Higher Education
What Campus Networks Need Today
Educational institutions are particularly vulnerable to security threats given their open network architectures and the sheer number of users they serve across different delivery channels on and off campus. They’re also expected to meet multiple regulatory requirements and standards like PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley, FERPA and HIPAA, which only adds to the demands placed on the IT infrastructure.
Splunk® software helps you:
- Collect and index all your machine data to enable end-to-end situational awareness
- Gain better visibility into IT operations and data requirements for regulations and mandates
- Monitor networks in higher education to ensure cost-effective security, compliance and risk mitigation
- Support ad hoc reporting and real-time monitoring of incidents and attacks so security teams can be more proactive in responding to threats
- Drive down costs for more effective operations and better decisions at the educational institution as a whole
Value of Higher Education and Splunk
Find out how Splunk software increases efficiency at two major public universities: University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Arizona State University. Learn why the Splunk platform for Operational Intelligence meets the unique challenges and needs of today's universities.
Higher Education Use Cases
Detecting Network Abuse
College campuses strive to be places where information can be shared in an open and widespread fashion and the IT infrastructure helps make this possible. Splunk software can help detect patterns of network abuse in real time by correlating machine data across a wide variety of sources.
Enhancing Campus Services
Campuses can gain insight into key issues and metrics across their applications and IT infrastructure by using Splunk software to index, search and analyze data. With Splunk software, you can easily perform end-to-end transaction tracking across all the systems that are touched by students, faculty or staff.
Splunk at Adelaide University
"Previously it could take hours to extract and analyze logs to identify security issues, now it can be measured in minutes. Splunk software has given us the highest degree of certainty in meeting our immediate and future security needs."
-Information Security Specialist, Information Technology Services
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Splunk at University of Texas at Austin
"We use Splunk software daily and it's critical to our operations. It makes us better equipped to detect new anomalies and respond to them quickly. Without it, we would be far less effective—I'm sure of that."
-Cam Beasley, CISO, Information Security Office
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Splunk at American University of Sharjah
“Splunk software can index any data and help you to create meaningful reports for any situation. I have learned to throw as much data as possible at Splunk software. The more you use it, the more value you get from it.”
-Will Froning, Systems Architect
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Splunk at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“We are using Splunk Enterprise to identify and solve some of our biggest operational challenges and make critical operational decisions. From our admins to our CIO, we rely on the Splunk platform to make huge volumes of data meaningful to our decision makers at every level.”
-Patrick Casey, Manager, Middleware Services
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