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Every business builds strong defences to keep attackers out. Firewalls and DDoS protection serve that purpose, standing guard over company apps and websites, like knights at the castle gate keeping out trolls (not just the ones on X). But here’s the problem: those defences only work if users actually walk through the front gate. Sometimes, people find hidden paths or side doors around your walls, so the guards never see them enter.

We recently delivered a webinar titled IT/OT Convergence: Proactive Threat Detection for Industrial Control Systems (also available via Brighttalk).

Today, more than ever, organizations face a difficult balancing act: how to keep sensitive data fully under their control while still making it accessible and usable so teams can unlock the value and insights they need. Industries such as financial services, healthcare, and government agencies often must comply with strict regulations that require data to remain in environments they directly own and manage.

Logstash has been a workhorse in data processing pipelines for years, but it was not designed with today’s security operations in mind. Security teams now deal with massive telemetry volumes, rising SIEM costs, and diverse log formats that require constant normalization. In this environment, Logstash shows its age: manual configuration, outdated parsing, and scalability bottlenecks introduce fragility instead of efficiency.