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Why Are Traditional SIEMs Struggling to Keep Up in the Modern Cloud Era? More than a decade ago, the authors began their careers in security, facing daunting challenges: enterprises were investing in technologies, people, and processes, yet breaches persisted. For two of the authors, that journey included time at Splunk, where they witnessed firsthand how security teams leaned heavily on SIEM platforms to defend against evolving threats. Across their combined experience, one theme was clear that attackers were moving faster, and defenders were struggling to keep up with the scale and speed of the fight. Today, organizations generate more data than ever, and the strain is felt most acutely in security operations. Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms, once the backbone of enterprise defense, are showing their age. Originally built for log management, many legacy SIEMs are ill-equipped to handle the scale, complexity, and velocity of modern cloud enviro...