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Splunk is a data platform for log management, security monitoring (SIEM), and observability, now part of Cisco.
Splunk fixed 22 Enterprise CVEs on October 7, led by a 9.8 unauthenticated command flaw in the Patroni REST API. Sites without Edge Processor, OpAmp or SPL2 pipelines can switch off the PostgreSQL sidecar now, but a second 9.8 still needs the upgrade.
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SonicWall patched four SMA1000 flaws, led by CVE-2026-102255, a CVSS 10 request-forgery bug that an attacker can use without logging in. The company says none of the four is being exploited, so owners who update now are ahead of any known attack.
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Cisco used WebexOne to present Webex as the place where people and agents meet on one AI platform consolidated from roughly 250 acquisitions. Many Webex buyers got their first detailed look at that pitch in a keynote about token budgets and agent network load.
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Cisco is putting AI agents into Webex, including a Dialog layer that keeps customer-service agents working on a request after the conversation ends. Most of it arrives in early 2027, SiliconANGLE reported, so buyers signing next year will be judging features with no track record.
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NetApp has added a behavior-based policy engine to its AI Data Engine that flags unusual data use by AI agents, with six months free. For storage admins running agents, its value depends on what happens once a flag fires.
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OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra after it failed alignment tests, a cancellation reported 31 days after the company unveiled GPT-6 Astra. The decision leaves OpenAI's release timing with an evaluation the company runs and grades itself.
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Gartner expects spending on AI agents and assistants to more than double to $65.5bn next year, while many firms cannot measure the return. Splunk executives who described that gap were selling a tool to close it, and the tool leaves buyers to define what an agent's work is worth.
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Uptime Institute's survey puts 45% of IT workloads on company-owned infrastructure, unchanged in a year when hyperscalers reached 48% of global capacity. Budgets built on Synergy's forecast of 19% on-premise capacity by 2031 would retire more in-house hardware than that workload split supports.
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Cisco Talos released its CAIRN framework on September 22nd to hunt prompts, provider endpoints and API-key prefixes in malware metadata. Its first case study polls four commercial models and runs the winner.
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Microsoft and Omdia put the average security operations centre at close to 3,000 alerts a day with 42% never investigated, while a 2026 benchmark scored the best frontier model at 3.8% on finding malicious events in raw Windows logs.
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Token Meter reads the trace files Claude Code, Codex and Cursor already leave on a developer's disk and prices them against published model rates. The budget alert it fires goes to whoever ran the session.
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A quantised 27B on one 16GB GPU audited a home Splunk and Sysmon install with nothing leaving the host. Its first repair attempt ran the 128K context window dry. A halt rule in the system prompt got it under control.
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Cisco and Splunk spent the .conf26 keynotes on trust and on who is authorized to act. The two items named as shipping are a token-cost meter available now and a dataset join gated on holding two licenses.
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A release date for the model is not public, and the OpenTelemetry Universal Collector it sits beside is due in beta in 2027. The Splunk telemetry model an observability team can download and test this week is still the metrics one.
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Lip-Bu Tan told a Splunk keynote in Denver that relying on one Taiwan-based company for 95% of AI chip production is very risky. The one 14A commitment he can point to, Terafab, ships its first product in mid-2028.
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Cisco's Splunk unit is repositioning around telemetry it expects agents to generate faster than people can read, with a new fabric that queries Snowflake, Databricks and object stores in place. Pricing was not disclosed.
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Speaking in Los Angeles on the 14th, Nvidia's chief executive called warnings about AI wiping out humanity unscientific and proposed sandboxes, monitoring and outside auditors instead. Then Trump called in on speakerphone.
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Cilium 1.19 puts routing, mTLS and observability in one eBPF program per node, with a single Envoy per node for Layer 7. The 100 GB of RAM the post says that frees assumes 1,000 pods at the top of the sidecar range.
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Akeyless has made Agentic Runtime Authority generally available. It judges each agent action against the task the agent was given, and blocks a database delete or a bulk export even where the agent's credentials permit it.
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A twelve-week countdown for Black Friday 2026 sizes the load target from sessions per hour and average session length, then pushes a journey-level test past that target until the response-time tail bends.
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