Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms serve as the backbone of many organizations' security operations. However, as business needs change and technologies advance, many companies find themselves facing the complex challenge of migrating from one SIEM solution to another.
Whether you're transitioning from IBM QRadar to Google SecOps, moving from an on-premises solution to a cloud-based platform, or simply upgrading to a more capable system, SIEM migration presents numerous challenges that can impact your security posture, operational efficiency, and bottom line.
The Real Challenges of SIEM Migration
Migrating a SIEM isn't just about moving data from one platform to another. It involves reconfiguring detection rules, maintaining visibility during the transition, and ensuring that your security team doesn't miss critical alerts while adapting to a new system.
Some of the key challenges organizations face during SIEM migration include:
Loss of prior correlations and rules: Reconfiguring threat detection mechanisms between platforms can leave security gaps.
Lack of external context: Traditional SIEMs rely primarily on internal data sources, limiting visibility into external threats during transition periods.
Alert noise and false positives: New systems often require tuning to avoid overwhelming analysts with irrelevant alerts.
Coverage gaps: Migration processes can introduce blind spots in threat detection capabilities.
High ingestion and storage costs: SIEM vendors typically charge based on data volume, making unfiltered migrations prohibitively expensive.
Introducing a Better Way to Migrate
This is where Onum comes in. Our real-time data intelligence platform serves as a bridge during your SIEM migration, ensuring you maintain complete visibility while optimizing costs and enhancing your security posture.
Parallel Data Processing That Preserves Your Security Posture
Onum enables a gradual, controlled migration approach rather than forcing a "big bang" cutover. By processing data in real-time at the source, Onum can:
Route data to multiple destinations simultaneously: Send security events to both your existing and new SIEM platforms, allowing you to validate detection rules before fully transitioning.
Transform data formats on the fly: Normalize data between platforms (e.g., QRadar, Splunk, Google SecOps, Microsoft Sentinel) to ensure seamless compatibility.
Maintain consistent event correlation: Enable threat detection across multiple platforms during the transition period, eliminating security blind spots.
Cost Optimization Through Intelligent Data Management
One of the biggest migration challenges is managing costs while maintaining security effectiveness. Onum addresses this by:
Filtering and optimizing data before ingestion: Reduce data volume by up to 50% by eliminating redundant or low-value logs.
Dynamic data routing: Apply intelligent filtering at the source to send only relevant security events to your analytics platforms.
Data quality assurance: Ensure that only security-relevant events are stored and analyzed, reducing storage requirements and query times.
Enhanced Security Through Real-Time Enrichment
Beyond simply facilitating migration, Onum elevates your security capabilities by:
Providing external threat intelligence: Complement your SIEM with real-time data from the deep/dark web, information about malicious domains, and leaked credential monitoring.
Enriching logs at the point of ingest: Add valuable context before logs reach your SIEM, improving detection accuracy and analyst efficiency.
Enabling real-time alerting: Detect and respond to threats in milliseconds rather than minutes, reducing mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR).
Real-World Success: A Controlled Migration Case Study
Consider the experience of Azimut, a company that needed to migrate from IBM QRadar to Google SecOps. Their main challenges included high migration costs, rigid timelines, and potential operational risks during the transition.
By implementing Onum as part of their migration strategy, Azimut was able to:
Control their migration timeline: Instead of a rushed cutover, they migrated use cases step by step while maintaining security coverage.
Optimize costs during the transition: They reduced QRadar's data volume while gradually shifting operations to Google SecOps, cutting migration costs by 50%.
Eliminate downtime risks: Parallel processing ensured zero loss of detection capabilities during the transition.
Enhance their overall security posture: Real-time data enrichment improved threat detection capabilities beyond what either SIEM could achieve alone.
Why Wait to Get Value From Your SIEM Migration?
You can't afford to compromise security or efficiency during a SIEM migration. With Onum, you don't have to choose between a quick transition and a secure one.
Our platform gives you complete control over your migration timing and costs while minimizing risks and enabling a smooth, step-by-step transition to your new SIEM platform. By processing data at the source, Onum enables real-time decisions in milliseconds—not minutes—while simplifying complex workflows and cutting costs.
Ready to transform your SIEM migration from a risky, expensive project into a strategic opportunity to enhance your security operations? Schedule a demo to learn how Onum can help you navigate your migration journey with confidence.
