Chaos to Clarity: How the Huntress Community Helped Transform SIEM

Like any saga, there are highs and lows. SIEM was hailed as a savior for gathering, storing, detecting and reporting log data. Yet, users soon discovered that SIEM wasn’t as all-powerful as believed. The 2022 Cybersecurity Insiders SIEM Report revealed common obstacles, including:

Despite its benefits, SIEM remained noisy, hard to use and complex to deploy. Change was necessary, but achieving it wasn’t easy.

The Evolution of SIEM
To better serve its users, SIEM had to evolve. This transformation led to the development of managed detection and response (MDR), shifting management requirements to vendors. While MDR promised improvements, it wasn’t without drawbacks. For instance, the State of SIEM 2021 report shows that:

In short, SIEM users faced high costs, limited functionality and log volume problems. To find impactful solutions, we turned to the most heroic source — our security community.

We surveyed more than 200 Huntress community members to understand the most common SIEM challenges they face:

We heard you loud and clear, and now we’ve reached the turning point.

A Turning Point

Introducing Huntress Managed SIEM, the solution born from community feedback and built to address your daily challenges. This next generation of SIEM simplifies security management with continuous monitoring, efficient control and effective data collection — all within a financially viable framework. We built it from the ground up with three core principles in mind:

By focusing on these concepts, Managed SIEM delivers distinct capabilities that set it apart in the market.

Smart Filtering
Smart Filtering sharpens your search scope, cutting through noise before it even starts. While traditional log collection gathers all data first and then filters it, Smart Filtering reverses this process. It’s like isolating a specific star in a galaxy with a star map instead of trying to find it with the naked eye. By narrowing the data scope at the start, Managed SIEM helps you cut through the noise more efficiently, saving time and effort.

Predictable Pricing
SIEM pricing has often been a major barrier, especially for smaller businesses. Traditional pricing models lean heavily toward consumption-based methodologies, where costs can quickly escalate. Managed SIEM flips the script by focusing on relevant data sources and filtering out excess noise. This approach reduces your costs without compromising the quality of your log data.

A Seamless Partnership
Managed SIEM has been designed as a solution that feels more like a partnership rather than just another product. It was built from the ground up with your experiences, needs and insights placed front and center. 

A New Beginning for SIEM
SIEM no longer needs to be an unwieldy, expensive platform. We heard you and answered with Managed SIEM, a human-centric solution for human-sized problems.

Huntress Managed SIEM empowers you — the real hero of the story. If you are interested in learning more about this solution, you can request a demo or trial it for free.This guest blog is part of a Channel Futures sponsorship.