Ashok Sankar, director of industry marketing, public sector and education at Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK), said agencies moving to the cloud to accommodate remote work should have granular visibility into data in order to generate security and operational insights.

Katy Mann, a two-decade government technology sales veteran, has been promoted to area vice president for federal civilian agencies at data management software provider Splunk. Mann most recently served as director of national security programs at the San Francisco-based company and led the delivery of its operational intelligence offerings to defense and intelligence customers.

Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK) has launched a venture arm to invest in startups that leverages data to improve business and bring about social change. The company said Wednesday Splunk Ventures is composed of the $100M Innovation Fund and the $50M Social Impact Fund.

Graham Smith, former chief financial officer at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has been named chairman of the board of directors of data management software vendor Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK). Smith has served as a board member at Splunk over the past eight years, the company said Monday. He previously held finance leadership …

Frank Dimina, who joined Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK) in 2016, has been appointed VP of the technology firm’s public sector arm, GovCon Wire has learned. In his current role, Dimina oversees Splunk’s federal, state, local and higher education businesses. He previously managed the company’s work with federal civilian clients as area VP …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 29, 2018 — BAE Systems and Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK) have entered into a partnership to integrate security and cloud computing technologies in support of network monitoring for federal civilian, defense and intelligence agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 16. The Splunk Enterprise software and machine learning capability will be incorporated …

Kevin Davis, vice president for public sector at Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK), has said government agencies should implement an adaptive response strategy to immediately address evolving cyber threats, automate their security processes and equip multi-layered security platforms with a defensive strategy. Davis wrote that the key to the implementation of such a strategy is data …

Kevin Davis, vice president for public sector at Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK), has said government agencies seeking to comply with cybersecurity policies and data protection regulations should deploy a platform that works to automate the collection and analysis of large volumes of data. Davis wrote that implementing an automated system for compliance monitoring could …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 20, 2017 — Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has entered into a partnership with Splunk in efforts to develop an integrated analytics-based cybersecurity service that utilizes data and insights from the companies’ technology platforms, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Splunk said Tuesday the team has launched a private beta version of Booz …

Kevin Davis, vice president for public sector at Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK), has said government agencies should implement big data and analytics platforms in an effort to generate insights or “operational intelligence” from machine data and facilitate the decision-making process. Davis wrote that the collection, correlation and analysis of machine data could help organizations …