Case Study: Talion achieves rapid onboarding and 75% storage cost savings with Microsoft Azure (Azure Data Explorer)

Talion streamlines its cybersecurity offering with Azure Data Explorer

Talion, a UK-based managed security services provider, delivers security orchestration, threat intelligence and incident response for commercial and government clients. Its legacy stack caused expensive hosting, slow client onboarding (taking a week or more), storage capacity limits, frequent query timeouts and limited customer visibility—turning parts of its log management into a “black box.”

After a 2019 proof of concept, Talion adopted Azure Data Explorer (ADX) to provide per-tenant databases, long‑term retention and customer-facing dashboards powered by Kusto Query Language. The move cut long‑term storage costs by 75%, reduced onboarding from a week to a day or less, shrank scaling and capacity work from days to hours, enabled near‑instant scaling and richer analytics (Threat Hunting, UEBA), and delivered greater transparency and self‑service access for clients.

Talion

Moses Lim

Site Reliability Engineering Lead