Case Study: University of Dayton achieves real-time threat detection and faster PCI compliance with NetIQ Sentinel Log Manager

University of Dayton - Customer Case Study

The University of Dayton, a private Catholic university serving about 12,000 students and 3,000 faculty, faced a growing security and compliance challenge: its diverse computing environment produced a centralized but unmanageable volume of log data, and IT lacked real-time analysis and reporting tools needed for PCI compliance and timely threat detection—despite logging roughly three million security events a day.

The IT team deployed NetIQ Sentinel and Sentinel Log Manager (integrated with Identity Manager, Access Manager and eDirectory) to aggregate, analyze and correlate events across systems. The solution provides real-time alerts, identity-based event correlation, custom dashboards and near-instant audits, cutting investigation time by up to 90%, improving PCI reporting and delivering strong security visibility while quickly paying for itself in reduced administrative effort.

University of Dayton

Randy Hardin

Lead Systems Engineer