Case Study: SMS Masterminds achieves enhanced security and major cost savings with Splunk Light (Splunk)

SMS Masterminds Enhances Security, Improves System Functionality with Splunk Light Cloud Service

SMS Masterminds (SpendSmart Networks, Inc.), a digital loyalty and text-message marketing company with over five million subscribers and thousands of retail customers, needed real-time visibility to detect and mitigate security events and exploits—especially brute-force attacks—but lacked the budget for costly on‑premises solutions and wanted better insight into system functionality.

By adopting Splunk Light as a cloud service, the team implemented preventative monitoring, real-time alerts, and easy log analysis across systems (MySQL, Apache, PHP, Symfony, Passenger), enabling rapid error resolution, improved QA, and new precautionary features; the result was an enhanced security posture, improved user experience, and operating-cost savings measured in the tens of thousands of dollars.

SMS Masterminds

Louis Camassa

VP of Product