One of the undoubted cybersecurity success stories of the last few years has been Splunk. So successful that Cisco, the dominant player in the enterprise networking market, paid $28 billion to buy it in September 2023. Splunk is essentially a big data platform that simplifies the collection and management of massive volumes of machine-generated data, and the ability to search for information within it and is best known for helping businesses manage the huge volumes of cybersecurity alerts. Splunk’s subscription-based revenue is estimated at $4 billion annually, so is arguably the leader in this Enterprise Security space.  

However, newer players such as Anomali, an AI-Powered Security and IT Operations Platform, offer an intriguing option for Splunk Enterprise Security customers. Ampito is now an Anomali partner, so we can provide customers with comprehensive visibility, speed, AI capabilities, and world-class threat intelligence in an easy-to-use integrated platform. 

Why is this important?  

Well, by combining Anomali with Splunk, an organisation can access several significant benefits that enhance an organization’s cybersecurity capabilities, as well as making savings from their Splunk bill.  

1. Supercharged search speed: By augmenting Splunk with Anomali, businesses can search petabytes of data in seconds, eliminating delays caused by Splunk’s tiered storage system. This dramatic improvement in search speed is crucial for rapid threat detection and response and provides long term visibility across the IT environment at a fraction of the cost of other solutions, including Splunk. 
2. Access to more of your data: Legacy SIEMs typically can only ingest about 1to 2 millions of Indicators Of Compromise (IOCs) before needing to overwrite past data.  However, the Anomali Platform has no limitations when it comes to correlating security data with existing threat intelligence. By providing access to all your  data when you need it, along with the ability to collect, search, and store 7+ years of data economically in hot storage with Anomali Security Data Lake, you can reduce the amount of Splunk data you are paying for. 
3. Empowered cybersecurity teams: Anomali’s AI-powered platform with natural language processing enables junior analysts to perform like experts. This capability reduces investigation time from 44 minutes to under 40 seconds, significantly improving operational efficiency. This provides lightning-Fast speed and scale with natural language processing (NLP) that translates questions into powerful, correlated queries across years and petabytes of data in seconds. 
4. Enhanced Threat Intelligence: Anomali provides access to more than 200 intelligence feeds, offering comprehensive visibility into emerging threats and dormant attacks. This vast array of threat intelligence sources greatly expands Splunk’s threat detection capabilities. 
5. Simplified Operations: Anomali’s cloud-native, serverless, and agentless architecture allows for cost-efficient scalability and rapid threat response, streamlining security operations when integrated with Splunk. 
6.  Improved Correlation and Analysis: The Anomali ThreatStream integration with Splunk enables organizations to ingest and correlate threat data, enhancing security monitoring and threat detection capabilities. This integration allows for more sophisticated analysis of potential security risks. 
7. Enhanced Incident Response: The Anomali ThreatStream App for Splunk empowers Splunk users to leverage threat intelligence to detect, prioritise, and respond to security incidents more effectively. This integration streamlines the incident response process, allowing security teams to act more quickly and decisively. 

By combining Anomali’s advanced threat intelligence and AI capabilities with Splunk’s robust data analytics and security information and event management (SIEM) features, we are seeing that Ampito customers can significantly enhance their overall cybersecurity posture, improve threat detection and response times, and make more informed security decisions. While reducing your Splunk bill.  

Contact marketing@ampito.com to learn more.