Compliance

Manual and Inefficient Processes

Compliance mandates such as PCI, SOX and FISMA require businesses to protect, track, and control access to and usage of sensitive information. Each requirement has it its own set of complicated, costly, and time consuming demands. Addressing these strains IT resources and creates redundant processes and expenditures within an organization.

For example, compliance audits result in a lot of manual data requests creating a huge distraction for IT. Companies are required to retain data for long periods, driving the purchase of expensive log management software, appliances and related storage, just to comply in this one area, but with little operational value. Compliance requirements to monitor logs and changes drives costly investments in SIEM, change monitoring and other technologies to implement specific monitoring and controls. Compliance also impacts day-to-day operations with segregation of duties keeping developers and operational teams off production systems affecting troubleshooting and system availability.

Cost Effective, Repeatable Compliance

Splunk solves all these challenges in one place. Splunk indexes all your IT data in real time allowing you to search, alert and report on all of it, enabling you to generate reports in seconds while at the same time meeting requirements to collect and retain specific audit trails. Splunk’s ability to also do both security monitoring and change monitoring satisfies requirements to meet these controls. It even enables developers to safely access production data, without involving operations teams on compliance violations or exceptions.

The hundreds of customers using Splunk for compliance routinely comment on their ability to quickly close compliance gaps, enable greater levels of automation to meet compliance mandates, and demonstrate compliance across all their requirements from a single system.

Using Splunk for compliance helps satisfy the requirements of multiple mandates in a single system, enabling you to monitor access to and usage of all your sensitive data, and quickly generate reports to demonstrate compliance with the given regulation more simply and cost-effectively than before.

• SOX - Provide comprehensive visibility across all controls required for SOX compliance and retrieve any information requested by IT auditors instantly.
• FISMA - Securely collect, index and store all your log and IT data along with audit trails to meet the critical requirements of regulations and standards affecting United States federal agencies and contractors.
• PCI - Meet PCI compliance requirements for audit trail collection, retention and review. Generate reports in seconds to prove compliance with any PCI control. Comply with explicit PCI IT data control requirements across all of your infrastructure including file integrity monitoring.

 

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Splunk Benefits

• Compliance Executives
• Security Analysts
• Operations
• Developers
• Reduce effort and cost by meeting all your compliance mandates from a single system.
• Protect against compliance control exceptions by monitoring all your IT infrastructure data for early warning signs.
• Reduce time spent responding to ad-hoc auditors requests by enabling compliance teams to get the data they need without requesting it from operations teams.
• Streamline monitoring of security events by automatically alerting on threats across your entire IT infrastructure.
• Minimize burden of mandated log reviews by automating the entire daily log review process.
• Perform comprehensive investigations in minutes instead of hours or days, by searching and analyzing all your logs, audit trails and other relevant data across your entire IT infrastructure from one place.
• Improve productivity by eliminating much of the time spent responding to ad-hoc auditors requests.
• Increase system security and stability by eliminating direct access to production systems for compliance troubleshooting and analysis.
• Stop playing "data butler" by giving security analysts and developers self-service, controlled ability to perform ad-hoc searches of production data across all applications, servers and network devices.
• Get productive and work around limitations brought on by compliance by performing ad-hoc searches on all your production data from one place without requiring direct access to production servers.
• Resolve production issues faster by monitoring for early warning signs across all your production applications and systems.

Compliance Using Splunk

With Splunk you can address these issues across your applicable regulations:

Secure data retention

Splunk provides the most efficient and secure solution for capturing and retaining all of your IT data for the extended periods demanded by most compliance mandates. Data is efficiently compressed, yet still useful, with clear chain-of-evidence, even for application logs.

Controlled data access

Eliminate the compliance barriers that get in the way of operations by controlling access to all your IT data, but allowing access necessary to get the job done. Also see Application Management.

Compliance reporting

Splunk not only gives you compliance with explicit requirements to monitor, review and retain logs, configurations and other IT data, but it lets you demonstrate compliance quickly and easily with powerful auditor friendly reporting.

Security monitoring

Comply with requirements to automate monitoring of security events. Index audit trails across firewalls, applications, access control, IDS and any other component, then simply save, schedule and set alerting rules for any search.

Compliance investigations

Generate standard and ad-hoc reports across all PCI affected systems and data sources. Empower compliance team to access required data safely and securely and without involving other groups.

Change Monitoring

Splunk lets you monitor all your files, registry, database changes, and more using same system that you use for log management.

Audit trail review

The chore of compliance-mandated routine log review can be easy and straightforward with fast search, visualization, filters and tagging.