Aging legacy SIEMs need to be replaced with Next-Gen SIEMs!

SCWorld.com reported that “A conflict has unfolded within the security operations center (SOC). For decades, security teams have balanced their financial needs and security needs to determine which data they should use and maintain to secure their organizations. However, as data volumes and storage costs continue to soar, this imperfect approach has led to one of the SOC’s biggest challenges: the data paradox.”  The November 4, 2024 report entitled " Why SOCs need to break away from legacy SIEMs” (https://tinyurl.com/3jtxj2wf) included these comments:

One culprit responsible for the data paradox are the security information and event management (SIEM) tools that were originally designed two decades ago to centralize data from disparate tools so teams could use it to secure their businesses. However, these SIEM tools were built for a time when log volumes and adversary speed were a fraction of what they are today. They have failed to evolve and scale alongside the exponential growth of data volumes and changing adversary sophistication.

Imagine the team need to investigate an incident, and it wants immediate access to all of the company’s data to gain a full picture of the incident and determine next steps. It’s now unattainable for many SOC teams because ingesting all of the necessary data for a full investigation is too time-consuming and costly when using legacy SIEM tools. SOC teams are forced to make budget-conscious choices on which data to analyze, leading to an incomplete picture, inadequate investigation and response, and insufficient protection against breaches.

A new generation of SIEM (Next-Gen SIEM) has emerged to help security teams scale and ingest every source of data they have without breaking the bank. These cloud-native tools are fundamentally changing how the SOC operates, allowing them to finally break free of the data paradox problem.

Think its about time for the Next-Gen SIEM?