Splunk empowers public sector agencies with real-time visibility, operational intelligence, and cybersecurity resilience across complex IT environments.
Trusted by federal, state, and local governments, Splunk’s data platform helps agencies harness machine data to detect threats, ensure mission continuity, and meet compliance mandates such as FISMA, NIST, and Zero Trust Architecture. By enabling advanced analytics, automation, and proactive monitoring, Splunk accelerates decision-making and enhances operational efficiency—supporting critical missions from cybersecurity operations centers (CSOCs) to civilian digital services. With FedRAMP-authorized solutions and deep integrations across multicloud and hybrid architectures, Splunk equips government leaders with the tools to turn data into action—safely, securely, and at scale.
ThunderCat and Splunk Working Together
Challenge
Cybersecurity visibility across over 100 geographically dispersed sites
A federal energy customer with numerous sites across the country needed a cyber security solution that could meet the individual demands of local sites, while also allowing data to rollup to provide security oversight and visibility at the national level, for both Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) systems. This not only meets federal regulatory compliance, but assures coordination and consistent cyber security posture across the diverse use cases within this organization.
Solution
A platform approach to security operations
ThunderCat Technology led the design, and assisted with the deployment of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) solutions to form the backbone of a robust cybersecurity program, at both the site and oversight level. ThunderCat works hand-in-hand with customers to demo and POC features specific to the unique needs of sites, as well as right size architectures and deployments to fit those needs. ThunderCat’s background in IT and OT solutions equips them to solve the unique challenges of this organization. Splunk Enterprise, at its core, acts as a massive data ingestion and analysis engine, centralizing logs, metrics, and events from every corner of the organization – from corporate IT networks, cloud applications, and remote offices to critical industrial control systems (ICS), and SCADA networks. This unified data platform eliminates data silos, providing a single pane of glass for real-time visibility into the entire organization ecosystem, enabling security teams to monitor, troubleshoot, and analyze performance across diverse systems and locations.
Building upon this foundation, Splunk ES transforms raw data into actionable security intelligence. This is critical for safeguarding both IT assets (like email servers and corporate data) and highly sensitive OT systems (like power generation, transmission, and distribution equipment). Splunk ES provides pre-built dashboards, correlation searches, and risk-based alerting tailored to detect sophisticated threats, including those targeting industrial protocols and proprietary systems. It helps identify anomalies in operational processes, unauthorized access to critical infrastructure, and potential breaches attempting to bridge the IT/OT divide.
Outcome
Distributed but unified security across multiple sites and types of systems
ThunderCat and Splunk allowed the organization to achieve a unified, scalable, and intelligent solution to gain comprehensive visibility into their security posture, rapidly detect and respond to threats, automate security operations, and meet compliance requirements across all of their distributed sites. Splunk Enterprise and Enterprise Security were transformative across IT and OT environments. Allowing the customer to achieve unprecedented, real-time visibility into their entire operational footprint, regardless of location and system type.
