Press Release

BBSec Launches Splunk Enterprise Solution
For Big Data Analysis To Support Security Measures

Tokyo – January 16, 2015 – BroadBand Security Inc. (BBSec), a leading IT security service provider, announced today to launch Splunk Enterprise Solution to existing “Secure management service” and “PCI DSS compliance support” as a big data analyzing platform for security measures.

Splunk Enterprise is a consolidated platform to analyze big data. It captures and indexes any kind of machine-generated data on a real-time basis. It covers variety of applications and advanced analysis for security better than that conventional SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) tools do. Splunk was named a leader in the 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event management.  It gains international recognition in the field of security and compliance. Thousands of organizations are using the product including administrative agency, space and defense agency, and universities such as United States Department of Energy,  Federal Aviation Administration, NASA, and the George Washington University.

BBSec will enhance its security services by use of Splunk Enterprise, a highly reliable and flexible platform, as a base of security measures of customer organizations.

Example of the enhancement:

1. Log Analysis for Security Measures

In the managed security service, Splunk will be a recommended tool to analyze log data. BBSec, as security specialists, will provide detailed and high quality log analyzing services by using the tool. The log analysis using Splunk may afford proactive detection of targeted threats hiding in the system. In case of incidents, on the other hand, it will extracts required information, such as the cause, the impact, and the influenced systems, from huge volume of log data in a brief period.

2. For PCI DSS compliance

In the PCI DSS compliance support, Splunk Enterprise will be a recommended SIEM tool to track and monitor all access to network resources and cardholder data, which is one of the twelve PCI DSS requirements.  As Splunk Enterprise is a self-sustained package, one can scale out the log monitoring facility to improve the performance by just adding the package to the system without concerning the constraints of existing SIEM tools, which is a great advantage to maintain the security system.  

Quotes:

Mr. Yoshio Nakamura, Country Manager of Splunk Services Japan:

“Splunk Inc. welcomes BBSec start using Splunk to support security measures. It is crucial to address security threats which are getting more subtle and sophisticated these days. Both existing and potential threats should be addressed.  Splunk Inc. will assist BBSec's security support business by supplying products for centralized capturing, visualizing, searching, and analyzing security related data.”

BBSec will promote the use of Splunk, and additionally, it will support the integration on request.

About BBSec
Broadband Security, Inc. is the total security provider of diagnosis, administration, maintenance, and digital forensic for IT security. With the concept “to make IT networks in Japan as the most robust in the world”, we supports the security side of IT service for various enterprises ranging from major companies and telecommunications carriers to IT ventures by utilizing high technology, abundant experience, and wide range of information collecting ability since the establishment in November 2000.  For more details please visit our website at http://www.BBSec.co.jp/.

Press Contact:

Administrative Department, BroadBand Security, Inc.
Tel: +81-3-5338-7430
E-mail: press@BBSec.co.jp

Sales Contact:

East Japan Sales Department, BroadBand Security, Inc.
Homepage: https://www.bbsec.co.jp/inquiry/
Tel: +81-3-5338-7430

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