ArcSight Case Study: Companion Data Services
| Summary: | Companion Data Services (CDS) needed a more efficient way to monitor system event logs. They sought a centralized log repository and an efficient method to sift through the millions of events generated each day. |
| Business Challenge: |
CDS is a premier source for data center hosting, specializing in healthcare. They have four major data centers and lines of business, and each has different regulations they have to comply with. To handle all the logging and event storage requirements, CDS figured they would need 16 terabytes of storage per year, and at one point were spending a quarter million dollars on backup tapes alone. |
| Solution: | With ArcSight ESM, CDS is able to quickly correlate data and identify suspicious security events before serious incidents arise. ArcSight Logger obviates the need for costly backup servers, resulting in a tremendous savings. |
| Benefits: | The ArcSight ESM and ArcSight Logger solution give CDS total coverage and a holistic view of their network. One of the biggest benefits of ArcSight ESM is the savings from hiring additional staff that would have been necessary to manage security events. Plus, CDS security engineers actually feel like engineers again, and not like log junkies constantly buried under a deluge of events. CDS also uses ArcSight Logger to correlate data for local reporting, and then send pertinent events back to ArcSight ESM - and that greatly reduces traffic as well as the requirement on database storage. |
