EP197 SIEM (Decoupled or Not), and Security Data Lakes: A Google SecOps Perspective

Guest:  Travis Lanham, Uber Tech Lead (UTL) for Security Operations Engineering, Google Cloud Topics: There’s been a ton of discussion in the wake of the three SIEM week about the future of SIEM-like products. We saw a lot of takes on how this augurs the future of disassembled or decoupled SIEMs. Can you explain what these disassembled SIEMs are all about? What are the expected upsides of detaching your SIEM interface and security capabilities from your data backend? Tell us about the early days of SecOps (nee Chronicle) and why we didn’t go with this approach? What are the upsides of a tightly coupled datastore + security experience for a SIEM? Are there more risks or negatives of the decoupled/decentralized approach?  Complexity and the need to assemble “at home” are on the list, right? One of the 50 things Google knew to be true back in the day was that product innovation comes from technical innovation, what’s the technical innovation driving decoupled SIEMs? So what about those security data lakes? Any insights? Resources: EP139 What is Chronicle? Beyond XDR and into the Next Generation of Security Operations EP190 Unraveling the Security Data Fabric: Need, Benefits, and Futures EP184 One Week SIEM Migration: Fact or Fiction? Hacking Google video series Decoupled SIEM: Brilliant or …. Not :-) UNC5537 Targets Snowflake Customer Instances for Data Theft and Extortion So, Why Did I Join Chronicle Security? (2019)