One of the biggest challenges for organisations adopting Microsoft Sentinel has long been managing ingestion costs. With the explosion of security telemetry, from firewalls, endpoints, clouds, and third-party tools, many organisations worry that crucial visibility comes with runaway costs. At Quorum Cyber, we believe peace of mind shouldn’t come at a premium. That’s why we’ve made it our mission to help customers maximise their Sentinel value and spend smarter.

Microsoft’s Game-Changer: The Unified Data Lake

Microsoft’s announcement of the preview of the new unified data lake is transformative for customers and managed security partners like Quorum Cyber. By decoupling compute and storage, Microsoft Sentinel now lets you retain massive amounts of high-volume logs for up to 12 years, without being shackled to high ingestion fees or forced into painful migration decisions.

This allows for the centralisation, retention, and querying of security data from both Microsoft and third-party sources within a single, consolidated source, reducing data silos. The result? You get both long-term compliance and real-time operational prowess, with budget and performance optimised side by side.

How Quorum Cyber Tackles Ingestion Costs

We understand the anxiety that can come with Sentinel’s billing model. That’s why our approach centres on a few key strategies:

• Smart Ingestion Filtering: We configure your Sentinel environment to collect and retain only the logs that matter most, eliminating expensive or redundant noise.
• Cost-Efficient Retention: By leveraging Microsoft’s decoupled storage, we ensure you keep necessary data for compliance and threat hunting at a fraction of traditional costs.
• Advanced Analytics Without Waste: You’ll still correlate, investigate, and analyse signals, from persistent, low-and-slow attacks to day-to-day anomalies, without ever feeling constrained by your budget.
• Ongoing Optimisation: Our Clarity managed detection and response (MDR) service includes regular health checks and environment tuning to keep costs predictable and your detection coverage comprehensive.

The Value Our Customers Experience

With this partnership, customers enjoy greater visibility, smarter automation, with tools like Microsoft Security Copilot, KQL, and machine learning, and confidence that you’re always prepared for forensic investigations, without performance or budget trade-offs.

“Our focus is on helping customers to optimise their data management, control and reduce ingestion costs, and empower their security operations to deliver maximum visibility and protection – from proactive threat detection to rapid incident response – all while keeping their total cost of ownership manageable and predictable.” Leon Butler, Head of Data Security

Time to Take Advantage

If you’ve hesitated around Sentinel costs or need clarity on how to maximise your security ROI, now is the perfect moment. Microsoft’s new capabilities, combined with our expertise, means you can confidently ingest, retain, and investigate high-volume log data, all without budget concerns.

Ready to optimise your Sentinel experience and eliminate ingestion-related worries? Contact us to explore how we can help you attain practical, predictable, and powerful security outcomes.