Case Study: SNC (aerospace & national security contractor) builds an in‑house SOC and scales to 10× data ingestion with Elastic Security

SNC establishes a robust, in-house security operations center with Elastic while scaling to ingest a tenfold increase in data

SNC, a leading aerospace and national security contractor, faced stringent government regulations, growing volumes of sensitive data, and a sluggish, expensive legacy SIEM managed by an external provider. The company needed faster, more efficient threat detection and the ability to directly protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) while scaling operations and reducing third‑party reliance.

By deploying Elastic Security on Microsoft Azure Government Cloud and moving to an in‑house SOC, SNC cut query times from minutes to seconds and scaled ingestion to ten times its previous volume (about a terabyte per day). Automation and case management improved analyst efficiency, proactive detection (including zero‑day threats) strengthened defenses, and consolidation reduced costs—allowing SNC to launch a cloud-based managed security service for smaller defense contractors and advance AI/ML initiatives.

SNC

Doug Russell

Director, Data Integration Strategies