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This collection of use cases for the Splunk platform provides insights specifically for energy and utility customers. Energy companies rely on Splunk to deal with growing cybersecurity threats to critical infrastructure and to ensure the performance and reliability of critical business services. By providing real-time monitoring and threat detection, enhancing operational efficiency, and facilitating compliance, Splunk helps streamline grid modernization, foster sustainability, and ensure the safety and resilience of energy systems.
For more advanced implementations, visit our use case explorers for premium solutions: The Use Case Explorer for Security and Use Case Explorer for Observability.
For more resources on how energy organizations use Splunk software, see Energy solutions or Splunk Edge Hub Central.
Use cases for energy
- Detecting Operational Technology assets communicating with external systems
- You can use the Splunk platform to run searches to detect an OT asset communicating with external systems successfully (inbound or outbound).
- Monitoring common Operational Technology protocol ports
- Identification of industrial protocols can help organizations to identify the nature of traffic, and could be useful in detecting unauthorized communication to an OT device.
- Monitoring ingress and egress traffic across Operational Technology perimeters
- By closely monitoring ingress and egress traffic through OT security perimeters, organizations can gain valuable insights and identify potential threats.
- Monitoring remote access to Operational Technology environments
- Learn how to monitor for remote access security breaches to prevent production shutdowns, data loss, and safety risks in Operational Technology environments.
- Monitoring removable media devices in Operational Technology environments
- Learn to monitor for security breaches caused by a connected removable media device to prevent significant financial loss, data theft, and operational disruption.
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