Ep125: Bridging the gap between requirements and budget - Better data while still controlling costs

Ed Bailey, Field CISO at Cribl, shares how Cribl and AWS are helping customers rethink their data strategy by making it easier to modernize, reduce complexity, and unlock long-term flexibility.

Topics Include:

• Ed Bailey introduces topic: bridging gap between security data requirements and budget
• Companies face mismatch: 10TB data needs vs 5TB licensing budget constraints
• Data volumes growing exponentially while budgets remain relatively flat year-over-year
• IT security data differs from BI: enormous volume, variety, complexity
• Many companies discover 600+ data sources during SIEM migration projects
• 50% of SIEM data remains un-accessed within 90 days of ingestion
• Complex data collection architectures break frequently and require excessive maintenance
• Teams spend 80% time collecting data, only 20% analyzing for value
• Data collection and storage are costs; analytics and insights provide business value
• Poor data quality creates operational chaos requiring dozens of browser tabs
• SOC analysts struggle with context switching across multiple disconnected systems
• Traditional vendor approach: "give us all data, we'll solve problems" is outdated
• Data modernization requires sharing information widely across organizational business units
• Data maturity model progression: patchwork → efficiency → optimization → innovation
• Data tiering strategy: route expensive SIEM data vs cheaper data lake storage
• SIEM costs ~$1/GB while data lakes cost ~$0.15-0.20/GB for storage
• Compliance retention data should go to object storage at penny fractions
• Decouple data retention from vendor tools to enable migration flexibility
• Cribl platform offers integrated solutions: Stream, Search, Lake, Edge components
• Customer success: Siemens reduced 5TB to 500GB while maintaining security effectiveness

Participants:

• Edward Bailey – Field CISO, Cribl

Further Links:

• Cribl Website
• Cribl on AWS Marketplace

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