Explore open-source SIEM tools to enhance your security monitoring. Learn about features, deployment, and how they compare to commercial solutions.

Cybersecurity is moving fast, and if your security data management strategy can’t keep up with your growth, you’re already behind. Security operations centers (SOCs) today face mountains of data spread across countless tools and platforms. Combine that with evolving cyber threats, and you have an environment that demands a smarter approach to SIEM data management.

Cybersecurity today is not just about defending against attacks. It’s about proactively managing risks in a landscape where threats are growing in volume and sophistication. With data volumes rising by 30% in just the past year and the average cost of a data breach now exceeding $4 million, traditional Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems are no longer enough.

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We hear it often—data volumes are growing at a 28% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) year over year, and organizations struggle to manage it all. With no additional money in their budgets, they can’t afford to store more and more data in their SIEM, which in most cases means being uncompliant or, worse, not having older data readily available in the case of a recently discovered breach. I’ve repeatedly heard that the data they have archived is practically inaccessible.

In an increasingly digital world, organizations face complex challenges in managing their security data that’s growing at a relentless pace. With the rapid growth of cyber assets and the ever-present threat of sophisticated attacks, legacy security tools often struggle to keep up.

Identity providers (IdPs) such as Okta play a crucial role in enterprise environments by providing seamless authentication and authorization experiences for users accessing organizational resources. These interactions generate a massive volume of event logs, containing valuable information like user details, geographical locations, IP addresses, and more. These logs are essential for security teams, especially in operations, because they’re used to detect and respond to incidents effectively.

The faulty Rapid Response Content CrowdStrike update that disabled millions of Windows machines across the globe on 7/19/2024 was any IT professional’s nightmare. Having to manually visit and restore each affected machine (further complicated by BitLocker) severely limited the recovery speed, especially for businesses with remote locations, TVs, kiosks, etc.

SecOps teams at midsize companies face a unique set of challenges when it comes to managing organizational cybersecurity. Midsize companies (those with 100-999 employees and $50 million-$1 billion in annual revenue, according to Gartner) possess significant financial resources and valuable data that may be targeted by digital adversaries.

The SIEM market attracts attention for a variety of reasons. First, it is dominated by a number of large players but there are a range of smaller companies vying for market share. It is also a market generally accessible to new entrants. There’s always a new company pitching a different spin on SIEM, whether it’s a new architectural model in the cloud, faster analytics from running on a third-party data warehouse, or leaning into new, undefined terms like a security data fabric.