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How a Security Data Fabric Can Cut SIEM Costs and Streamline Detection

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Security leaders today are under pressure from all sides. As organizations adopt more cloud services, endpoint agents, and third-party tools, the volume and complexity of security data have exploded, often faster than teams can keep up. A modern Security Operations Center (SOC) might be pulling telemetry from dozens of sources, including EDRs, firewalls, identity platforms, SaaS applications, and cloud infrastructure. Each of these tools creates data in its own format, with varying levels of fidelity and relevance.

The result? Security teams are inundated with noise. Recent industry research shows that the average enterprise SOC now fields over 4,000 alerts per day, with some reporting upward of 100,000 daily alerts depending on scale and maturity. Worse still, over 67% of alerts are never investigated, simply because analysts are overwhelmed. This volume isn't tapering off, either—many organizations have seen alert traffic increase 300–500% over the last two years, flooding detection pipelines and exhausting human resources.

At the same time, the cost of managing this deluge is spiraling out of control. SIEM and XDR platforms, often priced by daily data ingestion, are struggling to keep up. Enterprises generating 1–10 TB of logs daily can easily spend millions of dollars each year on ingestion and storage. Even moderate-sized deployments, at 100 GB/day, can run $150,000 per year in licensing fees alone. As log volume growth averages 50%+ year over year, security leaders are being forced to rethink how they collect, store, and route their data to avoid budget overruns and operational bottlenecks.

For many teams, it's a losing battle. Detection engineers are spending more time tuning pipelines and reducing false positives than proactively hunting threats. Storage strategies are becoming fragmented—part SIEM, part cloud archive, part MDR feed. And migrating from one platform to another only adds complexity, often requiring months of manual work.

These are no longer just technical growing pains. They’re operational risks. When your security data is fragmented, duplicative, and costly to manage, it affects everything from detection and response to compliance and executive reporting.

That’s why forward-thinking security teams are adopting a new architectural approach: the security data fabric.

How a Security Data Fabric Solves Today’s Operational Challenges

Security teams don’t need another generic data pipeline. They need a way to bring structure to the chaos, without rewriting every integration or building a metadata empire from scratch.

That’s what a security data fabric is designed to do.

While firms like Gartner describe data fabric as an architectural approach to unify and automate data delivery through metadata and AI, most security leaders know the reality: they’re already drowning in data, and they can’t afford to wait 18 months for a theoretical metadata model to pay off.

Realm’s perspective is different. We believe a security data fabric should help your team act faster today, not just plan better tomorrow.

A purpose-built security data fabric delivers:

  • Fabric Creation at the Point of Ingest - Connect all your log sources once, then normalize, suppress, enrich, and reroute data before it overwhelms your tools. No agents. No code. No brittle regex scripts.
  • Destination Control That Puts You Back in Charge - Send only the high-value logs to your SIEM. Route raw telemetry to a low-cost archive. Feed alerts to your MDR. All from one control plane—so you get full visibility without the complexity of a full stack.
  • Continuity of Operations - Pipelines break. Tools go down. Formats change. Realm monitors and maintains the health of your data flow in real-time, so your team isn’t flying blind during a critical incident.
Instead of letting your tools dictate how your data flows, a security data fabric gives you centralized, intelligent control over what data moves where, how it's shaped, and what context it carries.

Why Security Leaders Are Making the Shift

A security data fabric isn’t just about convenience; it’s about operational and financial survival. The benefits extend well beyond the SOC:

  • Lower Ingestion and Storage Costs - Cut SIEM and XDR expenses by routing only essential data to high-cost platforms. Many organizations reduce ingestion volumes by 50–70% without losing visibility.
  • Faster Incident Response and Reduced Alert Fatigue - Enriched, de-duplicated, and normalized logs enable analysts to triage incidents more efficiently and avoid wasting time on irrelevant data. You see the signal, not the noise.
  • Freedom to Evolve Your Stack - Thinking of switching SIEMs or testing a new XDR? A data fabric acts as an abstraction layer, so you can swap tools without re-engineering your entire logging strategy.
  • Operational Resilience Built-In - No more chasing down broken API calls or silent log drops. Realm keeps your telemetry flowing—and your team focused on defending, not firefighting.

How Realm.Security Makes the Security Data Fabric Work—for You

At Realm.Security, we’ve walked in your shoes. We built Realm because we were tired of bloated SIEM bills, brittle log pipelines, and complex “data platforms” that required a team of engineers just to operate.

Realm isn’t another general-purpose observability tool. It’s a security data fabric designed from the ground up for lean, modern security teams—especially those that can’t afford to spend months building and maintaining custom integrations.

With Realm, your team can:

  • Connect Once, Route Anywhere - Ingest data from any source—EDR, firewalls, cloud platforms—and decide exactly what gets sent where. Route detections to your SIEM, raw logs to low-cost storage, and alerts to your MDR provider, all from a single interface.
  • Streamline Workflows Across the Org - Give each team the data they need, formatted the way they need it, without building duplicate pipelines or managing competing integrations.
  • Adapt Without Starting Over - Switching SIEMs? Testing a new analytics tool? Realm makes migrations easy by decoupling your data architecture from your detection tools.
  • Maintain Visibility and Reliability - Built-in monitoring and error handling ensure data keeps flowing, so you don’t miss a threat or fail an SLA because of a silent failure.
Realm delivers centralized visibility, intelligent routing, and cost control—without the complexity. Whether you're scaling fast or consolidating tools, we give you the foundation to act faster, spend smarter, and stay in control of your data.

Up Next: How to Build a Security Data Fabric That Delivers

Now that you understand the why, the next step is execution. In the next post, we’ll walk through a practical framework for building your security data fabric—from identifying the right data sources and destinations to aligning stakeholders, defining success metrics, and getting quick wins without months of prep.

Ready to Take Control of Your Security Data?

If your team is struggling with overwhelming alert volumes, rising SIEM costs, or tangled integrations, you're not alone—and you’re not stuck. A security data fabric can provide you with the control, clarity, and flexibility your operations require.

See how Realm.Security can help you streamline your security data strategy without the complexity. Schedule a demo today!