Energy organisations — whether in oil & gas production or electrical transmission — depend on uninterrupted operational performance. Safety, reliability, and real‑time visibility into industrial assets are essential. With Splunk’s advanced analytics and our expert implementation services, energy operators can strengthen operational resilience, improve cyber readiness, and maintain compliance with global frameworks such as the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF).
Splunk for OT in the Energy Sector
Oil & gas and electrical transmission systems rely on diverse industrial assets: SCADA controllers, remote terminal units (RTUs), PLCs, pipeline sensors, substations, and field communication networks. These environments present unique monitoring challenges due to geographic distribution, legacy systems, strict uptime requirements, and stringent safety controls.
Splunk’s OT Security Add‑on provides deep visibility across these industrial ecosystems by expanding monitoring and analytics across both traditional IT and OT environments. It supports threat detection, incident investigation, compliance reporting, and forensic analysis across assets ranging from SCADA to PLCs, enabling operators to detect abnormal behavior, infrastructure changes, or suspicious activity in real time.
In oil & gas, Splunk helps monitor pipeline integrity events, unauthorised remote access attempts, USB media usage at field sites, and deviations in industrial protocol traffic. In electrical transmission, Splunk enables visibility across substations, perimeter network crossings, sensor telemetry, transformer monitoring, and critical control centre communications.
Our services help energy operators deploy Splunk in rugged, complex OT environments—including perimeter monitoring, behavioural analytics, and asset risk modelling—ensuring rapid time to insight and high‑confidence operational awareness.
Strengthening Cybersecurity for Critical Energy Infrastructure
Critical energy infrastructure faces targeted threats from nation‑states, ransomware groups, and supply‑chain vulnerabilities. Because these systems support essential functions, even small disruptions can have major regional or national impacts.
Splunk Enterprise Security allows energy organisations to centralise cyber monitoring across both OT and IT, delivering correlation searches, identity and access analytics, and threat‑driven detections. For OT environments, the OT Security Add‑on extends these detections to industrial protocols, asset behaviour profiling, and ICS‑aligned correlation rules.
For oil & gas operators, this means earlier detection of lateral movement attempts from IT to OT, compromised vendor accounts, or abnormal controller behaviour at upstream, midstream, or downstream facilities. For electrical transmission operators, Splunk supports monitoring of substations, transformers, control centres, and inter‑utility communication paths to identify unauthorised configuration changes, abnormal network traffic, or misaligned access patterns.
Compliance and Regulatory Assurance with Splunk
Energy operators face compliance obligations driven by national security interests and sector‑specific mandates. Splunk enables automated evidence collection, continuous monitoring, and gap analysis across multiple frameworks relevant to global energy operations.
Compliance Essentials for Splunk
Compliance Essentials for Splunk (CES) includes dashboards and control mappings aligned with frameworks such as:
- NIST RMF
- CMMC
- DFARS
- FISMA
- Australian ISM, Essential Eight, AES‑CSF
- UK NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF)
CES delivers thousands of dashboards—including 2,900+ RMF, 170+ CMMC, 300+ FISMA, and 39 CAF‑aligned dashboards—providing energy operators a single view of compliance posture across complex, distributed infrastructure.
Our Splunk consulting team, in collaboration with our OT Cyber Security experts can modify the Compliance Essentials app to streamline your compliance operations.
Energy utilities delivering essential services—including electricity transmission and fuel supply—fall squarely into the scope of the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework. CAF provides an outcomes‑driven way to evaluate cyber resilience across governance, protection, detection, and incident impact reduction.
Compliance Essentials for Splunk includes CAF‑mapped content, dashboards, and indicators of good practice (IGPs), enabling operators to directly track how their controls support CAF’s four objectives and fourteen principles.
Why Energy Operators Partner With Us
We bring deep experience delivering Splunk across complex, safety‑critical OT environments in both oil & gas and electrical transmission. Our services help energy organisations:
- Deploy Splunk architectures that function reliably across remote sites, substations, and industrial zones
- Integrate OT‑specific data sources, including SCADA, PLCs, industrial protocols, and vendor security platforms
- Build customised detections tailored to oil and gas asset operations, grid conditions, and transmission control centres
- Enable ongoing compliance with CAF and other regulatory frameworks
- Strengthen cyber resilience and minimise operational disruptions
Whether you’re protecting pipelines, drilling platforms, compressor stations, substations, or transmission control centres, our Splunk consulting services accelerate visibility, security, and compliance across your operational landscape.
