Sword helps organisations maximise the value of their Splunk investment through consultancy, integration and managed services. Combining Splunk technology with expertise in cyber security including operational technology, Sword helps customers improve visibility, strengthen security and make better decisions from their data.
How Sword and Splunk Deliver Operational Resilience
Sword combines Splunk's unified security and observability platform with our 24/7 UK-based Unified Operations Centre and IT and OT expertise. Together, they detect threats faster, prevent disruption and turn your data into insight that strengthens operational resilience.
Expert support across the full Splunk lifecycle, from design and deployment to optimisation and day-to-day management.
- Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud design, deployment and migration
- Health checks and optimisation to improve performance and control data costs
- Data onboarding from IT, OT, cloud and security sources
- Fully managed Splunk platform administration and support
Our 24/7 UK Unified Operations Centre uses Splunk to detect, investigate and respond to threats across IT and OT, reducing time to detect and respond.
- Continuously evolving detection with Splunk Enterprise Security
- Automated response with Splunk SOAR playbooks
- Proactive threat hunting across IT and OT environments
- Integration with our Unified Cyber Defence Service
A unified view of performance, risk and operational health, bringing together data from OT, networks, security platforms and enterprise systems.
- End-to-end visibility with Splunk Observability Cloud and IT Service Intelligence
- Observability for AI, monitoring performance, cost of AI infrastructure and agentic applications
- Asset health monitoring and anomaly detection across IT and OT
- Role-based dashboards with business KPIs and resilience reporting
- Predictive insights to identify emerging risks earlier
Our Continuous Compliance solution runs on Splunk. It audits your controls against the NCSC CAF in real-time and shows your position on a live dashboard.
- Automated, continuous assessment against the NCSC CAF
- Live dashboards for security teams and boards
- Audit-ready evidence for regulators
- Alerts when controls drift out of compliance
- Predictive insights to identify emerging risks earlier
Case Study
Real-Time Observability & Threat Detection
UK National Infrastructure Operator
Context
Securing critical national infrastructure power generator’s IT and OT networks alongside IT and Network monitoring outcomes.
Solution
Sword designed and worked hand-in-hand with the customer’s technical teams, delivering an on-prem Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security solution across IT and OT environments.
Outcome
Streamlined millions of daily events into actionable insights, removing operational blindspots and aiding regulatory compliance.
Leadership Spotlight
Stuart Robertson
Stuart Robertson is Head of Digital Resilience at Sword, helping organisations strengthen resilience, manage risk and improve their ability to respond to disruption. He works with customers to enhance observability, strengthen governance and build the capabilities needed to maintain operational continuity in complex and regulated environments.
More Information
Sword is a Splunk Elite Partner and was recently recognised as Splunk’s 2026 EMEA Services Partner of the Year. These achievements reflect Sword’s technical expertise, accredited consultants and proven track record delivering security, observability and operationally resilient solutions.
Yes. Sword configures Splunk to ingest telemetry from OT environments, including SCADA and industrial control systems, using non-intrustive collection methods that provide visibility without disrupting critical operations.
We carry out Splunk health checks to identify opportunities to optimise data indigestion, remove duplicate or unnecessary data, and structure storage more effectively. This helps to control licensing costs while ensuring the platform can scale as your requirements grow.
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Whether you are strengthening operational resilience, securing critical infrastructure, or improving organisational preparedness, our UK-based experts are ready to support your mission-critical operations