Compliance Solutions

Any data, Any Compliance

Compliance mandates such as PCI, HIPAA and FISMA require businesses to protect, track, and control access to and usage of sensitive information. Each requirement has 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 drive 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, which in turn affects troubleshooting and system availability.

Cost Effective, Repeatable Compliance Solutions

Splunk solves all of these challenges in one place. Splunk indexes your machine data in real-time, allowing you to search, alert and report on all of it. You can 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 and change monitoring satisfies requirements to meet these controls. It even allows developers to safely access production data, without distracting operations teams or causing 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 requirements from a single system.

Using Splunk for compliance helps satisfy the requirements of multiple mandates in a single system. You can 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.

• FISMA - Securely collect, index and store all of your log and machine data along with audit trails to meet the critical requirements of regulations and standards affecting United States federal agencies and contractors.
• PCI - Meet requirements for audit trail collection, retention and review. Generate reports in seconds to prove compliance with any control. Comply with explicit data control requirements across your infrastructure, including file integrity monitoring.
• SEC - Use Splunk and pattern-based analysis as part of a risk mitigation strategy for "Risks related to cyber incidents that may remain undetected for an extended period," as suggested by the SEC for 10-K risk-factors guidance.

Splunk Benefits

Compliance Using Splunk

With Splunk you can address these regulatory issues:

Secure data retention

Splunk provides the most efficient and secure solution for capturing and retaining all of your machine 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 inhibit operations by controlling access to your machine data, but allow the appropriate access necessary to get the job done. Also see Application Management.

Compliance reporting

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

Security monitoring

Comply with requirements for automatic 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 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.