The old way: Information silos mask suspect data flows.

Information security's number one priority is the protection of intellectual property, customer information and other sensitive data. Organizations are deploying a wide range of technologies from content monitoring and filtering to data-at-rest encryption, client security suites and network access control in an attempt to eliminate different risk scenarios. However, business realities force these new control technologies to be deployed to monitor rather than block many suspicious flows. This results in yet more data for already inundated security teams to monitor and analyze when leaks are suspected. Rigid security event management tools often lack support for these new data formats, and the sheer volume of data about every information flow in the organization overwhelms almost any tool.

The new way: IT Search pinpoints leaks quickly.

Splunk indexes all data, regardless of format, including content monitoring, firewall activity, and logs from email, IM, web proxies and client security that could possibly be leveraged to understand any data leakage scenario. It scales linearly to handle terabytes of data per day in a single deployment. It can even index call detail records and physical security system badge access logs! Security analysts can search and navigate this data in real-time using an intuitive, interactive interface that lets them follow the winding paths of many data leakage scenarios. Better yet, Splunk's powerful search language and transaction search capabilities allow for instances of complex suspicious patterns to be found with single searches that can be scheduled to generate proactive alerts. This makes Splunk the most versatile possible monitoring tool for any kind of data leakage risk.