Case Study: Durham County Council achieves 50% cost savings, improved compliance and broader SIEM usage with LogPoint

Durham County Council - Customer Case Study

Durham County Council, a UK local authority serving over 500,000 residents and employing 18,000 staff, needed to replace its previous SIEM after serious data losses and high vendor costs undermined compliance requirements (PSN, NHS IG Toolkit, HSCIC, PCI DSS, BACS). The council selected LogPoint as the replacement SIEM to restore data integrity, meet accreditation obligations, and reduce total cost of ownership.

LogPoint’s per-node pricing and easy-to-use platform allowed Durham County Council to ingest far more logs, expand coverage to more than 140 devices, and open the system to wider ICT teams (including the service desk). The move cut costs by almost 50%, automated compliance reporting, resolved the prior data-loss issues, increased productivity through broader deployment and contextual visibility, and enabled proactive alerting and containment capabilities.

Durham County Council

Paul Woods

Information Security Officer