ManpowerGroup’s Unique Approach to Resilience with Splunk

As AI continues to proliferate and more people get highly skilled, safeguarding systems and data is getting increasingly complex. It’s no longer a question of ‘IF’ you are going to be breached but ‘WHEN’. Therefore, it is essential to establish digital resilience by ensuring comprehensive visibility and breaking down silos, to promptly detect and resolve issues. To dive deeper into this, Daniel Newman, CEO of The Futurum Group sat down with Randy Herold, CISO & Chief Privacy Office of ManpowerGroup in this Tech Webcast: Unifying Security and Observability: ManpowerGroup’s Unique Approach to Cyber Resilience with Splunk.

For ManpowerGroup, being resilient is about putting people to work and keeping client businesses running. ManpowerGroup is a people-driven staffing company that puts over 500,000 associates to work each day — an astounding number, considering the ripple effect created by over half a million people having meaningful and sustainable employment. Serving customers and employers in over 70 global territories, ManpowerGroup maintains a hometown feel, centering its mission around doing well by doing good. 

One of the key focal points in this webcast was about the critical role of visibility in mitigating cyber risks. As businesses and AI technologies continue to evolve and diversify, Daniel and Randy highlighted the inherent complexities in trying to stay informed, assess risk and identify threats quickly. At ManpowerGroup, maintaining cyber resilience was complex, challenging and expensive with manual routines that took time away from mission-critical work. Instant visibility into data with Splunk supported better decision-making for risk mitigation. Using Splunk, ManpowerGroup was able to deliver key metrics to senior leadership in 1 hour, down from 60+ hours previously!

In the current economy, organizations across industries are cost-sensitive and are looking to do tool consolidation. Security, ITOps and engineering teams are increasingly asked to do more with less, even as the complexity of systems and volume of incidents continues to grow. With Splunk, Manpower Group was able to obtain instant access to data, compared with 30 days previously, that supported better decision-making across teams. In this vein, Randy Herold encourages organizations to stop thinking about Splunk as a security tool and instead as a decision-making tool that can be used by everyone. “With Splunk, we’re all playing from the same sheet of music,” says Mike Friedel, Director of Global Security, ManpowerGroup.  

Tune in to the webcast and read more about ManpowerGroup’s story to gain a deeper understanding of cybersecurity challenges in the age of AI, and discover how Splunk can help pave the way for a more secure digital future. Furthermore, check out all the ways you can learn and adopt Splunk on your own — or get expert assistance from professional services as you chart your path to greater digital resilience.