Case Study: Industrial Automation Manufacturer achieves 50% cost savings with Cribl Stream

Industrial Automation Manufacturer cuts SIEM costs by 50% with Cribl

The customer, an industrial automation manufacturer, faced significant challenges due to its complex technology environment, which included four disparate SIEM tools accumulated through mergers and acquisitions. This sprawl created data silos, massive inefficiencies, and substantial costs, with data locked in proprietary formats leading to severe vendor lock-in. The Director of Security Operations sought a solution to gain control over their data and turned to the vendor, Cribl, implementing its Cribl Stream product.

Using Cribl Stream as middleware, the manufacturer migrated from its four legacy SIEMs to Microsoft Sentinel and Azure Data Explorer in just three months. The solution from Cribl provided the flexibility to manipulate, reduce, and route data, which resulted in a 50% reduction in data storage costs and equivalent SIEM license savings. Additionally, the company cut its engineering spend in half, re-deployed personnel to more valuable work, and gained powerful capabilities for data obfuscation to meet GDPR requirements.