Financial Services: Agent Smith™ for Splunk Intelligence

AI driven Cisco observability for financial services delivered in weeks.

Agent Smith™ is Data^#3’s proprietary AI powered solution for rapidly building production ready Splunk environments for Cisco infrastructure.

Trained to develop Splunk solutions for Cisco networks, Agent Smith transforms natural language requirements into complete Splunk implementations, dramatically reducing complexity, delivery time and cost.

What often takes eight to 12 weeks can now be delivered in one to two weeks, without compromising quality or operational readiness.

For banks, insurers and super funds, that speed matters for a specific reason. Change windows are narrow, release freezes sit over end of quarter, and when an incident hits a payment rail the regulator’s questions arrive before the post-incident review is written. An observability program that takes a quarter to stand up is a quarter of unmonitored exposure.

Agent Smith is built to work inside those constraints, and to produce what a financial institution is asked to show: which critical operations were affected, how far service degraded against tolerance, and a defensible record of how each detection and KPI was derived.

Enquire now to see Agent Smith™ in action.

What Agent Smith™ delivers

Agent Smith generates a full Splunk implementation tailored to Cisco environments, including:

• Service definitions for WAN, LAN, wireless and security domains
• Cisco optimised KPIs with validated SPL searches
• Topology aware glass tables for executive and NOC views
• Correlation searches and notable event logic
• Data ingestion and parsing configurations for Cisco telemetry
• API clients, deployment scripts and Git-based configuration management
• Compliance and audit reporting packs mapped to regulatory control obligations.

All outputs are compatible with Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise.

For financial services teams under pressure

This service is suited for:

• Banks, mutuals, insurers, super funds and payments providers needing service-centric visibility across the Cisco infrastructure their customers transact on
• CIOs, CISOs and COOs accountable for the availability of critical operations and customer-facing digital channels
• Risk and compliance teams that need logging and monitoring evidence they can put in front of an auditor or a regulator
• Fraud and financial crime teams working toward a fusion centre model with SecOps and ITOps
• Institutions seeking demonstrable outcomes inside a single change window, without extended consulting timelines.

Built for financial services outcomes

Data^#3 builds Agent Smith outputs around the outcomes financial institutions are measured on, so a deployment starts against risk and service priorities rather than a blank Splunk instance.

• Operational resilience
  Service-centric views across Cisco WAN, LAN, wireless and security domains, so teams see the health of the payment rail or the broker channel and not just whether a device is up. Critical operations map to tolerance levels, and topology-aware glass tables give the NOC, the fusion centre and the executive the same picture.
• Financial crime
  Correlation searches and notable event logic tuned to account takeover, new account fraud, wire transfer anomalies and structuring patterns, with findings routed into existing case management rather than a parallel queue.
• Compliance
  Dashboards and reporting mapped to APRA CPS 234 and CPS 230 control expectations and AML/CTF obligations, with logging coverage gaps surfaced rather than assumed. Every KPI ships with the SPL behind it, so an auditor or a regulator can see how a number was derived.
• Fusion centre enablement
  One set of service definitions and data models that SecOps, fraud, ITOps and engineering work from, so a fusion centre model has something concrete to stand on in weeks rather than quarters. Capacity and degradation forecasting on Cisco telemetry sits in the same view.

Security, compliance and auditability by design

Regulated financial services work carries obligations that other industries don’t. Agent Smith is built so those obligations are satisfied by the way the solution is produced, not bolted on afterwards.

• Platform foundations you can evidence
  Splunk Cloud Platform is ISO/IEC 27001 certified and issues an annual SOC 2 Type II report, with Australian data residency available in the Sydney region. Where data has to remain inside your own environment, Agent Smith outputs deploy equally to Splunk Enterprise under your control.
• No production data required to build
  Agent Smith works from stated requirements, generating configuration, SPL and deployment artefacts. Customer and transaction data stays where it is during the design phase.
• Auditable by construction
  Every service definition, KPI, search and dashboard is version controlled in Git with its derivation visible. That gives you change history, peer review and rollback, and the change management evidence an information security assessment asks for.
• Zero trust aligned
  Outputs support the cross-cutting capabilities in zero trust maturity models, particularly visibility and analytics, automation and orchestration, and governance.
• Human accountability retained
  Data^#3 Splunk and Cisco specialists review and validate every output before it reaches production. The AI accelerates the build but doesn’t sign off on it.