Case Study

A Florida Sheriff’s Office partnered with Inspired Technologies to enhance its security operations while maintaining strict CJIS compliance. The agency supports approximately 950 full-time employees and manages 2,045 nodes/assets across endpoint, network, cloud, and identity environments. At the time of engagement, the Sheriff’s Office already had several security tools deployed, including CrowdStrike for endpoint protection, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Microsoft 365, and Barracuda for security awareness training.

While these tools were effective individually, they operated in silos, limiting centralized visibility, consistent log correlation, and continuous monitoring. As a law enforcement agency, the customer required a solution that could meet CJIS requirements, integrate seamlessly with existing technologies, and reduce the operational burden on internal staff. Replacing tools was not an option. They needed a SIEM-agnostic approach that could unify their environment and deliver actionable security insights.

Inspired Technologies recommended its Managed SIEM offering, designed to support regulated public-sector organizations while scaling with operational needs. At the core of the solution was centralized log ingestion and management using Sumo Logic, enabling flexible, cloud-native SIEM capabilities.

Logs were ingested from across the Sheriff’s Office environment, including endpoints, network infrastructure, cloud services, and identity systems. Data from CrowdStrike, Tenable, Office 365, and other sources was normalized and correlated to provide a unified security view. This multi-environment coverage allowed threats spanning multiple systems to be detected more quickly and accurately.

Inspired Technologies implemented automated alerting and notification, carefully tuned to minimize noise while ensuring critical security events were escalated promptly. Alerts were aligned with the agency’s operational priorities to support faster investigation and response.

A key differentiator was 24/7 monitoring by Inspired Technologies’ internal, U.S.-based SOC, staffed by CJIS-certified analysts. This ensured continuous oversight while maintaining compliance and eliminating the need for the Sheriff’s Office to build or staff an internal SOC. The Inspired SOC handled monitoring, triage, and escalation, working closely with the customer’s IT and security leadership.

Today, the Sheriff’s Office ingests approximately 100 GB of security data per day into the Managed SIEM environment. Logs are continuously analyzed and correlated across endpoint, network, cloud, and identity sources, significantly improving threat visibility and detection capabilities.

By aggregating security data into a single, centralized view, the agency now operates with a true “single pane of glass.” Investigations that previously required manual log reviews across multiple platforms can now be performed quickly using correlated alerts and dashboards. This has reduced detection and response times while improving overall confidence in incident handling.

Inspired Technologies’ Managed SIEM has also strengthened the agency’s CJIS compliance posture, ensuring logs are consistently collected, retained, and monitored. Audit readiness has improved, and leadership now has clearer insight into security trends, risks, and operational health.

Key benefits include:

• Improved visibility across all security domains
• Faster, more accurate threat detection and response
• Reduced workload for internal IT staff
• 24/7 monitoring by a CJIS-certified SOC
• Seamless integration with existing security tools

This engagement highlights how Inspired Technologies’ Managed SIEM offering enables law enforcement agencies to modernize security operations, maintain compliance, and gain actionable visibility—without increasing complexity or disrupting existing investments.