Challenge A federal law-enforcement agency faced a big challenge. It had to respond to ever-changing reporting requests from its auditors in order to prove compliance with information-security requirements. For that it would need to collect and analyze operational log data from all of its many IT systems. That intelligence would have to encompass the history as well as the current status of enterprise security information. The agency had previously chosen Splunk ® Enterprise as its log management and analytics platform, so it already had the ability to acquire the necessary log data from its distributed, multi-vendor, open-source environment. But an important source of log data was still missing. That source was (and is) the agency’s mainframe systems, which possessed extreme

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