Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools are ubiquitous in security operations centers (SOCs). They help security, operations, and compliance teams manage the massive volume of event data generated by their cloud and on-prem security tools, devices, applications, and systems.
However, SIEMs also generate extremely high costs due to their ingestion and storage of the massive amounts of event data they analyze. As enterprises have expanded their tech stacks and incorporated more event data into their SIEMs to improve security, their SIEMs have consumed more of their operations budget.
As a result, many CISOs have found that their SIEM costs are no longer sustainable and look for ways to reduce the significant impact on their budget.
Expanding Data Sources Drive Up SIEM Costs
You face two common challenges when trying to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of your SIEM:
- Data Ingestion and Storage: SIEMs typically charge by Events Per Second (EPS) or Gigabytes Per Day (GBPD) ingested. Both licensing models translate to higher costs as network speeds continue to increase and cause tools, devices, and applications to flood SIEMs with more event data. In addition, regulatory requirements often mandate the retention of data files for up to seven years (such as PCI DSS, GDPR, or HIPAA), requiring a significant investment in storage.
- Need for More Context: SIEMs use complex rulesets to correlate events from a wide range of disparate sources to generate actionable information. Your SOC teams continue to send more data sources to their SIEMs to improve the context of the alerts and enable teams to respond more effectively, driving up costs. Otherwise, your SOC teams have to sacrifice their scarce resources to conduct additional research to understand an alert’s context before initiating response workflows.
Lower Your SIEM Costs with Netography Fusion
Netography Fusion® is a cloud-native 100% SaaS platform. It provides comprehensive real-time holistic network security and observability across your multi-cloud or hybrid network without flooding your SIEM with costly raw data. Fusion enables you to significantly reduce the volume of data your SIEM ingests and stores while increasing your real-time awareness of anomalous and malicious activity across your entire network.
Fusion analyzes context-enriched metadata from across your existing technology stack to deliver high-confidence alerts that lower costs without sacrificing security. Its customizable detection models deliver high-fidelity insights to your SIEM that provide your teams with the actionable information they need without having to add more data sources to your SIEM or spend time researching low-value alerts.
Simplify Your SIEM without Sacrificing Security
Fusion reduces the impact of escalating SIEM costs on your organization without compromising your ability to detect and respond to unwanted activity:
- Reduced Event Data to Ingest and Store: Fusion eliminates the necessity to send metadata, such as VPC and VNet cloud flow logs and on-prem flow logs, to your SIEM for analysis. Instead, the Fusion platform ingests this metadata from your platforms, applications, devices, and services. Over 300 customizable detection models identify anomalous and malicious activities and send context-rich alerts to your SIEM, significantly decreasing the volume of raw event data your SIEM receives. Furthermore, Fusion retains the original flow data, allowing for granular historical analysis for forensics and ensuring compliance with data retention requirements.
- Enhanced Context with Enriched Metadata: Before forwarding detections to your SIEM, Fusion aggregates and normalizes the raw event metadata. It then enriches the metadata with dozens of context attributes from your multi-cloud or hybrid network. This automated enrichment means you no longer have to choose between increasing SIEM costs with additional data sources or wasting your teams’ limited time standardizing data taxonomies and manually searching other tools for extra context. Instead, Fusion provides dozens of attributes at your analysts’ fingertips, enabling them to grasp the significance of alerts and respond in real-time.
Fusion Detection and Response Capabilities
The Fusion platform continuously monitors your network to enable you to lower you SIEM costs while improving your security posture. Fusion delivers many uniqe capabilites to your operations teams, including:
- Holistic View of All Network Activity: The Fusion platform eliminates the challenges of monitoring all your cloud and on-prem network activity from a single platform. Its frictionless architecture speeds deployment so you can start monitoring anywhere you want continuous network security and observability in minutes or hours, not days or weeks.
- Eliminates Sensors Frictionless: NDR eliminates the cost and complexity of deploying sensors, probes, or taps to collect data. Deploying additional infrastructure is unnecessary to begin using the Fusion platform. Its architectural simplicity means your teams can start monitoring your multicloud or hybrid network activity in minutes or hours, instead of days or weeks.
- Eliminates Deep Packet Inspection: Netography has created hundreds of detection models to deliver high-confidence, context-rich alerts to security teams without inspecting packets. Because flow and DNS data are ubiquitous in your network, it’s an extremely useful method for detecting active threat actors who have bypassed your other security controls.
- Detect Activity Other Tools Miss: The Fusion platform detects a wide range of malicious activity in your network that have bypassed your other controls:
- Unauthorized Access Attempts and Lateral Motion: Detects attempts to access restricted areas or unauthorized movement within the network.
- Unusual Communication Patterns: Identifies potential botnet activity through irregular traffic patterns.
- Data Harvesting Before Exfiltration: Spots early signs of large data access or movement that may precede data theft.
- Internal Misuse and Policy Violations: Flags instances of employees violating internal policies or accessing unauthorized resources.
- Communication with Malicious IPs and Domains: Detects connections to known malicious entities.
- Anomalous Behavior Indicating Zero-Day Exploits: Uncovers deviations that indicate zero-day attacks or new threats.
- Network Scanning and Enumeration: Identifies scanning activities used to map and probe the network.
- Unusual Data Transfer Rates and Protocols: Spots abnormal data transfers or uncommon protocol use.
- Application and Service Anomalies: Detects unexpected traffic or behavior related to specific applications or services.
- Configuration Errors and Network Mismanagement: Reveals misconfigurations or errors in the network setup.
If you’d like to learn more about Netography Fusion, contact us for more information, a demo, or to start your free trial.
About Netography
Netography is the leader in holistic network security and observability. The Netography Fusion® platform is the fastest and easiest way to detect anomalous and malicious activity in your multi-cloud, single-cloud, or hybrid network. Fusion is a 100% SaaS, cloud-native platform that provides frictionless detection and response to compromises and anomalies at scale in real-time without the burden of deploying sensors, agents, or taps.
Based in Annapolis, MD, Netography® is backed by leading venture firms, including Bessemer Venture Partners, SYN Ventures, and A16Z. For more information, visit netography.com.