Availability of Splunk App for Enterprise Security 2.0
Today we are proud to release the Splunk App for Enterprise Security 2.0, which I’ll call “the App” in this blog. The App acts a next-generation Security and Information Event Manager (SIEM). It excels at identifying and alerting on both known and unknown threats, and doubles as a powerful tool for security investigations and forensics.
The history behind the App is a compelling story. In a nutshell, we really didn’t set out to be a SIEM; our customers made the decision for us. 
Back when we started shipping code in 2006, our focus was on building a highly-scalable, schema-less, big data platform that could ingest essentially all machine data and then be searched…
