About the Reviewers

Mathieu Dessus is a security consultant for Verizon in France and acts as the SIEM leader for EMEA. With more than 12 years of experience in the security area, he has acquired a deep technical background in the management, design, assessment, and systems integration of information security technologies. He specializes in web security, Unix, SIEM, and security architecture design.

Cindy McCririe is a client architect at Splunk. In this role, she has worked with several of Splunk's enterprise customers, ensuring successful deployment of the technology. Many of these customers are using Splunk in unique ways. Sample use cases include PCI compliance, security, operations management, business intelligence, Dev/Ops, and transaction profiling.

Nick Mealy was an early employee at Splunk and worked as the Mad Scientist / Principal User Interface Developer at Splunk from March 2005 to September 2010. He led the technical design and development of the systems that power Splunk's search and reporting interfaces as well as on the general systems that power Splunk's configurable views and dashboards. In 2010, he left Splunk to found his current company, Sideview, which is creating new Splunk apps and new products on top of the Splunk platform. The most widely known of these products is the Sideview Utils app, which has become very widely deployed (and will be discussed in Chapter 8, Building Advanced Dashboards). Sideview Utils provides new UI modules and new techniques that make it easier for Splunk app developers and dashboard creators to create and maintain their custom views and dashboards.