

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The STIG Checklist That Never Gets Done

Your STIG Checklist Results Deserve Better Than a Spreadsheet

Every quarter, someone on your team spends days pulling STIG checklist results into spreadsheets just to answer one question: are we compliant? CKL and CKLB files belong in your SIEM, not in a spreadsheet.

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