Splunk is a powerful tool for analyzing security data and performing threat detection, providing invaluable insights for security teams. However, many organizations only store a few weeks of log data thus limiting their visibility. This is where Scanner steps in to help.

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Ingesting high-volume log sources into Splunk can be prohibitively expensive. Logs such as AWS CloudTrail, Cloudflare HTTP and DNS, and Windows Event logs often generate massive amounts of data. Just one of these log sources can lead to costs reaching six or even seven figures annually when ingested directly into Splunk.

As a result of these high costs, most organizations resort to retaining only select log sources and for a very limited time period. This significantly limits their visibility and introduces increased risk.

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Scanner's security data lake augments your existing Splunk deployment by addressing two pain points: retaining unlimited log data and accelerating long-term data investigations.

Unlimited Log Data

Instead of ingesting high-volume logs directly into Splunk, Scanner allows you to store these logs in S3. Simply point Scanner at your S3 buckets, and it will organize the raw logs and provide fast, efficient search capabilities. This approach leads to highly cost efficient log retention for much improved visibility and risk reduction.

Hyper Fast Search

Scanner can search petabytes of log data in mere seconds.  We also make it easy to retain and query long-term data. Store your long-term logs in S3, and use Scanner to quickly search through them. Unlike Amazon Athena, which is often used to search S3-stored logs but can be slow—especially with raw log formats like JSON—Scanner optimizes your data for fast searches. Scanner automatically organizes raw logs, building indexes to optimize search performance. This eliminates the need for labor-intensive big data engineering projects that teams otherwise need to undertake to optimize Athena.

Easy Full-Text Search

Scanner's schema-less approach provides a highly flexible search engine. Easily search for any text anywhere in your logs without having to write complex queries.

Control Your Own Data

Your logs stay in your own S3 buckets. This allows you to maintain custody of your own data and avoid vendor lock-in.

Deploy in a Day

Building your own data lake can seem daunting and difficult. Scanner makes it easy. Our tools let you ingest and build your own security data lake in as little as an afternoon.

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