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Security Data Consulting
Your security program is only as good as the data underneath it. Curation, modeling, and normalization — built on open standards.
Data is the foundation
Detections, analytics, threat hunting, AI — everything in a modern security operation sits on top of data. When that data is inconsistent, redundant, or trapped in proprietary formats, everything above it gets more expensive and less effective. We are experts in cybersecurity data curation, modeling, and normalization, with deep expertise in the open standards that make security data portable: STIX, OCSF, TAXII, SIGMA, and more.
We help you get the most out of the data you are already gathering — and discover and onboard new sources you may not have realized are valuable to your threat management program. The result: better detections, simpler analytics, lower platform costs, and no vendor lock-in on the thing that matters most.
How we work
Inventory
Map what you collect today, what it costs, and what questions it can answer.
Model
Design a normalized schema strategy built on open standards, not vendor formats.
Optimize
Curate sources, cut redundant ingest, and route data to the right storage tier.
Enable
Unlock portable detections and analytics on top of the clean foundation.
Frequently asked questions
What is OCSF and why does it matter?
The Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework is an open, vendor-agnostic schema for security events. Normalizing your telemetry to a common schema makes detections portable, analytics simpler, and tool migrations far less painful — your data stops being locked into any one vendor's format.
Can better data modeling actually reduce our SIEM costs?
Often, yes. SIEM pricing is usually volume-based, and much of what teams ingest is redundant, unparsed, or never queried. Curating what you collect, normalizing it once, and routing it to the right tier of storage frequently cuts ingest costs while improving detection quality.
What are STIX, TAXII, and SIGMA?
STIX is an open standard for describing threat intelligence; TAXII is the transport for exchanging it; SIGMA is a vendor-neutral format for detection rules. Together they let you express intelligence and detections once and use them across tools.
We collect a lot of data already. Where would you start?
With an inventory and value assessment: what you gather, what it costs, and what questions it can answer. From there we identify data to stop collecting, data worth normalizing, and valuable sources you may not have realized matter.
Get more from the data you already have.
Book a free consultation — no pitch decks, just a conversation about your goals.
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