The most common objection we hear from security leaders isn't about AI skepticism or budget constraints. It's simpler than that:
"We just signed a three-year contract for our SIEM."
Whatever platform consumed eighteen months of procurement cycles, integration work, and analyst training. The sunk cost isn't just financial—it's organizational. Ripping out a SIEM means re-fighting every battle that got it deployed in the first place.
Here's the thing: you don't have to.
The assumption that modernization requires migration is a legacy vendor talking point. It protects their install base by making the switching cost feel insurmountable. But agentic capabilities don't require replacing your data infrastructure. They only require accessing it.
Traditional security platforms are monolithic by design. Data ingestion, storage, query, detection, and response all live in one system. Want to add a capability? It has to come from that vendor's roadmap. Want to use a different tool for one function? You're now maintaining two systems with data sync and data language problems.
This architecture made sense when the platform was the capability. Your SIEM was valuable because it could store and search logs at scale. That was the hard problem. No longer.
Storage is cheap. Query engines are a commodity. The hard problem now is making that data useful—correlating across sources, investigating autonomously, responding at machine speed. The hard problem is agentic capability, not log infrastructure.
Yet most organizations are stuck maintaining expensive infrastructure because their AI roadmap is locked to their SIEM vendor's timeline. Meanwhile, your security program waits.
Strike48's architecture separates agentic capability from data residency.
You can bring logs into Strike48's platform—and our parse-at-query architecture makes that economical even at massive scale. But you can also leave logs exactly where they are and query them in place.
This isn't a "connector" that syncs data on a schedule. It's live query federation. When an agent investigates an alert, it queries your existing systems in real-time, correlates results across sources, and produces findings—without moving a byte of data.
The practical implication: you can deploy agentic investigation capabilities this quarter without touching your SIEM contract, your data pipelines, or your retention policies.
Migration anxiety assumes a binary choice: keep your current stack or replace it entirely. Strike48 enables a third option—incremental modernization.
Phase 1: Overlay Deploy Strike48 agents against your existing infrastructure. No data migration. Agents query your current SIEM, your current data lake, your current tools. You get agentic investigation capabilities immediately while your existing investments continue operating unchanged.
Phase 2: Selective Ingestion Identify log sources where Strike48's parse-at-query economics outperform your current platform. High-volume, low-query sources are obvious candidates—cloud infrastructure logs, network flow data, authentication events. Migrate these sources while keeping high-value data in your existing SIEM.
Phase 3: Consolidation (Optional) As contracts expire and your team builds confidence, consolidate additional sources into Strike48. Or don't. The architecture doesn't require it. Some organizations run hybrid indefinitely because it fits their operational model.
The point is optionality. You're not locked into a migration timeline dictated by contract terms or vendor roadmaps. You modernize at your pace, based on your priorities.
The path to flexibility isn't staying locked into your current platform. It's deploying a layer that abstracts away platform-specific constraints.
See query-in-place in action. Request a demo to watch Strike48 agents investigate alerts across your infrastructure—no migration required.