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• Traditional vendor approach: "give us all data, we'll solve problems" is outdated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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