The document discusses how the University of Exeter uses Splunk software to protect its higher education and research activities. It notes the university has £100m in research income, £420m turnover, and over 22,500 students. It aims to safeguard all research data, intellectual property, and "high value targets" from attackers. The university uses Splunk to monitor critical systems like online exams, detect cyber threats following the MITRE ATT&CK framework, and gain security insights from data sources across its IT infrastructure and applications. While deployment challenges remain, Splunk is central to the university's operations and the number of use cases is growing daily.