The old way: Reactive, cumbersome manual analysis.

Everyone in security knows that malicious insiders are the source of the most damaging security incidents. Logic bombs, data thefts that circumvent application controls, malicious scripts — insiders know how your systems work and can come up with the most insidious ways to exploit their knowledge. Detecting and investigating insider threat requires analysts to inspect every possible kind of IT data from configuration files and scripts on every host to logs from every tier of the infrastructure. Application, database, and filesystem auditing are just the start — badge systems and physical security logs even come into play. Specialized monitoring tools don't cover many of the data sources where insiders can leave a trail.

The new way: IT Search powers insider threat detection.

Splunk indexes all of your IT data, regardless of format or location, so you can search across every place a malicious insider may have passed through to steal information or plant something dangerous. Instantly retrieve every access for a specific badge, every administrative logon, every access to a given file, every new script or configuration change — all from one place. Then turn these searches into alerts so you can be proactively notified of suspicious activity. Or put together a dashboard of routine activity that bears regular review. Splunk finally makes it possible to watch the watchers.