Case Study: Interac (Canada's national debit network) achieves faster security response and reduced IT costs with Splunk

Splunk Enables Security and Improves Business Performance for the Interac® Organization

Interac Association and Acxsys Corporation — which operate Canada’s national debit network and related payment services — faced a complex, heterogeneous IT environment with no centralized way to collect or correlate monitoring and security data. Investigations into potential security incidents and operational problems were manual, slow and labor-intensive, often taking days and involving many staff, which limited situational awareness and slowed responses.

By deploying Splunk as a unified operational-intelligence platform, Interac centralized machine-data collection, enabled real-time correlation and alerts, and empowered a small team to build apps for security, storage and application monitoring. The result was dramatically faster incident analysis and resolution, improved Dev/Ops collaboration, and tangible savings: elimination of large manual efforts (annualized productivity gains in the order of $0.5M), storage and process efficiencies ($25K and $58.5K per year respectively), and a total annual hard ROI of roughly $584K, along with better business continuity and ongoing operational visibility.

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