Case Study: Leading Energy Company achieves real-time SCADA visibility and faster security investigations with Splunk Enterprise

Supporting SCADA Systems to Secure Pipeline

A leading midstream energy company that operates roughly 50,000 miles of U.S. pipeline relied on complex SCADA systems and thousands of aging field devices (PLCs/RTUs) communicating over multiple protocols. Fragmented in‑house and vendor tools left operators unable to correlate endpoint messages, sensor data and SCADA events, hampering visibility, troubleshooting and compliance with PHMSA availability requirements.

By deploying Splunk Enterprise the company gained real‑time visibility across tens of thousands of endpoints, correlating sensor, application and infrastructure logs to power alerts, reporting and rapid investigations. The result: faster incident response (security investigations cut from ~12 hours to ~1 hour), improved SCADA stability and uptime (supporting revenue), better regulatory tracking, and plans to extend Splunk across more industrial systems.