From Less SIEM to SIEM-Less: Breaking the Centralization Bottleneck

For years, security teams built their architecture around the SIEM. That worked when data lived in fewer places and attacks moved more slowly. Today, data is distributed across cloud, SaaS, identities, endpoints, and AI services—while attackers move in minutes. Forcing every event through a centralized SIEM creates unnecessary cost, operational friction, and delay.

The most advanced security teams are rethinking where detection happens, where data needs to live, and whether they need a traditional SIEM at all?

The path forward is not a single leap. It is a progression. ReliaQuest's Paul Rispoli and Auto Club Group’s CISO, Gopal Padinjaruveetil, will walk through three architectural stages—SIEM-centric, Less SIEM, and SIEM-Less—covering what each looks like in practice, where each one breaks down, and what triggers the move to the next.

What You'll Learn:

What SIEM-centric, Less SIEM, and SIEM-Less architectures look like in practice— and the tradeoffs in speed, cost, and visibility at each stage

How to reduce SIEM dependency incrementally—detecting at source, filtering in transit, and routing data to cost-efficient storage—without losing investigation or hunting capability

How to evaluate where your organization sits today and what it takes to move to the next stage