As SVP and Chief Information Security Officer for the community-based Orrstown Bank, Andrew Linn welcomes the convenience offered by Splunk’s console services. Coming from a background with JPMorgan Chase & Co, Linn found that for community banks, the smaller budget calls for more creativity in meeting the challenges of infrastructure, as well as the security threats posed by debit and credit card fraud.

‘We’d rather not run a data center; we’d rather be a bank’

Sitting down at the Splunk .conf2015 event in Las Vegas with John Furrier and George Gilbert, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, Linn discussed how he and his employing company are working to take on these challenges, as well as looking for ways to pre-emptively tackle them.

“We originally brought Splunk in to answer the question of [security],” he said, though they found that Splunk could also help them to meet other customer needs. Most of the convenience of the application, Linn noted, was in the clearer representation of the collected data. “If you spew out a big report on a screen and ask a human to [go through it], it’ll be about 10 seconds before they delete it.”

‘The credit and debit card fraud … that’s real dollars that hit the bottom line’

With options to sift through the usage data of ATMs, CPU distribution, customer withdrawal patterns and more, Splunk has given Orrstown Bank’s IT department a wide array of tools.

“If we can get more data flowing into Splunk, we can learn more about our customers,” whether helping customers identify connection issues with online banking, identifying falsified credit card usage or determining how much money really needs to be kept in any given ATM for standard withdrawal rates.

Watch the full video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Splunk .conf 2015.

Also, join in on the live conversation at https://www.crowdchat.net/SplunkConf.

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