Tag: Public Sector

What is Splunk and why does the public sector need Splunk? Find our more in this summary for UK public sector

We are pleased to announce that Splunk has achieved U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Provisional Authorization by the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) at Impact Level 5 (IL5), which allows U.S. Government agencies to use Splunk Cloud Platform for higher sensitivity Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).

The Office of Management and Budget’s memo mandates a maturity model for event log management, sets agency implementation requirements, and establishes government-wide responsibilities.

Splunk welcomes the roll out of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) as a significant step forward in leveraging collaborative data and defense to battle cyber attacks from criminal organizations and nation states.

The standardization of information system logs across the federal government may take time, but it is a critical component to improving investigative and remediation capabilities.

Public sector organisations are in the middle of a massive digital transformation. This transformation also opens new avenues for cyberthreats and expands the attack surface. The traditional approach is to collect data at the rapidly eroding perimeter, subsequently ignoring users as they continue into the network. Zero-trust architectures require government departments to continuously monitor, detect, evaluate, and enforce policy as users move about the network.

Explore the industry trends and insights that align with the DoD’s goals and objectives in part two of this two-part series.

Discover how the Splunk Data-to-Everything Platform has enabled public organizations to advance their cloud and modernization strategies to keep up with citizens’ evolving needs and expectations.

Explore the industry trends and insights that align with the DoD’s goals and objectives in part one of this two-part series.