Contributors

Splunk Security Essentials has many key contributors. While it’s impossible to list everyone who has contributed in some way, we want to give as much credit as possible to the crew that has helped make it what it is today.

Primary Authors

• Johan Bjerke. Principal Security Strategist
• Nick Roy. Staff Security Specialist

Original Creator

• David Veuve

Code Committers

• Dave Herrald. Principal Security Strategist.
• Tony Cihak. Senior Software Engineer.

Constant Advisors

• James Brodsky. Director of Global Security Strategists.
• Dave Herrald. Principal Security Strategist.
• Ryan Kovar. Principal Security Strategist.
• John Stoner. Principal Security Strategist.
• Lily Lee. Staff Security Specialist.
• Ryan Faircloth. Professional Services Architect, Security.

Original Code Fork

• Splunk MLTK Team, particularly Sergey Slepian. SSE 1.0 was forked from an early version of the MLTK Showcase App.

Analytics Advisor Creator

• Johan Bjerke. Principal Security Strategist.

Security Data Journey Creator

• Dave Herrald. Principal Security Strategist.

UBA Masters

• Tom Smit. Staff Sales Engineer.
• Jeswanth Manikonda. Product Manager - Security Content.

Phantom of the Opera, Master of Viz

• Nick Roy. Staff Security Specialist.

ESCU Interfacers and APIers

• Jose Hernandez. Principal Security Researcher.
• Tony Cihak. Senior Security Specialist.

Risk-Based Analyzer

• Jim Apger. Staff Security Architect.

Data Onboarding Guide Authors

• Filip Wijnholds. Staff Sales Engineer.
• Michel Oosterhof. Staff Sales Engineer.
• Derek King. Staff Sales Engineer.
• Ryan Lait. Senior Sales Engineer.
• Richard Hensen. Staff Sales Engineer.
• Simon O’Brien. Principal Sales Engineer.
• Tom Smit. Staff Sales Engineer.
• Steve Brant. Security Solutions Architect.
• Kyle Champlin. Principal Product Manager.
• Mark Karlstrand. Senior Product Manager.

MITRE Tamers

• Ian Richardson. Senior Security Specialist.
• Tim Frazier. Senior Security Specialist.
• Han Lievens. Senior Security Specialist.

Data Source Category Describers

• Lily Lee. Staff Security Specialist.
• Ian Forrest. Staff Security Specialist.
• Ryan Faircloth. Professional Services Architect, Security.

UX Wizard

• Shruti Shrivastava. Principal UX Designer.

UX Consultant

• Ryan Kovar. Principal Security Strategist.
• Lily Lee. Staff Security Specialist.

Book and Marketing Advocate

• Jade Catalano. Senior Product Marketing Manager
• Amy Heng. Product Marketing Specialist

Logo Builder

• Lily Lee. Staff Security Specialist.

Premium Content Highlighter.

• James Brodsky. Director of Global Security Strategists.

CIM Vladidator.

• Vlad Skyork. Principal Professional Services Architect.

Master GCPer

• Brian Cusick. Senior Sales Engineer.

Master Azurian

• Josef Kuepker. Staff Security Specialist.

Saturday Question Answerer

• David Hazekamp. Principal Software Engineer.

Overview Dashboard Builder

• Jon Nussbaum. Staff Sales Engineer.

App Namer

• Jae Lee. Product Marketing Director.

Overall Helpers

• Everyone at Splunk.
• Navin Kumar. Insight Engines, Principal Engineer.