One pipeline for financial services

Financial-services security teams are asked to do three things at once: keep more logs for longer, spend less on the SIEM that ingests them, and prove on demand that the record is complete. Most teams try to solve all three inside the SIEM. This whitepaper shows why the collection layer, not the analytics layer, is where cost, compliance, and coverage get fixed, and how a telemetry pipeline in front of your SIEM does it without sampling, dropping sources, or re-instrumenting every time you change tools.

What you'll learn

• Why a SIEM and a telemetry pipeline are different layers with different jobs, and what goes wrong when one product has to do both

• Where the SIEM bill comes from: verbose sources, duplicated events, hot-tier retention, and the uncontrolled growth that follows every acquisition, regulation, and incident

• How to route by value, so the detection-relevant slice pays SIEM rates while the full-fidelity record goes to low-cost storage you control

• Why per-source pricing breaks the link between log volume and cost, and what that means for budget predictability

• How to treat compliance as an architectural property across DORA, NIS2, PCI DSS, SOX, GLBA, NYDFS, FFIEC, and SEC requirements, instead of a per-tool scramble before each audit

• Which recurring audit controls are cleanest to satisfy at the pipeline layer: file integrity monitoring, PII and cardholder-data redaction at the source, and role-based access to telemetry

• How to collect from the systems native SIEM agents miss: mainframes, IBM AIX, closed core-banking platforms, end-of-life and 32-bit Windows, and air-gapped or OT segments

• A worked configuration example that keeps a complete archive while filtering high-volume, low-value Windows events out of only the copy bound for the SIEM

• How banks and financial institutions, including La Banque Postale, QNB Finansbank, and one of the largest banks in the United States, run NXLog across mixed-vendor estates

Download the whitepaper for the full analysis, the three-question telemetry assessment, and the configuration pattern you can apply to your own estate.