Case Study: Equinix achieves unified security visibility and 30% faster incident response with Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise Security

Innovative Cloud-Based SIEM Deployment Delivers Actionable Security Intelligence for Equinix

Equinix, a global interconnection and datacenter company operating in 33 markets across five continents, needed centralized security visibility. Its multi-faceted security infrastructure generated more than 30 billion raw security events per month but lacked a unified SIEM, forcing time‑consuming manual extraction and correlation that limited the security team’s effectiveness.

Equinix deployed Splunk Cloud with Splunk Enterprise Security as a cloud SIEM to aggregate and analyze data from firewalls, IDS/IPS, AD, servers and SaaS sources. The solution reduced 30 billion events to about 24,000 indicators of compromise and just 20 actionable alerts, cut TCO by ~50%, sped incident response by 30%, enhanced overall security posture and provided the foundation for a planned SOC, with dashboards used by security, operations and executives.

Equinix

George Do

CISO