Case Study: Cardiff County Council achieves GCSX & CoCo compliance, faster reporting and improved network performance analysis with LogRhythm

Cardiff County Council LogRhythm Combines GCSX and CoCo Compliance with Improved Reporting and Enhanced Network Performance Analysis

Cardiff County Council, which serves about 320,000 residents and employs roughly 18,000 people, needed to meet the UK Government Connect Secure Extranet (GCSX) and Code of Connection (CoCo) requirements for log data. Its existing manual, decentralized log process was complex and time-consuming, making compliance, auditing and network visibility difficult.

The council implemented LogRhythm’s integrated hardware and software log management solution to centrally collect and enrich logs from Active Directory, Exchange, VPN, Citrix, two‑factor authentication and firewall systems. This delivered flexible search, fast automated reporting and real‑time alerts, enabling CoCo/GCSX compliance, cutting daily audit time, improving data‑centre visibility and network performance analysis, and opening opportunities to extend monitoring to PCI DSS and internet logs.

Cardiff County Council

Andrew Horner Seddon

Principal IT Consultant Security