Splunk SIEM — Security Intelligence and Compliance
Your security tools generate thousands of events every day. SentinelOne detects endpoint threats. N-able RMM monitors your infrastructure. Microsoft 365 logs every authentication and email event. Without a platform to correlate, analyse, and act on this data, critical threats hide in the noise. Splunk Enterprise Security is the intelligence layer that transforms raw security logs into actionable insight and automated compliance evidence.
Market-leading SIEM. Now part of Cisco.
Security Data Without Intelligence Is Just Noise
Every endpoint, every server, every application, every network device in your environment generates security data. SentinelOne flags threats. N-able RMM logs patch status. Microsoft 365 records authentication events. Azure monitors cloud workloads.
Individually, each tool does its job. But threats do not respect tool boundaries. A compromised credential in M365 leads to lateral movement detected by SentinelOne, followed by data exfiltration visible only in network logs. Without correlation, you see three unrelated alerts. With Splunk, you see one attack.
Splunk Enterprise Security
Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) is the market-leading SIEM platform, now backed by Cisco. It ingests data from across your entire technology stack, correlates events in real time, and surfaces threats that individual tools miss.
Risk-Based Alerting
Traditional SIEMs drown analysts in alerts. Splunk ES uses risk-based alerting to assign risk scores to users and assets based on multiple low-fidelity signals. Instead of thousands of individual alerts, your security team sees a prioritised list of high-risk entities that require investigation.
MITRE ATT&CK Framework Detections
Splunk maps detections directly to the MITRE ATT&CK framework — the industry-standard taxonomy for adversary tactics and techniques. Every detection tells you not just what happened, but where it fits in the attacker's playbook.
Mission Control Dashboard
The SOC dashboard provides a unified view of your security posture — active threats, risk scores, pending investigations, and compliance status. One screen. Complete visibility.
Splunk SOAR
Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) transforms how your organisation responds to security incidents.
Automated Investigation Playbooks
When Splunk detects a threat, SOAR automatically executes investigation workflows — enriching alerts with context, querying threat intelligence, and correlating related events. Investigation time drops from hours to minutes.
Incident Response Automation
Pre-built and custom playbooks automate incident response actions — isolating compromised endpoints, disabling compromised accounts, blocking malicious IPs, and notifying stakeholders. Repeatable, consistent, and fully documented.
AI-Powered Security Operations
Splunk's AI capabilities are transforming security operations:
AI Playbook Authoring
Describe what you want to investigate in natural language. Splunk AI translates your intent into automated SOAR playbooks. No coding required.
AI-Enhanced Detection Library
AI generates and refines detection rules automatically, keeping pace with evolving threats. Production-ready detections created in minutes, not days.
Personalised Detection SPL Generator
AI creates customised detection queries tailored to your specific environment and threat landscape.
Compliance Dashboards
For regulated industries — financial services, healthcare, government — compliance reporting is mandatory and time-consuming. Splunk automates it.
Pre-Built Compliance Frameworks
- POPIA — data protection and privacy compliance evidence
- PCI-DSS — payment card industry security standard reporting
- FSCA — Financial Sector Conduct Authority requirements
- HIPAA — healthcare data protection compliance
- SARB — South African Reserve Bank regulatory reporting
Automated Audit Evidence
Compliance dashboards generate audit evidence automatically. Proof that controls are working. Proof that policies are enforced. Proof that incidents are investigated and resolved. Audit preparation reduced from weeks to hours.
Security Stack Integration
Splunk does not work in isolation. It integrates with your entire security stack:
- SentinelOne — endpoint detection and response events correlated with network and identity data
- Microsoft 365 — authentication events, email threats, and compliance logs ingested and analysed
- Azure — cloud workload security events and infrastructure monitoring
- N-able RMM — patch compliance, device health, and infrastructure events
- Hundreds more — native integrations via Splunkbase for virtually every security and IT tool
Every security tool in your environment feeds into one platform. No blind spots. No data silos.
Federated Search
Search all your security data from a single interface — regardless of where it is stored. Splunk's federated search queries across security and operational data without moving data between platforms. One search. All your data.
Key Capabilities
- Enterprise Security (SIEM) — risk-based alerting, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, mission control dashboard
- SOAR — automated investigation playbooks and incident response workflows
- AI-powered detection — playbook authoring, detection generation, and personalised SPL queries
- Compliance dashboards — POPIA, PCI-DSS, FSCA, HIPAA, and SARB reporting
- Federated search — unified search across all security and operational data
- Security stack integration — native connectors for SentinelOne, M365, Azure, and hundreds more
Delivered as a Managed Service by OAS
Splunk is a powerful platform that requires expertise to deploy and manage effectively. OAS provides:
- Deployment and configuration — Splunk Cloud or Splunk Enterprise, deployed and tuned for your environment
- Data source integration — connecting your security tools to Splunk for complete visibility
- Detection tuning — custom detection rules tailored to your threat landscape and industry
- Compliance reporting — dashboards configured for your specific regulatory requirements
- Managed SOC operations — for organisations requiring 24/7 security monitoring and incident response
- Ongoing optimisation — query performance, data retention, and cost management
Recognition
- Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for SIEM — consistently rated as the market leader
- Now part of Cisco — backed by Cisco's network security telemetry and Talos threat intelligence
From Logs to Intelligence
Your security tools protect your environment. Splunk tells you whether that protection is working. It transforms thousands of daily events into prioritised threats, automated responses, and auditable compliance evidence. For enterprise and regulated organisations, Splunk is not optional — it is the intelligence layer that makes everything else visible.