Case Study: Research University reduces MTTD and strengthens security visibility with Splunk

Research University reduces MTTD by 60% with Splunk

The customer, a research university, faced significant security challenges with fragmented dashboards on its academic campus and an inability to correlate logs in its health system. Both teams needed to improve threat detection to protect critical research and medical data. To address this, they implemented Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) to gain a unified view.

Splunk provided a single pane of glass for both security teams, enabling rapid correlation of events and risk-based alerting. The solution led to a dramatic 60% reduction in mean time to detect (MTTD) and a 40% decrease in ticket investigation times. Splunk also helped secure hundreds of previously unmanaged endpoints, providing clear compliance reporting and a stronger overall security posture for the university.