Case Study: Forschungszentrum Jülich accelerates problem identification and strengthens security and compliance with Splunk Enterprise

Forschungszentrum Jülich Accelerates Problem Identification and Increases Efficiency

Forschungszentrum Jülich, a Helmholtz research center with over 5,500 staff and a large campus IT environment that includes the Jülich Supercomputing Center and the JUQUEEN supercomputer, struggled with fragmented log data across diverse authorization systems and thousands of devices. The lack of a centralized log repository made security and network analysis slow and resource-intensive, hindered access control, and complicated compliance and correlation of events.

By deploying Splunk Enterprise, Jülich quickly centralized and correlated logs, implemented role-based access, and automated alerting and reporting—processing more than 2,000 syslog messages per second. The change shortened mean time to investigate and resolve incidents, improved vulnerability detection and regulatory compliance, and delivered measurable time and cost savings for security and operations teams.

Julich Forschungszentrum

Egon Grünter

Communications Systems Division