CardinalOps and Cribl: Detection visibility and coverage at scale

The challenge

Legacy SIEM platforms helped handle detection and response in an outdated era, with models that encourage socs to collect as many logs as possible, then normalize and store data with monolithic data infrastructure for detection coverage.

Today your environment is multi-cloud, SaaS-heavy, containerized, APl-driven, and identity-centric, which creates far more data and far more complexity. As volumes explode, legacy SIEM licensing forces a choice: either you keep paying more to store everything, or ingest less and live with blind spots. Teams that move to modern data pipelines and data lakes get better scale, flexibility, and cost control - and they need a smarter way to turn all that security telemetry into high-quality detections that expand coverage and make the SOC more effective.

The solution: Better together

CardinalOps is not a SIEM. It sits on top of your existing SIEM, EDR, and XDR tools as an Al-powered detection engineering layer that continuously measures and improves coverage. Cribl Edge and Cribl Stream collect, shape, and route the right security telemetry into those tools. Cribl Search and Cribl Lake give you access to cheaper, long-term telemetry for testing and investigations. Together, Cribl and CardinalOps turn your modern security data architecture into targeted, contextualized detections instead of more noise.

Al-powered tuning workflows autonomously find and fix broken, noisy SIEM detection rules as telemetry sources evolve and configurations drift. Together, Cribl and CardinalOps cut wasteful SIEM data costs, eliminate blind spots, and unmask stealthy adversaries, so you never miss another threat.

The benefits of using Cribl and CardinalOps

OPERATIONALIZE SECURITY DATA FOR DETECTIONS

Cribl gives you full visibility of your security data, no matter its source, location, or format, amplifying the security signals needed for CardinalOps automated detection engineering workflows to expand detection coverage.

SAY GOODBYE TO COVERAGE GAPS

Cribl's flexible, scalable infrastructure helps teams put contextual data into action, enabling CardinalOps to eliminate coverage gaps with new SIEM and EDR detection rules. CardinalOps automated detection engineering workflows find and fix broken, noisy rules that result from drifting configurations and log schemas.

BOOST EFFECTIVENESS AND REDUCE COSTS

CardinalOps delivers intelligence and context to feed back into CribI Stream, Search, and Lake. You can tune pipelines to send exactly the events your SIEM needs, keeping high-value data in hot storage ready for real-time detection. Identifying missing events, fields, and parsing errors helps refine Cribl's collection and normalization logic, increasing detection effectiveness. Pinpointing unnecessary, redundant security logs informs filtering logic to drastically cut SIEM data costs.

Summary

Cribl and CardinalOps helps your SOC turn modern security data architecture into stronger, more effective detections. Cribl's data infrastructure gives you full visibility across diverse security log sources, while CardinalOps continuously expands threat coverage and keepsSIEM rules effective as environments change. Together, Cribl and CardinalOps turn your security data into action, maximizing detection coverage, eliminating blind spots, and cutting wasted spend from outdated SIEM licensing models.