Case Study: University of East Anglia achieves PCI DSS compliance and lower SIEM migration costs with NXLog

NXLog helps the University of East Anglia meet PCI compliance and minimize SIEM migration costs

The University of East Anglia needed to improve its security posture and achieve PCI DSS compliance by establishing a unified log collection pipeline. The challenge was to aggregate security events from a diverse set of endpoints, including hundreds of Windows and Linux servers and various network appliances, all with different log formats. They addressed this by deploying NXLog Enterprise Edition.

NXLog provided a centralized, autonomous log collection solution. It was configured to forward filtered security events to a SIEM for monitoring while simultaneously sending all unfiltered logs to cold storage for long-term retention. This approach not only improved the university’s security posture and achieved compliance but also minimized SIEM migration costs by making the switch between monitoring platforms easy. The university was impressed with NXLog's reliability and excellent customer service.

University of East Anglia

Andrew Dixon

Operational IT Security Manager