Case Study: Maastricht University saves weeks of manpower and boosts security with Splunk

Maastricht University Saves Weeks of Manpower and Delivers Improved Services

Maastricht University, a top‑100 public university in the Netherlands, struggled to investigate security incidents across nearly 400 disparate IT systems and 50,000 email users. Frequent phishing attacks and slow troubleshooting led to mail servers being blacklisted and required a solution that could handle gigabytes of machine‑generated data per day.

UM deployed Splunk Enterprise to centralize VPN, web, firewall, AD and other logs, giving sysadmins a single search and alerting layer for anomaly detection and rapid investigation. The result: immediate identification and resolution of incidents, weeks of manpower saved, far fewer blacklisting events, better visibility into IT health (including patching) and improved service for staff and students.

Maastricht University