Quantifying Risk in the SOC: From Analyst Actions to Measurable Impact

How much value are you really getting from your logs, and what are you giving up to stay on budget?
In this episode of Logs and Lattes, host Palmer Wallace sits down with Seth Goldhammer, VP of Product Management at Graylog, for a candid conversation about the hidden cost of traditional SIEM pricing. Seth explains how ingest-based and resource-heavy licensing models pressure security teams into tough tradeoffs, such as dropping logs, tuning down detections, or limiting retention just to avoid budget overages.

Full Episode
https://youtu.be/c7he-teNdO8

These tradeoffs don’t just affect compliance. They directly impact your visibility, detection capabilities, and response time. As Seth puts it, when you drop data, you drop context. And that missing context can turn a minor oversight into a major blind spot.
Thankfully, there’s a smarter way forward. Graylog’s flexible data routing allows security teams to prioritize the data that powers threat detection, while retaining the rest cost-effectively in a standby data lake. That means better decisions, better investigations, and no compromise on visibility.
Learn how to escape the tradeoff trap and get the most out of your security data. Explore Graylog Security to take a "SIEM Without Compromise" approach to threat detection and response.

More on this topic:
https://graylog.org/post/the-visibility-vs-cost-trap-a-dangerous-tradeoff/