Case Study: Nittany Oil achieves PCI DSS compliance and stronger network visibility with Blumira

Nittany Oil - Customer Case Study

Nittany Oil, a Central Pennsylvania oil and energy distributor with about 200 employees, needed an affordable way to improve network visibility, retain logs, and meet PCI DSS compliance requirements. With only one person primarily dedicated to security, the team wanted a SIEM solution that was easy to deploy, manage, and maintain day to day. Blumira was selected as the vendor, with its cloud SIEM platform and log retention capabilities fitting their needs.

Blumira implemented a platform that centralized log alerts, provided threat detection and response, and retained security event logs for up to one year to support PCI DSS audit trail requirements. Nittany Oil also integrated Blumira with tools like Sophos, Windows Server, Active Directory, Proofpoint, and Cisco Meraki, gaining better visibility, prioritized detections, and guided playbooks for response. The company reported smoother deployment, useful daily reporting, and improved asset discovery, while noting Blumira was at least 50% more affordable than other solutions they evaluated.

Nittany Oil

Ethan Shutika

Director of IT and Security