Splunk Inc. announced that McKenney's, Inc. has integrated Splunk(R) Enterprise with McKenney's bdoc(R) Business Intelligence (BI) for Buildings. Through the agreement, Splunk Enterprise becomes the analytics backbone of a new program to analyze data from elevators, security doors, light switches, wall mounted thermostats, air conditioners--essentially all the machine data generated by buildings. By analyzing and correlating industrial data, organizations gain operational intelligence in the form of building and energy efficiencies. Watch the video case study to learn more about how McKenney's utilizes Splunk Enterprise to analyze data collected from the Internet of Things.

Splunk, Inc. announced the general availability of version 2.4 of the Splunk App for Enterprise Security. Splunk(R) Enterprise and the Splunk App for Enterprise Security are a security intelligence platform that helps organizations discover unknown threats in real time with out-of-the-box content, including new searches, dashboards and visualizations that enable rich statistical analysis of machine data. Fieldglass' Software-as-a-Service platform helps nearly 200 companies better procure and manage their global non-employee workforces. The company replaced a legacy Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool with Splunk Enterprise and the Splunk App for Enterprise Security two years ago. Fieldglass uses Splunk software for data forensics and analysis, security reporting and SIEM functionality. The common purpose of advanced threat malware is to communicate to external locations its health, facilitate command and control, and collect and send valuable data to the attacker. Essentially, attackers are turning employees into 'data mules' for advanced threat actors. Often, the attacker will then use web-based protocols for communication in the hopes of hiding their traffic in terabytes of web logs. Traditional security approaches help find known threats, and statistical analysis is used to separate ordinary user activity from the anomalies that result from unknown threats. The Splunk App for Enterprise Security includes searches, dashboards and visualizations for Advanced Threat Detection that help to reveal what activity is abnormal and detect attack patterns.

Splunk, Inc. announced that Patricia B. Morrison has been appointed to the company's Board of Directors effective as of April 19, 2013. Ms. Morrison has been Executive Vice President of Customer Care Shared Services and Chief Information Officer for Cardinal Health since 2009. Prior to joining Cardinal Health, she held senior executive and IT leadership positions at Motorola, Office Depot, PepsiCo, Quaker Oats, General Electric and Procter & Gamble. Ms. Morrison also serves on the Board of Directors of the Columbus Museum of Art and TechColumbus.