Government agencies and commercial entities must retain data for several years and commonly experience IT challenges due to increased data volumes and new sources coming online. Due to these factors, they are starting to undergo degradation in the performance of Security Information & Event Management (SIEM’s) tools like Splunk. To continue to meet mission needs, address the increase in data sources that require protection, and manage costs, they have started research strategies that complement their Splunk investments while looking for solutions that meet or exceed their organization’s policies.This white paper will focus on how agencies use DataFlow for universal data distribution as a solution for Splunk optimization with the technical details required to re-create this work.
