Solution Brief

Optimize your SIEM Solutions
with Confluent
Combine your security platforms and the most widely adopted real-time data streaming platform to thwart cyber criminals
and modernize your cybersecurity posture. Confluent’s solution for SIEM optimization augments your cybersecurity platforms tobreak down silos and deliver contextually rich data to be more situationally aware. With Confluent, you can gain world-classdata ingestion and analytics while optimizing for cost and scale. Achieve independence from any given SIEM vendor, and gain
the ability to leverage multiple tools and analytic destinations for greater cyber resilience.

Design a next-gen
cybersecurity
data infrastructurewith a real-time
SIEM pipeline

Enable threat
detection and dataengineering at theedge or point ofcollection forcontextually richinsights

Mitigate the impact
of increasing data
storage and analysis
costs that force
tradeoffs between
cost, flexibility andvisibility

Gain unprecedented
flexibility to choose
your own data destiny,
regardless of source ordestination, eliminate
lock-in and enable bestof breed

Why Optimize Your Cybersecurity Solutions?
Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) tools have become
ubiquitous in enterprise security operations to detect attacks, investigate security incidents and ensure timely response. Their ability to doso is predicated on the fidelity and speed at which they receive data.
The growing diversity, velocity and exponential volume of security data have rendered legacy SIEM technologies incapable of dealing withthe current requirements of Information Security (InfoSec) teams and Security Operations Centers (SOCs).
The need to augment and modernize SIEM solutions is driven by 3 main factors—scale, speed and cost:• Scale Capture and curate data at wire speed and petabyte scale across distributed environments that conventional

ingest approaches cannot keep up with• Speed Detect, filter and enrich data to deliver real-time situational awareness, reduce false positives and respond toincident and threats faster• Cost Avoid vendor lock-in from expensive proprietary tools and utilize a tiered data model to minimize software andinfrastructure costs©2021 Confluent, Inc. | confluent.io1

SIEM Optimization Solution BriefConfluent for SIEM Optimization
Confluent offers an enterprise-ready data in motion platform to capture, analyze and deliver ubiquitous access to any type of data,everywhere. With Confluent, organizations can bridge the gap between old-school SIEM solutions and next-gen offerings by consolidating,categorizing and enriching all data and real-time events from relevant data sources for real-time monitoring, security forensics and anenhanced cybersecurity posture.

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Confluent: The global data backbone for next-gen cybersecurity infrastructure

Move from Batch to Real-time atStream Scale

Save Money in License and Infrastructure Costs
and Reduce your Overall TCO

Ingest, aggregate, and store a diverse and growing set of security
event and sensor data into a single distributed, scalable, andpersistent platform. Confluent delivers pre-built connectors
such as Splunk, Elasticsearch, SNMP, Syslog, AWS Cloudwatch
and others to consolidate siloed systems, saving you months ofintegration effort and empowering your teams to unlock insights
even faster. Designed for high performance at massive scale,
Confluent can handle trillions of messages per day and petabytes
of data effortlessly in real-time, enabling you to move from batchprocessing to real-time at Intrusion Detection System (IDS) speedswith stream data velocity and volume.

Using Confluent as the real-time data pipeline to your SIEM andSOAR solutions, you can aggregate and filter events to reduce
ingest and index volume, overall licensing expenses and retention
costs that often come with consumption-rate, volume-based
pricing. Confluent also reduces the need for proprietary or evenintermediary forwarders like the Splunk Heavy Forwarder withSplunk S2S Connector to reduce overall operating expenses andgain centralized visibility. Use Confluent’s portfolio of 120+ pre-built
connectors to route your data with full fidelity to low-cost storage
systems, including Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob
storage, Snowflake, HBase and others, for long term retention.

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SIEM Optimization Solution BriefImprove Data Quality and Increase Speed toDetection and Resolution

Achieve Unprecedented Flexibility andFreedom of Choice

Confluent delivers sophisticated stream processing capabilities
to curate, enrich, transform and normalize data in real-time.
Filter noisy data by suppressing and masking events that do notcontribute to incident detection and investigation. Apply simple
business logic such as stateless filtering or stateful aggregations,or design complex business rules with custom code or separate rules
engine. Train and bring ML/AI models to your data by embedding
analytics models to apply real-time context and aid richer threat andanomaly detection, intrusion prevention, investigation and real-time
analysis. Push processing to edge and point of collection to reduce

Whether you’re looking to migrate off an old SIEM solution,
intelligently route your data to multiple different destinations likeSplunk, Elastic, Datadog, Prometheus and New Relic, have lowvalue data that does not need to go to an expensive SIEM platformor store your data in cheaper storage for compliance and reporting,
Confluent delivers the ultimate flexibility. Route your data to any
destination of your liking, while maintaining full fidelity of data ina vendor-agnostic format to eliminate vendor lock-in. Democratize
access to data to leverage best of breed tools to strengthen
cybersecurity and unlock multiple real-time use cases.

latency and deliver insights faster.

As cyber threats continuously grow in sophistication and frequency,
companies need to quickly acclimate to effectively detect, respond,and protect their environments. At Intel, we’ve addressed this needby implementing a modern, scalable Cyber Intelligence Platform (CIP) basedon Splunk and Confluent. We believe that CIP positions us for the best defense
against cyber threats well into the future.
Our CIP ingests tens of terabytes of data each day and transforms it into
actionable insights through streams processing, context-smart applications,andadvanced analytics techniques. Kafka serves as a massive data pipeline within
the platform. It provides us the ability to operate on data in-stream, enabling
us to reduce Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Respond (MTTR).
Faster detection and response ultimately leads to better prevention.
— Brent Conran, Chief Information Security Officer©2021 Confluent, Inc. | confluent.io3