Case Study: Sierra-Cedar achieves real-time threat detection, operational risk reduction, and major cost savings with Splunk

Splunk at Sierra-Cedar Managing Operational Risk for Maximum Reward

Sierra-Cedar, an Atlanta-based managed services and ERP consulting firm, supports more than 700 Oracle/PeopleSoft ERP environments and accompanying databases across diverse client domains. The variety of configurations and multi-domain authentication made traditional SIEMs unable to ingest, parse or provide context for Oracle/PeopleSoft logs—requiring costly, time-consuming custom work and leaving the firm without a unified, real-time view of risk.

Sierra-Cedar deployed Splunk Enterprise with the Splunk App for Enterprise Security plus the Asset Discovery app and NMAP to centralize monitoring, real-time threat detection, asset discovery, compliance reporting and custom dashboards. The solution delivered continuous operational and security visibility, reduced downtime, and avoided more than $200K in SIEM consulting/custom connector costs and $20K+ in vulnerability management licensing while providing the flexibility and role-based controls needed for diverse client environments.

Sierra-Cedar

Dan Frye

Senior VP of Corporate Security