A visionary Silicon Valley startup that had just completed its first funding round. The client possessed deep expertise in cyber security and envisioned a revolutionary approach to protecting modern data centers, where over fifty percent of workloads are virtualized either in the cloud or on-premise.
Although the client employed top cyber-security specialists in the United States, their engineering team lacked the experience required to design and implement the necessary big-data infrastructure.
Tight deadlines and intense competition for big-data talent in Silicon Valley made hiring difficult. The challenge was further compounded by the need to support real-time and historical data analysis from hundreds or thousands of security sensors generating massive data volumes.
Opallios quickly assembled a team of big-data experts who assessed the client’s technical challenges and identified the most suitable technology platform. Functional and non-functional requirements were gathered despite many unknowns associated with the leading-edge nature of the product.
Agile software development provided a resilient framework for managing uncertainty. Opallios selected Splunk as a scalable big-data platform capable of handling real-time and historical analysis needs.
A custom Splunk application was developed to analyze sensor data in real time, generate alerts for known threats, and support historical forensic analysis through a sophisticated user interface.
Using Agile Scrum and three-week development cycles, Opallios delivered three product releases over four months. Close collaboration between the client’s cyber-security experts and Opallios’ big-data specialists ensured success.
The final product enabled customers to identify previously undetected threats within two hours of installation. The dependable and resilient big-data infrastructure continues to support ongoing product enhancements.
Opallios is an innovative technology consulting firm combining expertise in big data, Salesforce, strategy, and product development. The firm works across industries including technology, healthcare, financial services, and hospitality to help clients realize business value from the data revolution.