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ASICS Automates Incident Management and Resolution With Real-Time Log Analysis
ASICS, a Japanese multinational corporation formed by the merger of Onitsuka, GTO and Jelenk, offers a full range of sports supplies and equipment aiming to create a quality lifestyle through intelligent sport technologies.
To fight cyberthreats and address incidents at the very moment they occur, ASICS required a central platform to manage, correlate and analyze logs generated from multiple systems. Since deploying Splunk Enterprise, the company has seen benefits including:
- Real-time visibility into incidents and threats through automated log analysis
- Enhanced social accountability due to improved security and visibility
- Boosted efficiency and productivity due to streamlined operations
Challenges
- Lack of timely response to incidents and threats
- Inability to centralize log management and analysis
- Inefficient incident response and resolution requiring a lot of manual effort
- Social accountability challenges due to potential data breaches and security risks
Business Impact
- Heightened business security due to real-time visibility into incidents and threats
- Improved operational efficiency due to automated, centralized log management with minimal manual intervention
- Enhanced social accountability with secure and transparent operations
- Sustainable business growth with the potential to go further with Splunk
Why Splunk
ASICS has taken proactive steps to safeguard its business over the years. These include setting up the information security committee and information security office, as well as the computer security incident response team (CSIRT) and security operations center (SOC). After putting the resources in place, however, the company was still unable to centrally manage and analyze the logs generated from internal systems scattered across different locations including firewalls, proxy servers and endpoint detection and response systems, while preserving the trails of evidence for the purpose of social accountability. All of these tasks have been time-consuming, requiring a lot of manual procedures.
Another priority is to accurately detect and provide timely response to every endpoint threat, whether it is an email fraud, a cyberattack or any other issue, through 24/7 monitoring. For crisis prevention, ASICS also needs a reliable mechanism for extracting anomalous patterns and identifying suspicious devices through correlation and historical analysis of log data. Splunk Enterprise not only meets all these requirements but also impresses ASICS with its flexibility to work seamlessly in a small-scale commercial SOC environment and the capability to go live within a short timeframe with a small investment.
