Case Study: AZL achieves real-time transaction visibility and faster compliance reporting with Splunk

Increased Visibility Improves Security at Pension Fund Management Firm

AZL, a Netherlands-based pension fund manager and subsidiary of Nationale Nederlanden/ING, oversees more than 60 funds and 550,000 participants. The firm’s small security team needed better visibility to meet strict security and compliance requirements: a manual, error-prone monthly SAS70 report that took 20–24 hours, delayed daily transaction reports that were at least 24 hours old, and slow, labor-intensive incident investigations.

AZL deployed Splunk Enterprise to collect and index machine data, build real-time dashboards, and automate reporting. The result: SAS70 report time dropped from about 24 hours to 4 hours, fund-transfer status is visible in real time to operations staff, and security investigations are faster and more proactive—improving compliance, ensuring accurate transfers, and enabling earlier detection of security issues.

AZL

Wessel Landzaat

Information Security Manager