Optimizing Security Budgets to Deliver a Comprehensive Security Program
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, traditional Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) architectures are becoming increasingly inefficient and costly. At Security Risk Advisors (SRA), we understand the challenges that come with managing vast amounts of log data and the financial strain it places on your security budget. Our innovative Security Data Pipeline and Purple Team services are designed to help you maximize your spend and significantly enhance your security capabilities.
Program Components that Help Maximize Your Budget
SIEM
The conventional “log everything” approach is no longer sustainable. Logs contain enormous amounts of data, requiring extensive cloud storage that drives up costs year over year. This outdated approach consumes a significant portion of your security budget, leaving little room to address other critical gaps in your security program. SRA helps you build an intelligent SIEM architecture (built on Microsoft’s Sentinel SIEM) that lets you hold on to all of your log data and only stores critical information in the SIEM.
Data Lake
Microsoft Data Lake stores vast amounts of log data efficiently and cost-effectively. SRA helps you intelligently route bulk SIEM event logs into the Data Lake, while storing only the most critical event data directly in the SIEM. This approach allows for long-term retention and advanced analytics without the high costs associated with traditional SIEM storage. The data lake serves as a repository for all log data, enabling enriched insights and data analysis through AI.
Purple Teams
Purple Team assessments test and validate your security controls against the latest attack vectors and TTPs of known threat groups. These exercises are benchmarked against industry standards and provide actionable insights to improve your security posture. The results are tracked and reported using our VECTR platform, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
Services that reduce spend and maximize your budget.
Modernize your Security Data Pipeline and Cut Cloud Technology Costs
Logging everything to SIEM is a bad approach. It’s noisy and expensive. SRA’s Security Data Pipeline reduces log size and intelligently routes events to the security data lake or SIEM. When applied to your cloud SIEM architecture, event logs can be cleansed of unnecessary information and intelligently routed to a data lake, reducing your logging and monitoring technology budget by as much as 80%! By implementing Cribl and establishing a modernized security data pipeline, you will not only reduce your tech spend, but also improve the efficiency of your logging and monitoring capabilities by gaining increased visibility and control of your data.
Purple Teams
Purple Teams testing using VECTR™ enables the CISO office to answer the question “How do we compare to our peers?” in the hard-to-measure area of advanced threat detection readiness. Our approach prioritizes a compact set of MITRE ATT&CK techniques for adversary simulation in a collaborative workshop / table top exercise format. This leads to knowledge sharing, consensus and co-ownership of results for improvement. We help you tell your industry-benchmarked threat resilience story using VECTR™ visualizations like the trending resilience score and validated MITRE ATT&CK heatmaps.