LONDON, August 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Gaming Group Integrates Compliance with Security, Application 
Availability and Change Management System

Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced Gala Coral Group has
chosen Splunk as its enterprise-wide solution for Payment Card Industry (PCI)
compliance. The integrated gaming group, which includes Gala Casinos, Gala
Bingo, Coral and Eurobet, has also rolled out Splunk to integrate security,
application and network availability and provide reporting for change
management.

The PCI project builds on Gala Coral's successful initial deployment of
Splunk, which was already being used for secure central log collection and
audit trail retention - key aspects of PCI. Gala Coral chose Splunk for PCI
compliance because the solution cost-effectively indexes and can search
massive amounts of IT log data from any source.

Splunk is deployed across all of Gala Coral's datacenters, indexing a
wide range of data sources including Windows server logs, application logs,
Top Layer, Check Point and CVS logs and metrics. Gala Coral has deployed
Splunk for PCI Compliance and Splunk for Change Management - two applications
for the Splunk IT Search platform. Splunk now addresses all of the IT
data-related aspects of PCI compliance for Gala Coral, including: PCI control
reporting, audit trail retention, secure remote access, daily log reviews,
file integrity monitoring and secure central log collection. The Splunk PCI
application offers over 55 reports, more than 90 saved searches, dashboards,
and alerts.

"We selected Splunk above all other contenders to assist us in our PCI
compliance initiative because of its ability to collate and report on any
form of log file or data stream we require," says Peter D. Bassill, CISSP,
Group Information Security Officer, Gala Coral Group. "This gives us highly
granular logging information and enables us to turn any data into a concise
management report. The ability for a number of members of IT staff to have
controlled access to the solution also frees up the core IT team's time to
focus on other issues, which is another real economic benefit for the Group."

"The challenge of complying with the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS)
mandate is a difficult and moving target as PCI continues to evolve and IT
infrastructure keeps changing. Working with Gala Coral Group to slash
operational costs, reduce the risk associated with its 1bn pound Sterling
business, and achieve ongoing PCI compliance demonstrates the power of IT
Search as the new weapon for datacenter management", says Michael Baum,
Co-founder and CEO of Splunk. "Splunk lets IT Operations, Security and
Compliance teams across the enterprise more cost effectively manage complex,
rapidly changing IT environments."

About Gala Coral Group

The Gala Coral Group is the only UK operator to offer a full range of
online and offline gambling opportunities in the UK - Coral, Gala Bingo clubs
and Gala Casinos. The Group employs over 19,000 people across its various
trading divisions.

In addition, the Group has a growing international business which not
only includes the online Eurobet brand, but also has a newly established
land-based betting shop business in Italy.

The Group is proud to be the first gambling company to have received full
GamCare accreditation across all its UK divisions.

About Splunk

Splunk is the IT Search company innovating large-scale, high-speed
indexing and search technology for IT infrastructures. The company's freely
downloadable software indexes and makes it possible to search and navigate
data from any application, server or network device in real time. Logs,
configurations, messages, traps and alerts, scripts and metrics. If a machine
can generate it -- Splunk can index it. It's easy to download, install and
use, and is very powerful. More than 700 enterprises, government
organizations, and service providers and more than 200,000 users are
achieving higher availability, investigating security incidents in record
time, and meeting compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Over 50
OEM, System Integrator, Value Added Reseller and Managed Service Provider
partners have fueled their offerings with IT Search. Partners like British
Telecom, IronPort, Netcordia, Proofpoint, Radware, Trigeo, Uptime Software
and Voltage Security are driving new business with innovative products
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