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AT&T Reports Immediate ROI Using Splunk Security

Introduction

This case study of AT&T Inc. is based on an August 2022 survey of Splunk customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Splunk has enhanced our business processes allowing us visibility into problems and issues that we never had been able to see before Splunk was implemented.” — Christopher Oneto, Engineer, AT&T Inc.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Splunk:

Why their organizations implemented Splunk:
- Enabling evolving initiatives while reducing agency risk through end-to-end visibility and tools for auditing
- Improving threat detection, investigation and response capabilities
- Streamlining operations to strengthen organizational security posture

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Splunk that the surveyed company uses:

The Splunk features/capabilities that have been the most valuable to their organization:
- Advanced threat detection
- Application modernization
- Compliance and data privacy
- Data optimization
- DevOps
- Incident investigation and forensics
- Incident response
- Insider threat detection
- IT modernization
- SOC automation and orchestration
How the organization is using Splunk:
- Advanced threat detection
- Application modernization
- Compliance and data privacy
- Data optimization
- DevOps
- Incident investigation and forensics
- Incident response
- Insider threat detection
- IT modernization
- SOC automation and orchestration
Rates Splunk as superior compared to other cloud solutions.

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Splunk:

The benefits the organization has experienced since using Splunk:
- Enhanced end-to-end visibility
- Enhanced SOC efficiency and productivity
- Improved threat detection, investigation and response capabilities
- Reduced mean time to repair (MTTR)
They agree with the following statements since using Splunk:
- Splunk delivers visibility into what is happening across complex agency operating environments.
- Splunk provides enhanced security awareness through optimized and centralized security operations.
- Splunk allows agencies to create flexible and trusted computing environments that reduce infrastructure requirements, focus on deriving value from organizational data, enhance IT service delivery and improve customer experiences.
- Splunk has improved my threat detection, investigation and response capabilities.
They saw a return on their investment with Splunk immediately.
Rates significant improvements in the following areas since using Splunk:
- enhanced end-to-end visibility
- enhanced SOC efficiency and productivity
- improved threat detection, investigation and response capabilities:
- reduced mean time to repair (MTTR)

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AT&T Reports Immediate ROI Using Splunk Security

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