In May 2017, Splunk acquired Drastin, a software company that provides search-based analytics for enterprises. Īccording to Glassdoor, it was the fourth highest-paying company for employees in the United States in April 2017. In 2016, Splunk pledged to donate $100 million in software licenses, training, support, education, and volunteerism for nonprofits and schools over a 10-year period. to offer combined cyberthreat detection and intelligence-analysis technology. government security contractor Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. In October 2015 Splunk sealed a 'cybersecurity alliance' with U.S. In July 2015 Splunk acquired Caspida, a cybersecurity startup, for US$190 million. In June 2015, Splunk acquired the software company Metafor that uses machine learning technology to analyze data generated IT infrastructure and applications. In December 2013, Splunk acquired Cloudmeter, a provider of network data capture technologies. It supplied a 'software developer kit' to give developers access to data analytics from mobile devices that it managed from its scalable cloud platform.

BugSense provides 'a mobile analytics platform used by developers to improve app performance and improve quality'. In September 2013 the company acquired BugSense, a mobile-device data-analytics company. In 2012 Splunk had its initial public offering, trading under NASDAQ symbol SPLK. Venture firms August Capital, Sevin Rosen, Ignition Partners and JK&B Capital backed the company.īy 2007 Splunk had raised US$40 million it became profitable in 2009. Michael Baum, Rob Das and Erik Swan co-founded Splunk Inc in 2003. This enables the security analyst to use normative statistical analytics on any data to help find unknown threats, while continuing to monitor for known threats detected by traditional security products.History Founding & early years A security intelligence platform has the flexibility to make any data security relevant, scale to handle tens of terabytes of data per day and provide comprehensive analysis capabilities. Detecting today's advanced threats requires a new approach that can only be enabled by a scalable security intelligence platform. Monitoring for known threats as reported by traditional security systems and unknown threats has now become part of the revised security charter. These attackers have realized that many security teams simply can't see these threats buried within operations data, due to organizational data silos, data collection issues, scalability challenges or a lack of analytics capabilities. They hide their actions within the terabytes of data generated through normal user activities.

Today's attackers have the time, expertise and resources to create threats that bypass detection by security point products and downstream security and event management (SIEM) systems.

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