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Published on Sep 1, 2026 • 14 min read
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How Much of My SIEM Data Do Detection Rules Actually Use? What We Learned From CloudTrail
We ran all 55 public Sigma rules for AWS CloudTrail against a month of our own logs. Four broad rules needed every event, but across all rules only about 18% of each record's bytes were ever read. Here's what that means for cutting SIEM data and costs without blinding your detections.
Oct 19, 2026 • 11 min read
The Noise Tax: Why Most SIEM Spend Goes to Data That Never Triggers a Detection
The noise tax is the share of your SIEM bill spent on data no detection rule reads and no analyst queries. Here's where it comes from, how to measure it, and how to cut SIEM costs 30–40% without losing detection coverage.
Oct 13, 2026 • 6 min read
How to Explain SIEM Costs to Your CFO Without Losing the Security Budget
SIEM bills grow with log volume, not results. Here's how to audit your ingest, cut the waste, and show your CFO what security spend actually buys.
Oct 9, 2026 • 11 min read
Oct 6, 2026 • 8 min read
Fleak vs. Cribl: A Total Cost of Ownership Comparison
Oct 5, 2026 • 8 min read
Data Mapping vs. Schema Mapping: What's the Difference?
Oct 2, 2026 • 6 min read
What Is Schema Mapping in Security and Observability Data Pipelines?
Mar 19, 2026 • 13 min read
The Data Normalization Problem Nobody Talks About
Mar 18, 2026 • 6 min read
The Intelligence Upgrade: How AI-Native Data Fabrics Are Solving Security's Core Data Problem
Feb 19, 2026 • 4 min read
Breaking the ‘Intelligence Ceiling’: How Gruve and Fleak Achieved Tier 3 Threat Detection Fidelity
Jan 19, 2026 • 5 min read
The Observability Interpretation Layer: Decoupling Routing from Intelligence
Jan 8, 2026 • 6 min read
The First Mile Gap: Why Your Autonomous Systems Know Everything but Understand Nothing
Jan 7, 2026 • 4 min read
An Engineering Approach to OCSF Log Normalization
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