7AI vs. SIEM
A SIEM is a system of record. The question is how much you pay to centralize everything before anyone can investigate it. 7AI agents query data where it was born.
| Time | Source | OCSF class | Principal | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22:13:51Z | OkOkta | authentication | w.bryant@okami-ai.com | INVALID_CREDENTIALS · 185.220.101.45 |
| 22:12:47Z | OkOkta | authentication | s.thompson@okami-ai.com | INVALID_CREDENTIALS · 185.220.101.45 |
| 22:11:34Z | OkOkta | authentication | mikael.eriksson@okami-ai.com | PASSWORD_RESET_REQUIRED · 185.220.101.45 |
| 22:09:13Z | OkOkta | authentication | j.harrington@okami-ai.com | INVALID_CREDENTIALS · 185.220.101.45 |
| Apr 5 14:23:11Z | CSCrowdStrike Falcon | detection_finding | NBK-MERIK-01 | LummaC2 · T1555.003 Credentials from Web Browsers · high |
Why teams start looking
The bill grows with the gigabyte, not with the outcome.
Security teams tell us the same three things. The ingest bill climbs every year. The data they actually want is too expensive to onboard, so it never makes it in. And after all that collecting, indexing, and storing, every alert still waits for a person to investigate it. None of that is a flaw in your team. It is the economics of centralize-first.
Two models
What changes when investigation goes to the data, instead of the data coming to the investigation.
Centralize first, ask questions later.
The SIEM approach was designed for a world where humans run the queries, so everything had to live in one place first. Move the data, index it, store it, then search it. Cost scales with volume, not with value. The sources you cannot afford to onboard become the questions you cannot ask.
- Every gigabyte is paid for before it answers anything.
- High volume, low value sources price out the data you want.
- Storage and correlation still leave investigation to people.
Data travels to the platform. People travel to the data. The meter runs the whole way.
7AI agents investigate where the data was born: EDR, identity, email, cloud, and your SIEM. Nothing is duplicated to be understood.
Investigate where the data lives.
7AI Federated Search reaches into your tools and asks the question there. Agents pull exactly what an investigation needs, when it needs it, from the source of truth for each signal. Your SIEM stays one of those sources, queried for correlation and enrichment, not bypassed.
- Query in place across EDR, identity, email, cloud, and SIEM.
- No bulk duplication of logs to a second home.
- Noisy sources can stop flowing to premium ingest first.
| Source Name | Status | Last Received | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| OkOkta | ACTIVE | Just Now | 4.5 GB |
| CSCrowdStrike | ACTIVE | Just Now | 18.0 GB |
| MSMicrosoft Sentinel | ACTIVE | Just Now | 120.0 GB |
| AWSAWS CloudTrail | ACTIVE | Yesterday | 7.0 GB |
| DefMicrosoft Defender | ACTIVE | 2 Days Ago | 14.0 GB |
| WizWiz | ACTIVE | 4 Days Ago | 2.0 GB |
Detection that keeps up with every source.
A SIEM stores and correlates. It does not investigate. 7AI takes each alert from source to a determination you can read, with the evidence attached and humans on the loop. That is the work that never got cheaper no matter how much you centralized.
- Rules mapped across EDR, identity, cloud, and your SIEM.
- Coverage and gaps visible in one place.
- Tuned continuously as sources change.
| Source & Rule | Type | MITRE ATT&CK | Recent Detections |
|---|---|---|---|
| DefUser Reported Phishing | Custom | T1566 PhishingT1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment | 798 |
| SplHigh Risk Okta Login | Custom | T1078 Valid AccountsT1110 Brute Force | 1,170 |
| 7AIPassword Spray | Custom | T1110 Brute ForceT1110.003 Password Spraying | 1,000 |
| CSSoftware Vulnerability Detected | Custom | T1190 Exploit Public-Facing AppT1068 Privilege Escalation | 402 |
| S1Unusual Network Traffic | Custom | T1071 Application Layer ProtocolT1048 Exfiltration Alt Protocol | 324 |
| 7AIImpossible Travel | Custom | T1078 Valid AccountsT1078.004 Cloud Accounts | 348 |
Coexistence, by design
Three ways teams actually do this.
Almost nobody rips out a SIEM on day one, and we would not suggest it. A SIEM is a valuable source of data and correlation. What changes is how much you pay to keep everything in one place.
Run in parallel
Keep the SIEM exactly as it is. 7AI agents query it alongside every other tool as a first class source. Nothing about your data strategy has to change to get agentic investigation.
Put less data in
Point agents at data where it was born and stop sending high volume, low value sources to premium ingest. The SIEM keeps the data that earns its seat. The savings compound monthly.
Move bit by bit
Shift sources over time toward lower cost storage while investigation runs federated. Retention stays intact for compliance. Some teams eventually replace; most simply shrink what they centralize.
Proof at scale
The work gets done either way. Here is the scale.
Questions
7AI and SIEM, answered.
Do I have to replace my SIEM to use 7AI?
No. 7AI treats your SIEM as a first class data source. Agents query it for correlation and enrichment alongside your other tools. Many customers change nothing about their SIEM and still get every alert investigated to a conclusion.
How does 7AI reduce SIEM costs?
By investigating data where it was born, 7AI removes the need to send every source to premium ingest just to make it searchable. Teams typically start by diverting the noisiest, lowest value sources and keep the SIEM for the data that deserves centralizing.
What is federated search?
Federated search means the query travels to the data instead of the data traveling to the query. 7AI agents reach into each tool, from EDR to identity to cloud to the SIEM itself, and pull exactly what an investigation needs at the moment it needs it.
What about compliance and retention?
Retention requirements do not change. Data that must be kept can live in low cost storage while investigation runs federated on top. Keeping data and paying premium prices to index it are two different decisions.
Does 7AI work with my existing SIEM?
Yes. 7AI connects to the SIEMs security teams actually run, reads alerts from them, and queries them during investigations. The platform is vendor agnostic by design.
Is 7AI a SIEM?
7AI is agentic security: AI agents that investigate, respond, and hunt across your environment, with humans on the loop. For teams that want it, 7AI also offers low cost federated storage for data that has no affordable home today, so visibility no longer depends on what you can afford to ingest.
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