Splunk enables us to get the most out of data to evolve our security initiatives and remain resilient against cybersecurity challenges.
To achieve its goal to automate DevSecOps, the company needed a way to guard against potentially devastating cybersecurity threats while cost-effectively visualizing and analyzing all its data — including dark data, the unused, unknown and untapped data across the organization. Since turning to the Splunk platform, au Kabucom Securities has:
Massive in scale and difficult to monitor without the right tools, machine-generated log data can quickly become overwhelming — and expensive. “In the early days, we engaged a managed SIEM service,” says Yoichi Ishikawa, assistant executive to general managing officer of system, system development department and deputy general manager, IT strategy group at au Kabucom Securities. “As log data increased, our costs surged exponentially. Worse still, we couldn’t see our log data firsthand. Since data was outsourced for analysis, we only received notifications for identified anomalies. We needed a more proactive approach.”
Security was another top priority for the organization. “Although we have a cybersecurity task force to monitor risks, a DDoS outbreak in 2017 revealed the need for stronger defense and greater information transparency across the company,” says Ishikawa. “Before we could embrace DevSecOps by incorporating security into development and operation, we had to first analyze the dark data that we’d been generating, but not properly leveraging.”
To harness the value of all its data while bolstering security, au Kabucom Securities turned to the Splunk platform.
Splunk enables us to get the most out of data to evolve our security initiatives and remain resilient against cybersecurity challenges.