Attendees of this webinar and live demonstration discovered how over 750 higher education institutions are using Splunk for cybersecurity, improving student experience, and to mine data strategically in order to help improve student performance and graduation rates.
Today's educational institutions face challenges that place ever-increasing demands on their technology infrastructure. Enrollment at many institutions continues to fluctuate, while budgets at many schools are flat or declining, making getting the most out of their technology investments essential. Since most campuses adopt open network infrastructures, network abuse and security threats can start anywhere, which drives the need for security teams to be proactive instead of reactive.
Splunk platform has enabled educational institutions to read data from just about any source imaginable, including student registration systems, learning management systems, networks, web servers, log files, firewall data, remote sensors, mobile and online learning applications, legacy applications, application servers, and structured databases.
Attendees joined Jon Prictoe, Splunk SE at Carahsoft, and Ross Zidar, Network Engineer at Washtenaw Community College, to learn how higher education institutions are leveraging Splunk software to:
- Identify problems, risks, and opportunities to drive lower cost and provide more effective operations
- Detect security risks and network abuse
- Improve student and faculty experience across all systems used
- Manage and monitor machine data from multiple sources
- Collect and audit data to meet regulatory requirements