Case Study: OmniSOC (Big Ten universities' shared SOC) achieves high-speed threat detection and rapid mitigation with Elastic

OmniSOC High Speed Threat Detection at the Big Ten

OmniSOC is a collaborative cybersecurity operations center launched by five Big Ten universities led by Indiana University (IU) to protect students, faculty, and staff across large, campus-scale networks. Facing the challenge of detecting and responding to breaches quickly across hundreds of thousands of devices—and shortening the long industry median dwell time—these institutions needed a shared, real-time analytics platform and coordinated threat intelligence.

OmniSOC deployed the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash, plus security, alerting, and machine learning) to ingest, correlate, and analyze massive telemetry from member campuses and deliver rapid, actionable intelligence. The result is far faster threat detection and mitigation—enabling a single engineer to search and investigate large datasets in minutes—while providing a scalable foundation for expanded membership and future use cases like archival search and NOC logging.

OmniSOC

Tom Davis

Founding Director and CISO