Security and Compliance
Security and compliance issues happen fast and can start anywhere in your enterprise architecture. Current trends show increased sophistication of malware and increased creativity in defeating signature or rules based systems. Keeping data safe is no longer about hoping your traditional security architecture is going to catch potential security issues. Most of the security systems are watching for things that happened in the past or things that have already been seen in the wild. This approach reinforces the businesses attitude that security is a cost center, is reactionary, and doesn't generate value for the business.
Splunk provides a better approach. It collects and indexes all of your machine data, enabling end-to-end situational awareness, real-time monitoring of incidents and attacks and new levels of visibility and intelligence. This helps security teams move from reactive to proactive.
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End-to-End Situational Awareness and Monitoring
Security and compliance teams typically go through four phases of Splunk use - each building upon the next - to provide Operational Intelligence.
- Forensics and root cause analysis - Splunk scales across massive amounts of unstructured and structured application and security data. Time based correlation allows the security team to drill into system data, perform forensics and find the needle-in-a-haystack.
- Operationalizing search - Searches used for forensics investigations can be saved and run automatically in real-time or continuously against historic data and alerts sent to teams or team members.
- Real-time trending visualizations - Splunk's rich analytical capabilities make it easy to provide security dashboards that show trends in application performance alongside access and security data representations for better decision-making. Conditional correlations across data sets reveal potential business fraud and compliance issues.
- Operational intelligence - Splunk is able to look-up and include information from other parts of the business in dashboards and reports, the inclusion of finance data can help the business understand the income lost when systems are unavailable. Splunk can accelerate incident response by looking up and adding host owner and location data to malware dashboards. The security team can create threat-based proactive searches for patterns of system activity that can represent potential risks to the business.
Gaining Operational Intelligence means being able to show how security and compliance issues affect top line revenue, create efficiencies that lower cost, and show reputation and compliance risks to the business. Security is moved from a cost center to being seen as adding value to the business.
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"We can generate ad hoc reports to track any transaction or user activity QSA auditors want to see and easily show we are PCI compliant in minutes. I’ve decreed Splunk will be a part of all data center build-outs going forward."
Director of IT