Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools are ubiquitous in enterprise 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 huge 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 strive to reduce the significant impact on their budget.
Expanding Data Sources Drive Up SIEM Costs
Enterprises face two common challenges when trying to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of their SIEMs:
- 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. SOC teams continue to send more data sources to their SIEMs to improve the context to the alerts and enable teams to respond more effectively, driving up costs. Otherwise, SOC teams are forced to sacrifice their scarce resources to conduct additional research to understand the context of an alert before they can initiate response.
Lower Your SIEM Costs with Netography Fusion
Netography Fusion® is a cloud-native 100% SaaS platform. It provides comprehensive real-time visibility across multi-cloud and hybrid networks 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 enriched metadata from across your existing technology stack to deliver context-rich alerts that lower your 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 need to send metadata — such as flow data and cloud flow logs — to your SIEM for analysis. Instead, the Fusion platform ingests that metadata and enriches it with context labels and tags from your applications, devices, and services. Its customizable detection models identify anomalous and malicious activity and send only context-rich alerts to your SIEM, significantly reducing the volume of raw event data your SIEM receives. Fusion also retains the original flow data, enabling you to perform granular historical analysis for forensics as well as meet data retention requirements.
- Improved Context with Enriched Metadata: Before forwarding detections to your SIEM, Fusion normalizes the raw event metadata and automatically enriches it with context labels and tags from across your multi-cloud or hybrid network. This automatic enrichment means you no longer have to choose between driving up SIEM costs with additional data sources or spending your teams’ scarce time standardizing data taxonomies and manually searching other tools for additional context. Instead, Fusion puts dozens of attributes at your analysts’ fingertips, enabling them to understand the significance of alerts and respond immediately.
Fusion Detection and Response Capabilities
Continually monitor enriched metadata collected from across your network to respond faster and more effectively to anomalies and compromise activity:
- North-South and East-West network traffic visibility monitors your network traffic and device communications across on-prem infrastructure, between clouds, cloud to on-prem, and on-prem to remote locations.
- Large partner ecosystem enables fast integration with your third-party products including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and ticketing systems.
- Flexible licensing and data retention to tailor your license to your requirements.
- Automatic context labeling with Context Creation Models (CCMs) that create labels to identify assets or groups of assets, reducing the time to detect anomalies and malicious activity.
- User-configurable detection & response with Netography Detection Models (NDMs) that pinpoint anomalous activity and enable multiple response workflows from a single NDM.
- Common language of Netography Query Language (NQL) eliminates data silos with a uniform detection, analysis, and reporting framework.
If you’d like to learn more about Netography Fusion, contact us for more information, a demo, or to get started with a trial.
About Netography
Netography is the leader in using context-enriched metadata to detect activity that should never happen in your multi-cloud or hybrid network. Netography Fusion is a 100% SaaS, cloud-native platform that provides real-time detection and response to compromises and anomalies at scale, without the burden of deploying sensors, agents, or taps.
Based in Annapolis, MD, Netography® is backed by some of the world’s leading venture firms, including Bessemer Venture Partners, SYN Ventures, and A16Z.