Case Study: U.S. Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command (NCDOC) achieves automated, centralized security monitoring with NetIQ Sentinel

NCDOC - Customer Case Study

The U.S. Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command (NCDOC), a 180-person team charged with securing hundreds of Navy networks worldwide, faced severe data overload from a rapidly growing number of sensors that produced tens of thousands of events and alerts daily. With insufficient staff to manually analyze that volume—an effort the Navy estimated would have required thousands more analysts—NCDOC needed a vendor‑agnostic, scalable automated monitoring solution to centralize and prioritize security activity across dispersed environments from ships to regional bases.

NCDOC built the PROMETHEUS suite using the SAS Intelligence Platform for data warehousing and NetIQ Sentinel as the centralized security‑event management front end to aggregate logs, present a unified dashboard, and prioritize alerts. The deployment automated monitoring for thousands of sensors, enabled real‑time, customizable views and reporting, eliminated single points of failure, and reduced reporting time from weeks or months to minutes or hours—allowing the team to focus quickly on the most critical threats.

NCDOC

Jim Granger

Director of Capabilities and Readiness