Health Services: Agent Smith™ for Splunk Intelligence

AI driven Cisco observability for healthcare and life sciences 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 hospitals, primary care and community health networks, pathology and imaging providers, aged care operators and life sciences organisations, that speed matters for a specific reason. Clinical systems don’t have quiet periods, change windows sit in the small hours, and when an incident hits a patient administration system or a pathology feed, the questions arrive well before the post-incident review is written. Healthcare has been Australia’s most-breached sector in every OAIC report since the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme began in 2018. An observability program that takes a quarter to stand up is a quarter of unmonitored exposure across the continuum of care.

Agent Smith is built to work inside those constraints, and to produce what a healthcare organisation is asked to show: which clinical services were affected, how far care delivery 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 clinical, clinical-support and corporate network domains across WAN, LAN, wireless and security
• Cisco optimised KPIs with validated SPL searches
• Topology aware glass tables for executive, NOC and clinical operations 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 Privacy Act, My Health Records and Essential Eight control obligations.

All outputs are compatible with Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise.

For healthcare services teams under pressure

This service is suited for:

• Public and private hospitals, primary care and community health networks, pathology and imaging providers, aged care operators, private health insurers, pharmaceutical, MedTech and life sciences organisations
• CIOs, CISOs and Chief Medical Information Officers accountable for the availability of clinical systems and patient-facing digital channels
• Risk, privacy and compliance teams that need logging and monitoring evidence they can put in front of an auditor, an accreditation surveyor or the OAIC
• Fraud and financial crime teams working toward a fusion centre model with SecOps and ITOps
• Clinical informatics and integration teams responsible for the HL7 and FHIR interfaces that carry patient data between systems
• Organisations seeking demonstrable outcomes inside a single change window, without extended consulting timelines.

Built for healthcare and life sciences outcomes

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

• Clinical continuity
  Service-centric views across Cisco WAN, LAN, wireless and security domains, so teams see the health of the EMR, the pathology interface or the imaging network and not just whether a device is up. Critical clinical services map to tolerance levels and topology-aware glass tables give the NOC, clinical operations centre and executive the same picture.
• Patient data protection
  Correlation searches and notable event logic tuned to ransomware precursors, credential misuse, anomalous access to patient records and bulk record export, with findings routed into existing case management rather than a parallel queue. Human error, not ransomware, caused 37 per cent of notifiable breaches in the first half of 2025, so the detections cover the misdirected and the misconfigured as well as the malicious.
• Compliance
  Dashboards and reporting mapped to Privacy Act and Australian Privacy Principles obligations, the security and access policy requirements of the My Health Records Rules 2026 and ASD Essential Eight maturity targets, with logging coverage gaps surfaced rather than assumed. Every KPI ships with the SPL behind it, so an auditor, accreditation surveyor or the OAIC can see how a number was derived.
• Interoperability assurance
  One set of service definitions and data models that clinical informatics, SecOps, ITOps and engineering work from. With AU Core and the Australian Core Data for Interoperability now the national baseline for FHIR connections to My Health Record, the HL7 and FHIR interfaces carrying patient data need the same monitoring rigour as the network underneath them. Capacity and degradation forecasting on Cisco telemetry sits in the same view.

Security, compliance and auditability by design

Health information is the most sensitive category of personal information in Australian law, and handling it carries obligations that other industries don’t. A single breach can trigger three separate reports on three different clocks: the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme, the My Health Records Act and the 72-hour ransomware payment rule under the Cyber Security Act 2024. Agent Smith is built so those obligations are satisfied by the way the solution is produced.

• 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 or a My Health Record participation review 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.