What does a typical day look like for someone who uses Splunk®?
Meet Sarah, a Security Analyst at a mid-sized healthcare company. Here’s how she spent yesterday:
- Sarah opens her Splunk dashboard and notices an alert: unusual login activity from multiple locations for the same user account. Could be a compromised password or someone traveling for work.
- She dives deeper into the data. The logins came from three different countries within two hours. Definitely suspicious. She correlates this with email logs and discovers the account hasn’t sent any emails, confirming it’s likely compromised.
- Sarah creates an incident report and works with IT to temporarily disable the account. She also searches for similar patterns across other user accounts to see if this is part of a larger attack.
- Later, she builds a new dashboard for the compliance team. They need to track access to patient records for their quarterly audit. Sarah sets up automated reports that will save them hours of manual work.
- She spots an interesting trend in the week’s data: network traffic spikes every Tuesday. After investigating, she discovers it’s staff accessing training videos. She recommends moving the training to off-peak hours to improve system performance.
Sarah’s work directly protects patient data and keeps critical healthcare systems running smoothly. Every pattern she spots, every alert she investigates, and every report she creates helps her organization serve patients better and more securely.
This is what modern cybersecurity looks like: part detective work, part data analysis, all critical to protecting organizations and the people they serve.
Companies are actively seeking people who can think analytically and spot patterns in data. With Ableversity’s practical, beginner-friendly Splunk training, you can develop these investigative skills and position yourself for roles where your work directly protects organizations and communities.
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