April 2, 2025
Protecting against a breach starts with visibility into what's going on in your environment. That's why compliance regulations and cyber insurance require the use of technology that can properly monitor all applications, servers, endpoints, users, and more. By analyzing the large amounts of data produced, a trained security engineer (or automated system) can identify anomalies that could indicate attackers are inside your network or planning an attack soon.
But the primary technology – a SIEM – used to achieve security and compliance objectives has historically been too complex, costly, and burdensome for small IT teams to manage. For example, CIO Craig Rhinehart spent a year researching SIEMs to help meet FTC guidelines at his accounting firm, Robinson, Rhinehart, Grimes & Company.
“I learned a lot over the course of a year about what it takes to operate a SIEM. I reached the conclusion that a SIEM wasn’t in the cards for us, as we were too small and any product would be placing too large a burden on us, as we didn’t have a dedicated security team. We couldn’t implement a system that required the amount of tuning, maintaining and responding to all of the information that a SIEM would provide us,” Rhinehart said.
Once Rhinehart got Blumira up and running, he was able to understand the full benefits and value of having the solution in place for their firm.
“I had not wrapped my head around the actual benefits of a SIEM – it was almost more of a compliance checkbox. When we got it up and running, it hit me that Blumira is providing us the visibility that we didn’t have before. There are devices and systems that we can’t install our AV on, and Blumira can give us advance or early warning of something funny going on that we didn’t have before we implemented it,” Rhinehart said.
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SIEM Starter: An Accessible SIEM For Small Teams
At Blumira, our objective is to help small and medium-sized businesses with limited IT teams get access to a SIEM that not only protects them against a breach while meeting compliance requirements but makes their lives easier.
That’s why we’re offering SIEM Starter, a SIEM that helps you easily meet compliance and your budget, with one year of data retention and monitoring for your entire environment – including endpoint detections.
SIEM Starter now:
- Meets compliance needs with 1 year of retention (previously 90 days)
- Monitors security of your entire environment with access to over 130+ integrations, including endpoint detections (previously only cloud integrations, no sensor)
- Fits SMB budgets with greater value for your spend (previously $15/employee, now $12/employee – 20% discount)
Benefits include:
- Easy to set up - Deploy in hours, with your existing team & resources
- Fast detection - Get notified of threats in under a minute of initial detection
- Easy to use - Designed for 1-3 people teams to easily manage security in 15 minutes a day
To ease the burden on teams with limited time and resources, Blumira provides support with:
- Onboarding by our dedicated Solution Architects and Customer Success Managers
- Troubleshooting any issues that may arise with our Security Operations and Technical Support Analysts
- Threat hunting, detection rule development and tuning by the Incident Detection team at Blumira to help identify indicators of a compromise early and often, while reducing noisy alerts
If you're looking for even more security and support, upgrading to SIEM+ or XDR gives you access to customized security detections and emergency 24/7 support for critical security issues from our Security Operations Analysts (SecOps).
While searching for a SIEM to meet compliance needs, some tools just "check the box,” but aren't able to provide any real security value to organizations. Due to the support and security heavy lifting Blumira provides to SIEM Starter customers, they're able to achieve a higher level of security at a much lower cost.
