Kushagra Sharma's Blog Posts

Kushagra Sharma is a Product Manager at Cisco working on AIOps products that help teams operate complex systems with intelligence and scale. He focuses on translating customer problems into practical, data-driven solutions at the intersection of AI, reliability, and software platforms. Passionate about clear thinking and strong product craft, Kushagra writes to share insights on technology, product strategy, and building systems that actually work in the real world.

Threat Update: AwfulShred Script Wiper
Security
7 Minute Read

Threat Update: AwfulShred Script Wiper

The Splunk Threat Research Team shares their findings on the Linux-targeted destructive payload AwfulShred.
#SplunkNews: A Week in Review
Splunk Life
1 Minute Read

#SplunkNews: A Week in Review

This week's good news round up from Splunker RBH includes two exciting new leaders and a hat trick industry recognition for the company in the SIEM and security analytics space.
Splunk Gets the Hat Trick!
Security
2 Minute Read

Splunk Gets the Hat Trick!

Splunk Enterprise Security was named a leader in SIEM and security analytics by three analyst firms - Forrester, IDC and a third analyst firm. In fact, Splunk is the only SIEM provider to be named a “Leader” in SIEM by all three top analyst reports.
It Takes a Village – And Some New Features From Splunk – To Scale Your Cloud Monitoring Without Breaking the Bank
Observability
4 Minute Read

It Takes a Village – And Some New Features From Splunk – To Scale Your Cloud Monitoring Without Breaking the Bank

New features within Splunk Observability Cloud empower engineering teams to scale their observability practice while controlling costs.
Are You a Good or Great Boxer? Real-World Approaches of Building Cyber Resilience in 2023
Leadership
6 Minute Read

Are You a Good or Great Boxer? Real-World Approaches of Building Cyber Resilience in 2023

You must have been asleep not to have heard about Splunk’s new mission - ‘to build a safer and more resilient digital world’. Why have we chosen this? Well, not because it is a snappy little tagline, but because we know how important digital resilience is to all of our customers in our ever changing times.
Introducing the PEAK Threat Hunting Framework
Security
4 Minute Read

Introducing the PEAK Threat Hunting Framework

Introducing the PEAK Threat Hunting Framework, bringing a fresh perspective to threat hunting and incorporating three distinct types of hunts.