$3.5M

Annually

In SIEM overspend.

$900K

Annually

In redundant licensing fees from tool fragmentation.

$1M

Annually

Paying premium talent to do low-value work.

+More

Paying in single vendor consolidation long-term.

1. Relying on SIEM for detection costs you $3.5M annually in unnecessary storage fees—and raises your risk.

Here’s why:

Storing all your data in a SIEM for detection requires you to expand your license to make sure you have the visibility you need. This increases both cost and detection time as your SIEM ingests and parses unnecessary data.

Here’s how to prevent:

Detect threats at the source, or before data is stored to gain real-time visibility and reduce storage costs. Filter and route non-security-relevant data to more cost-effective storage solutions like data lakes and cloud buckets

2. Tool fragmentation costs you $900,000 annually in redundant licensing and wastes correlation time.

Here’s why:

Disconnected single function tools can perform more efficiently if they are able to communicate under a unified platform. When you integrate new tools or business acquisitions within a fragmented environment, licensing costs and visibility

Here’s how to prevent:

Perform an audit across your business to uncover redundant licensing and redundant tools. Then connect your most valuable tools under a unified solution to reduce tool hopping.

3. Paying premium talent to do low-value work costs you $1M annually.

Here’s why:

Your team spends hours daily on routine alert triage. This time could be redirected toward proactive threat hunting, threat intelligence, and detection engineering.

Here’s how to prevent:

Use AI and automation to handle basic tasks, such as data gathering and analysis, deduplication and enrichment of alerts, and summary writeups. Your analysts and engineers are freed to proactively hunt threats and engineer detections to prevent future incidents.

4. Paying for single vendor consolidation costs you more long-term.

Here’s why:

Consolidation sounds like the best way to reduce tool complexity, but short-term simplicity locks you into subpar tools and a fluctuating pricing model. You give up control over your architecture and your budget on tools that aren’t even optimal for your business.

Here’s how to prevent:

Choose the most optimal tools and implement a solution that facilitates communication between them. That way you can keep your best-of-breed tools and get the benefits of a unified vendor.

Forrester: The Total Economic Impact™

Cost savings and business benefits enabled by ReliaQuest GreyMatter.

Data is based on a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of ReliaQuest, June 2025.