Splunk datetime.xml needs your attention! Deadline? 1st January 2020

For all of you Splunk users out there listen up! There is an important issue you need to address with your Splunk deployments today. It’s recently been disclosed that there is a date-time configuration issue on the current versions of Splunk Enterprise which will cause issues with some data onboarding in your environments come 1st…

Conf 19 Retrospective

So it’s been a few weeks since the amazing event that was Splunk .Conf19 wrapped up in those amazing lights of the Las Vegas strip…. but we haven’t got over it just yet! At 13Fields we are still feeling the high of the amazing experiences, opportunities, announcements, partnerships, and social opportunities that have come out…

BSides MCR 2019

This week I was one of the lucky people who got to go along to Bsides Manchester, and not for the first time the team blew me away. Over the years I have been to a few Bsides events and have to admit that I am one of the few who have grown tired of…

Why a Narrative is just as important

We deal with terabytes of data each week; we see the power of this data unleashed in multiple clients and how it is empowering various functions to make smarter, quicker and better decisions to solve IT, Security and business challenges big and small. But, there is something that can just as, or even, more powerful…

Speaking at Bluecoat School Liverpool

Hay all, Paul here, writing up my feelings and experiences of speaking at the Bluecoat School Liverpool this week. To me, nothing is more important that having the opportunity to share, inspire and leas the next generation to believe they can change things, to do better, to take us further and bring new perspective to…