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.
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Most organizations are forced to choose between full visibility and affordable SIEM usage — reduced retention windows, visibility gaps, or non-compliance. Snare breaks this dependency.
Snare decouples compliance log collection and retention from costly SIEM platforms.
Snare Agents are deployed across endpoints, servers, and cloud environments to collect all the logs required for compliance, including:
Snare Central and Snare Reflector store data securely in formats ready for audit, forensic investigation, and compliance reporting — without inflating SIEM costs.
Need to investigate an incident later? Use Snare’s Replay function to push only relevant logs into your SIEM when necessary — not continuously.
Accelerate audit readiness with a library of compliance reports tailored to PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO, and more.
Instead of digging through dashboards or waiting on a specialist to pull a report, compliance and audit teams can now ask AskSnare directly — “Show me every privileged access event in the last 90 days” or “Which systems haven’t logged authentication events this week?” — and get an explainable, auditable answer in seconds, drawn from Snare’s forensic-grade data.
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How It Works
Why Snare
Snare is ideal for compliance-driven organizations in:
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
Will auditors accept AI-generated answers from AskSnare as evidence?
AskSnare is designed to support — not replace — your audit workflow. Every answer includes transparent, step-by-step reasoning drawn directly from Snare’s tamper-evident log data, so your compliance team can verify the underlying evidence rather than relying on the AI’s conclusion alone. Most organisations use AskSnare to accelerate audit prep and gap analysis, then present the underlying logs and reports to auditors in the same format they use today.
Does using AskSnare mean our log data leaves our environment?
No. AskSnare is federated — it queries your Snare data in place and does not replicate or centralise it elsewhere. This matters for organisations with strict data residency or sovereignty requirements tied to their compliance obligations.
