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KPMG Technology consulting deploys Elastic Security to cut storage costs, increase visibility, and reduce false positives
Originally from elastic.co/blog/feed
November 7, 2025 ‱ Roasted by Marcus "Zero Trust" Williams Read Original Article

Oh, this is just fantastic. I had to pour myself a lukewarm coffee and read this twice just to appreciate the sheer, unadulterated optimism. It's truly a masterclass in marketing-driven security architecture.

I'm particularly impressed by the 75% cost savings. I love it when the first metric in a security migration is the budget cut. It tells me you've correctly prioritized the P&L statement over pesky things like, you know, security. The board will applaud that number right up until they're reading about the incident response retainer that costs 750% more than the old SIEM. But hey, that's a problem for next quarter's Marcus.

And a 10x storage increase! Simply breathtaking. It’s a bold strategy to build a bigger, more attractive data honeypot for attackers. I can’t wait to audit that. I'm already picturing the checklist:

My absolute favorite part, though, is the AI-powered analytics. Ah, the magic pixie dust of our time. You’re not just logging events; you're letting a mystical black box that no one on your team truly understands tell you when you're being breached. What could possibly go wrong? I’m sure it’s completely immune to adversarial ML attacks or simple model poisoning. When the SOC 2 auditor asks you to "walk me through this detective control," I hope your answer is more than just shrugging and pointing at a logo. The alert fatigue from your "intelligent" system will be so legendary, your SOC analysts will probably sleep right through the actual exfiltration event.

And the promise of enhanced threat detection with real-time monitoring is the cherry on top. "Enhanced" compared to what? A disconnected smoke detector? It's so refreshing to see a solution that will allow you to watch your entire customer database being streamed to a foreign IP address in glorious, high-fidelity real-time. That’s not a security failure; that’s a premium observability feature! Every CVE is just a new opportunity for the AI to learn.

You haven’t just migrated a SIEM. You’ve meticulously engineered a compliance nightmare with a fantastic user interface.

Congratulations on building a faster, cheaper, AI-powered highway for exfiltrating your own data. Your CISO will be thrilled to get the breach notification 10x faster.