Modern data platforms enable organizations to work with any kind of data regardless of where it is stored, Splunk's Bill Rowan said in an interview. Rowan, the vice president of public sector at Splunk and a Wash100 winner, discussed the benefits users can gain from modern data platforms, which he described as "key to enabling enterprise resilience and innovation."

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RavenTek has partnered with cybersecurity services provider NuHarbor Security to develop a unified offering to enable public sector customers to deploy and manage multiple capabilities on Splunk. The offering will combine RavenTek's RavenVISION framework with NuHarbor's cybersecurity and managed security operations center services to provide government organizations access to integrated Splunk security and information technology observability capabilities, RavenTek said Thursday.

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Bill Rowan, vice president of public sector at Splunk and a four-time Wash100 awardee, said in a commentary published Friday on Federal News Network that federal agencies looking to improve critical infrastructure through digital resilience and adoption of the National Cybersecurity Strategy should use next-generation observability tools.

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Bill Rowan, vice president of public sector at Splunk, said that organizations implementing zero trust strategies will be more effective if they gradually adopt ZT security measures instead of executing them in all departments at the same time. In a Fed Gov Today interview aired Sunday, Rowan discussed the challenges that lead to varying impacts […] More

Bill Rowan, vice president of public sector at Splunk and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said the company has achieved an “In Process” designation under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud platform. Rowan wrote in a blog post published Thursday that the designation reflects the company’s commitment to receiving FedRAMP High authority […] More

Executive Mosaic is proud to induct Bill Rowan, vice president of public sector at Splunk, into the 2023 edition of the Wash100 for his work strengthening Splunk’s cybersecurity and data offerings and his efforts to expand the company’s partnerships with the federal government. The Wash100 Award is an annual list of the most impactful and consequential executives whom […] More

A new Splunk study has found that 66 percent of public sector organizations face difficulties in using data to mitigate cybersecurity threats and recover from cyber incidents and 52 percent of such organizations struggle to leverage data to inform decisions related to cybersecurity. Splunk said Wednesday 56 percent of respondents in the public sector reported […] More

New challenges and opportunities are emerging as government and industry organizations migrate to the cloud and step into the next era of digital transformation. From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, much of this migration and modernization has been accelerated, and now, GovCon leaders are taking a closer look at how to better protect their […] More

Bill Rowan, vice president of public sector at Splunk and a three-time Wash100 awardee, said Department of Defense customers have completed fielding the company’s cloud service offering to handle sensitive data at Impact Level 5. The company secured the Defense Security Information Systems Agency’s IL5 provisional authorization in 2021 that allows Splunk Cloud Platform to […] More

Tiffanny Gates, senior managing director and National Security Portfolio lead for Accenture Federal Services and three-time Wash100 Award winner, moderated a full expert panel on Wednesday during Baird’s 2021 Government & Defense Conference. Gates hosted the expert panel to discuss the challenges that the intelligence community faces as the U.S. continues to work to adapt to the […] More

Splunk will offer discounted products and services to help federal agencies comply with President Joe Biden’s executive order on cyber response. The company said Tuesday its Government Logging Modernization Program will provide federal agency customers with cloud packages, lower-cost storage options, exclusive programmatic pricing, security expertise and cloud migration assessments. Cloud packages and migration services […] More

Orca Security has received $550 million in its extended round of Series C financing led by Singapore-based investment company Temasek and announced strategic investments from Science Applications International Corp. and Splunk Ventures. Orca said Tuesday it will use the investments to broaden its global presence and expand the delivery of cloud security platforms to government […] More