From Data Burden to Strategic Advantage: Rethinking SIEM Economics for the Modern SOC
By Simon Hunt, Chief Product Officer at Securonix
The Rise of the Data Burden
Your security operations are running in full throttle. Every log, alert, and event is fuel for defense. But as enterprises scale across endpoints, cloud, and SaaS, data has become both an enabler and an expense.
The explosion of telemetry has turned visibility into an economic dilemma.
Across the industry, CISOs are confronting a simple truth: the challenge isn’t how much data you can collect; it’s how intelligently you can use it to stay both Breach Ready and Board Ready.
The cost of ingesting, storing, and analyzing data has quietly become the hidden tax on security operations.
Why the Old Model Breaks
For years, SIEM pricing has been based on ingestion. Estimate high, and you overspend. Estimate low, and you lose visibility when you need it most. The result: teams tuning pipelines instead of investigating incidents.
As one Securonix customer put it:
“We were spending more time managing ingestion limits than managing threats.”
Rigid contracts force guesswork, creating operational friction while the threat landscape accelerates. The model fails not because teams lack data, but because cost and control are misaligned.
A New Approach: DPM Flex Consumption
At Securonix, we saw an opportunity to rethink how data should power security.
Data Pipeline Manager (DPM) Flex Consumption transforms the economics of SIEM by aligning cost, control, and capability.
Instead of purchasing fixed ingestion per pipeline, you buy one entitlement, measured in gigabytes per day and apply it wherever you need it:
- Analytics for real-time detection
- Investigation for search and enrichment
- Basic for retention and compliance
The usage normalizes automatically behind the scenes—no penalties, no overages, no surprises. You stay in control and focus on what matters most: outcomes.
Why Flexibility Matters
Data demands fluctuate. From investigations to audits to seasonal peaks, traditional pricing punishes unpredictability. DPM Flex eliminates friction.
When activity surges, capacity shifts to analytics.
When workloads slow, data routes to cost-efficient tiers.
When audits approach, retention extends automatically, without contract renegotiation.
The result: your SOC stays agile, efficient, and ready.
What Businesses Are Achieving
Security teams shouldn’t be wasting time juggling ingestion limits or arguing over pipeline capacity. They should be focused on what matters: catching threats, investigating quickly, and staying compliant. Data Pipeline Manager Flex gives them that breathing room. It lets teams shift priorities without jumping through hoops or running into roadblocks. Organizations using DPM Flex are turning cost control into competitive advantage:
- Elastic Growth: A global retailer rebalanced telemetry during holiday peaks, maintaining compliance while controlling costs.
- Audit Efficiency: A financial institution scaled investigation capacity during quarterly audits, then automatically shifted back.
- Simplified MSSP Operations: Service providers applied one entitlement across multiple tenants, reducing billing friction and improving governance.
Across deployments, results lead to:
- 30–50% lower total cost of ownership
- 60% faster mean time to respond (MTTR)
- 2–3 hours per analyst per day reclaimed for high-value work
And being built on a cloud-native foundation with Snowflake and AWS and integrated into our Unified Defesne SIEM, they deliver:
- A unified data layer: store telemetry once, use it everywhere
- 365 days of always-hot data: search instantly, no rehydration
- Outcome-based pricing: align cost with value
The Future of Data Economics
In a world where data grows faster than threats, flexibility is the new force multiplier. DPM Flex enables you to scale intelligently, prove value continuously, and stay ahead of whatever comes next.
From cost center to strategic advantage, we’re empowering teams to use data smarter.
Learn more about Data Pipeline Manager Flex here.
