Today, I’m excited to announce that Snowflake has invested in Anvilogic. In this post, I’ll explain why we’re excited to be doubling down on our strategic partnership and what this means to enterprise security teams, especially in light of major market shifts in the SIEM market last week.

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Monolithic SIEMs Are Struggling to Survive‍

The mergers of Exabeam with LogRhythm and Palo Alto Networks with QRadar, following Cisco's recent acquisition of Splunk, illustrate how traditional SIEM vendors are struggling to survive and opting to exit the market. With a major portion of SIEM deployments changing ownership and in some cases being forced to migrate to a new SIEM, customer uncertainty has never been higher. 

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SIEM Vendor Lock-in Holds Back Enterprise Security Teams

Due to the astronomically high cost of ingest-based licensing models of monolithic SIEMs, it’s common to see less than half of security-relevant data get sent to the SIEM. Data that does not get sent to the SIEM - dark data - is unavailable for threat detection, causing significant risks to organizations. This leaves security operations teams struggling to detect high-risk threats in their environment while simultaneously managing spiraling SIEM licensing costs. As enterprises shift more workloads to the cloud, the infrastructure required to support and scale the volumes compounds the issue. The cost to ingest and retain data with all the major SIEM providers today, has forced everyone to accept this reality and turn to more cost-effective storage and compute alternatives to help manage their costs. However, this creates even more silos and doesn't proactively address detection gaps. Flexibility is a tremendous asset during this time of uncertainty, and threat detection needs to be redefined without vendor lock-in constraints.

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Ripping-and-Replacing Legacy SIEMs Isn’t Practical for Enterprise Security Teams

“Next-Gen SIEMs” have entered the market with a lot of promises and flashy new dashboards, but they force a complete replacement of customers' existing SIEM investments. This is incredibly challenging to put forward or, in many cases, impossible for many organizations that have invested heavily in SIEMs like Splunk even outside the security organization. Similarly, “platformization” from established vendors forces a homogenization of the entire tech stack thereby leading to the next vendor lock-in - this is not ideal nor viable for enterprises. Anvilogic has found a way to take what our customers have with their Splunk deployments and realize additional value by wrapping the best cloud data platform, Snowflake, with our multi-data platform solution that allows customers to deploy detections, hunt, and investigate seamlessly across those platforms.  Our first-to-market multi-data platform SIEM is the best solution for effective threat detection across cloud, EDR, network, and all the data sources that could never be covered by the traditional monolithic SIEMs. Anvilogic bridges the gap between incumbent SIEMs and modern cloud data lakes, making it easier for security teams to leverage the benefits of Snowflake without having to rip and replace what they have today.

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Gen AI Uses Cases Are Making It Easier to Adopt More Cost-Effective Data Platforms‍

The good news is that cloud data platforms have seen incredible innovations over the past several years. Security organizations that have embraced Snowflake are seeing per TB costs drop by over 80%. Anvilogic operationalizes the data lake for the SOC together with their existing SIEM so that a Splunk or Azure customer can get a top-notch SIEM experience with an unparalleled and quantifiable detection engineering lifecycle impact, a Gen AI Copilot at their side and thousands of pre-built rules all unified across their existing platform and the cost-effective and scalable data lakes in AWS, Azure & GCP. We put AI at the very forefront to provide health, tuning, and hunting insights as well as automate SecOps efforts across triage and investigations. Our Monte Copilot AI Chatbot is a true delight to our user base as it enhances the Anvilogic Platform experience, enabling users to ask questions and obtain concise summarizations about any of the incidents they take on, as well as deploy and fine-tune better detections without requiring expertise in SQL, SPL, or KQL.

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Snowflake's investment in Anvilogic signifies a transformative shift in the SIEM market. We are proud to partner with an organization that can help redefine and unleash what Security Operations Centers have been holding back in recent years. Our partnership offers enterprise security teams a flexible, cost-effective solution that not only bridges the gap but sets a path forward between legacy systems and modern cloud data platforms so leaders can confidently join the rest of the enterprise in the modern data tech stack. With Gen AI-led insights automating tedious SecOps tasks and seamless cross-technology integrations, we are empowering organizations to lead their organizations with impact and accountability, free from monolithic architectural lock-in implications. 

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Let the new SIEM era begin!

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‍Karthik Kannan

CEO / Founder

Anvilogic

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