As the founder and leader of the Splunk User Group in Edinburgh, I have added the below resources and links to our sessions, slides and how to get involved with the community.
Key Resources
- Splunk User Groups Slack (Request Form)
- LinkedIn Group for Edinburgh User Group
- SlideShare (Session Slides)
| When / Where | What / Who | Resources |
| May 22, 2018 Edinburgh Napier University | Using Splunk & Phantom for Automation/Orchestration and Using Splunk with Docker for Building a Lab Join us for an evening where we’ll take a look at Phantom (Splunk’s latest purchase), how it can be integrated with the Splunk platform and used for automation/orchestration. We’ll also be taking a look at using Splunk with Docker for slim but useful development environments. Finally, an introduction into Splunk Enterprise Security Content Updates which align new/best practices security use cases to the attack chain and more! Presenters: Tom Wise, Tomasz Dziwok, Harry McLaren | Event / Recording |
| March 13, 2018 Edinburgh Napier University | TSTATS, the Life of a Splunk Trainer and using DevOps in Splunk Development Session on using TSTATS and the internal Splunk logs, have a Splunk Trainer share his journey with Splunk and how he’s managed to achieve every possible Splunk certification (over 10!), and a short discussion about emerging thoughts of using development/release frameworks with Splunk. Presenters: Tom Wise, Andrew McManus, Harry McLaren | Event / Slides |
| January 11, 2018 Edinburgh Napier University | The Missing Layers: Syslog Collection & HTTP Event Collection Session to discuss the [often] missing layers of event collection within Splunk deployments. The ins and outs of traditional syslog collection and also explored how the Splunk HTTP Event Collector can be used to similar effect. Presenters: Graeme Curtis, Harry McLaren | Event / Slides |
| October 16, 2017 Edinburgh Napier University | Latest Updates to Splunk Enterprise, Enterprise Security & IT Service Intelligence from .conf Session to detail some of the best announcements from the recent Splunk users conference. Presenters: Harry McLaren | Event / Slides |
| August 22, 2017 Edinburgh Napier University | Securing the Enterprise/Cloud with Splunk at the Centre Session to cover the topics of using Splunk to secure the Cloud (AWS), then coving a number of use cases or orchestration with Adaptive Response. Presenters: Robert Williamson, Harry McLaren | Event / Slides |
| June 27, 2017 Edinburgh Napier University | Supporting Splunk at Scale, Splunking at Home & Introduction to Enterprise Security Session to cover the topics of supporting Splunk within a large enterprise, using Splunk to gather and report on personal email metadata and an introduction to Splunk Enterprise Security. Presenters: Chris Chalmers, David Prior, Adam Thomson | Event / Slides |
| April 04, 2017 Edinburgh Napier University | Building Splunk Apps, Development Paths with Splunk & User Behaviour Analytics Session to cover the topics of building Apps, the various education/certification development paths and exploring Splunk User Behaviour Analytics (UBA). Presenters: Adam Thomson, Robert Williamson, Harry McLaren | Event / Slides |
| February 24, 2017 Edinburgh Napier University | Dashboarding Workshop & Universal vs. Heavy Forwarders Session to cover the topics of dashboarding techniques and when to use Universal Forwarders vs. Heavy Forwarders. Presenters: Robert Williamson, Harry McLaren | Event / Slides |
| November 23, 2016 Edinburgh Napier University | Operational Insight with IT Service Intelligence & Use Case Development Session to cover the topics of IT operations using Splunk IT Service Intelligence and explaining the importance of Use Case Development following set processes and procedures. Presenters: Robert Williamson, Harry McLaren | Event / Slides |
| September 28, 2016 Edinburgh Napier University | Splunk Security & Best Practices Session to cover the topics of large-scale Splunk deployments and how to secure Splunk within an enterprise. Presenters: Harry McLaren | Event / Slides |
There is some duplication from the lists of the decks/content from ‘Speaking‘, but it keeps it all together.