Achieve Compliance Without SIEM Fees
Meet Regulatory Requirements While Controlling Your Costs
Unlock Compliance. Cut the Costs.
Snare empowers security teams to meet strict compliance obligations — without incurring SIEM storage or ingestion fees. Our lightweight, scalable logging solution ensures you maintain visibility, auditability, and control across your environment while dramatically lowering total cost of ownership.
Whether you’re governed by PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, or any other standard, Snare helps you collect, retain, and report on logs across hybrid and cloud environments — independently of your SIEM.
The Challenge: SIEM Costs Are Blocking Compliance
Most organizations are forced to choose between full visibility and affordable SIEM usage. The high cost of ingesting, storing, and retaining logs in SIEM platforms often leads to reduced data retention windows, limited visibility, or non-compliance.
Snare breaks this dependency.
The Snare Solution: Compliance Without the SIEM Overhead
Snare decouples compliance log collection and retention from costly SIEM platforms.
Capture Logs Across the Enterprise
Snare Agents are deployed across endpoints, servers, and cloud environments to collect all the logs required for compliance, including:
- Authentication and access logs
- Change management logs
- Privileged activity logs
- Security event logs
Route to Low-Cost, Searchable Storage
Snare Central and Snare Reflector store data securely in formats ready for audit, forensic investigation, and compliance reporting — without inflating SIEM costs.
Replay Data to Your SIEM On Demand
Need to investigate an incident later? Use Snare’s Replay function to push only relevant logs into your SIEM when necessary — not continuously.
Pre-Built Reports for Compliance Audits
Accelerate audit readiness with a library of compliance reports tailored to PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO, and more.
Key Business Benefits
Up to 90% reduction in SIEM storage and ingestion costs
Maintain compliance visibility across long retention periods
Audit-ready reports without manual effort
Secure, searchable, and structured logs without vendor lock-in
Flexible architecture for cloud, on-prem, hybrid, or air-gapped environments
How It Works: Snare in Your Compliance Architecture
- Snare Agents collect required log data at the source
- Snare Reflector filters, routes, and normalizes data
- Snare Central stores logs in searchable, structured formats
- Integrate with SIEM only when necessary, reducing cost and overhead
Why Snare for Compliance-Focused Organizations?
Trusted by Government and Regulated Industries globally for 20+ years
Supports long-term log retention aligned to compliance mandates
Unlimited support with zero surprise costs
Works with your existing tools: Splunk, Sentinel, QRadar, Securonix, and more
Industries That Benefit Most
Snare is ideal for compliance-driven organizations in:
Use Case Snapshot: PCI DSS Without SIEM Bloat
Challenge
A large national retailer operating across hundreds of locations was under pressure to maintain PCI DSS compliance. With thousands of endpoints and multiple retail systems generating logs, their SIEM was overwhelmed — both in capacity and cost.
The ingestion and storage costs of retaining logs for 12+ months were skyrocketing, and their security team had to constantly filter out data to stay within budget, compromising visibility and forensic readiness.
Solution
The retailer deployed Snare Agents across their POS systems, servers, and domain controllers to ensure comprehensive log coverage. Instead of streaming all log data into their SIEM, they used Snare Reflector to filter and route essential logs directly into Snare Central — a centralized, searchable, and cost-effective storage layer outside their SIEM.
To maintain compliance, the team used Snare’s built-in PCI DSS reporting templates and alerting capabilities. When a security incident occurred, Snare’s Replay feature allowed them to selectively forward logs from relevant endpoints into their SIEM for deeper analysis — only when necessary.
Outcomes:
- Reduced SIEM ingestion costs by over 80%, saving hundreds of thousands annually
- Maintained 12+ months of log retention for PCI DSS compliance, without risk of penalty
- Accelerated audit reporting and investigation workflows using Snare’s built-in compliance reports
- Improved security posture with consistent, forensic-level visibility across all retail systems
Impact:
Snare enabled the retailer to achieve full compliance and audit readiness while breaking free from unsustainable SIEM pricing. Their security team regained control, their auditors gained confidence, and their finance department gained breathing room.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I really be compliant without sending all logs to my SIEM?
Yes. Snare enables you to collect and retain all compliance-required logs outside of your SIEM, reducing costs without sacrificing visibility or auditability. You can store logs in Snare Central and only send specific logs to your SIEM when needed.
Which compliance standards does Snare support?
Snare supports log collection and reporting requirements for a wide range of compliance frameworks, including:
- PCI DSS
- HIPAA / HITECH
- GDPR
- ISO 27001
- NIST 800-53
- Essential Eight
- SOX
- APRA CPS 234
…and more. Customisable reports and filters make aligning with multiple standards easy.
How does Snare reduce SIEM costs?
Snare acts as a smart log collection and routing layer. It filters and forwards only relevant data to your SIEM, stores compliance logs separately, and enables long-term retention without costly ingestion or indexing. Customers typically see up to 90% savings on SIEM storage and processing.
Can I use Snare alongside my existing SIEM?
Absolutely. Snare is SIEM-agnostic and integrates with all leading platforms including Splunk, QRadar, Sentinel, Securonix, LogRhythm, and others. You choose what data goes to your SIEM, and what stays within the Snare platform for compliance or audit purposes.
How does Snare help during audits or investigations?
Snare’s pre-built compliance reports, granular filtering, and Replay functionality allow you to quickly locate, export, and forward relevant logs to your SIEM or auditors — without sending everything upfront. This ensures faster investigations and easier audit readiness.
Is the data stored by Snare secure and compliant?
Yes. Snare Central uses encrypted, tamper-evident storage designed for regulatory compliance. Access controls, audit trails, and integrity checks ensure your stored data meets the highest security standards.
Do I need to replace my SIEM to use Snare?
No. Snare works alongside your existing infrastructure to optimize, not replace, your SIEM. You gain cost-effective compliance and control over what data flows where — without losing the capabilities of your existing security stack.
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