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In today’s threat landscape, building resilience is no longer about simply defending the perimeter, it’s about visibility, speed, and confidence in your data. For security leaders, a resilient logging strategy is at the heart of that capability.
A strong logging framework not only supports faster detection and response but also enables compliance, forensics, and cost efficiency across complex hybrid environments.
The foundation of this approach aligns perfectly with the Cyber 4Cs: Coverage, Control, Cost, and Compliance.
Each of these pillars represents a critical dimension of modern cyber resilience, and with Snare’s latest suite of solutions, they’re easier to achieve than ever before.
1. Coverage: See Everything, Miss Nothing
Visibility is the first line of defence. You can’t protect what you can’t see.
Comprehensive coverage means collecting event data from every endpoint, server, application, and device, across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Yet many organisations still struggle with gaps due to limited agent reach or storage constraints.
Snare’s new releases close those gaps.
- Snare Agent v5.10 expands OS support and event source coverage, ensuring logs are captured across modern, legacy, and mixed environments.
- Snare Reflector routes and replicates logs to multiple destinations in real time, ensuring nothing is lost, even if one system is down.
- Snare Central v8.7 delivers advanced data compression and high-throughput ingestion, so organisations can collect and retain more without compromising performance.
Together, these capabilities ensure full visibility from every corner of your environment — a true single source of log truth.
Result: Complete visibility, faster detection, and stronger threat coverage across the enterprise.
2. Control: Simplify, Centralise, and Strengthen
Security teams are under constant pressure to manage increasingly complex infrastructures, often juggling multiple SIEMs, data lakes, and log retention policies. Without centralised control, logging quickly becomes fragmented and reactive.
Snare Central v8.7 addresses this challenge with new features that put control back in the hands of security leaders:
- Enhanced log management dashboards provide real-time visibility into data flows, agent status, and storage utilisation.
- Snare Agent Manager v2.2.0 simplifies mass agent configuration and deployment, reducing manual effort and ensuring consistent logging policies across the enterprise.
- Built-in automation and alerting make it easier to detect collection gaps or failures before they become compliance or visibility risks.
By centralising and automating log management, Snare enables organisations to strengthen operational control without increasing headcount or complexity.
Result: Greater operational efficiency and simplified oversight across all logging activities.
3. Cost: Do More with Less Data Overhead
The rising cost of data ingestion has become one of the biggest pain points for security operations. Storing everything in your SIEM or cloud platform is unsustainable, but storing too little creates blind spots.
Snare’s approach strikes the perfect balance between visibility and efficiency:
- Snare Central v8.7 introduces improved data compression algorithms, reducing storage requirements without losing fidelity.
- Snare Reflector allows organisations to forward only what’s necessary to expensive downstream tools while retaining full logs cost-effectively within Snare.
- Tiered storage options enable long-term retention at a fraction of traditional costs.
This architecture allows security teams to achieve full compliance and audit readiness while dramatically reducing SIEM ingestion costs , often by up to 90%.
Result: Full visibility and compliance at a predictable, sustainable cost.
4. Compliance: Be Audit-Ready, Always
Every regulation — from ISO/IEC 27001 to NIST CSF to the Australian Essential 8, demands comprehensive visibility and retention of event logs. But compliance isn’t just about collecting data; it’s about being able to prove it.
Snare simplifies compliance through automation, traceability, and reporting:
- Snare Central’s audit-ready dashboards make it easy to demonstrate log collection, retention, and integrity.
- Built-in templates align with common frameworks like NIST, ISO, and Essential 8, accelerating audit preparation.
- Logs are cryptographically signed and timestamped, preserving authenticity and chain of custody.
Combined, these features ensure that compliance reporting becomes a by-product of daily operations , not a quarterly scramble.
Result: Continuous compliance confidence with minimal administrative overhead.
Bringing the 4Cs Together: A Blueprint for Resilient Logging
When viewed together, the Cyber 4Cs — Coverage, Control, Cost, and Compliance, form the foundation of a modern, resilient logging strategy.
| Pillar | Outcome | Snare Capability |
| Coverage | Complete visibility | Snare Agent v5.10 + Snare Reflector |
| Control | Simplified oversight | Snare Central v8.7 + Snare Agent Manager v2.2.0 |
| Cost | Reduced SIEM ingestion & storage costs | Snare Reflector + Snare Central compression |
| Compliance | Audit-ready confidence | Snare Central dashboards + signed log integrity |
Together, these innovations transform logging from a compliance necessity into a strategic enabler of resilience.
Because cyber resilience isn’t just about defending against attacks , it’s about ensuring your organisation can respond, recover, and continue to operate with confidence.
And that all starts with trusted, efficient, and centralised event logging.
Final Thought
The Cyber 4Cs aren’t theoretical, they’re practical principles that give security leaders a framework to manage complexity, reduce costs, and strengthen cyber resilience.
Snare’s suite of solutions brings these principles to life, empowering security teams to see more, do more, and spend less, without compromise.
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