Breaking the Mold: What We Learned (and Proved) at RSA 2025

The real takeaway? Change is in the air. Security leaders are done talking — they’re actively looking to break old patterns in favor of smarter, faster, more efficient operations.

At Anomali, we’ve been challenging the status quo from day one — not by chasing parity with legacy tools, but by asking whether those tools ever made sense to begin with. Why cling to patchwork detection content and bloated use case libraries when you can simplify and modernize with intelligence built right in?

Here’s how Anomali is helping teams cut through the noise, leave legacy behind, and take security operations into the future.  

Moving Beyond the Conventional SIEM  

Both legacy and next-generation security information and event management (SIEM) solutions struggle to balance performance, cost, and scale. Anomali addresses these limitations by combining your internal telemetry data with curated native threat intelligence in a purpose-built, AI-ready data lake.  

The result? Faster time to insight, simplified threat investigation, and reduced complexity.

What’s in the Secret Sauce?  

Anomali was designed from the ground up to support the rapidly evolving threat landscape by integrating the key capabilities a modern SOC can’t live without. Here’s what sets it apart:

Cloud-Native Data Lake, Purpose-Built for Security

At the center of the platform is the Anomali data lake — designed to handle massive volumes of telemetry and threat intelligence without relying on third-party infrastructure. This foundation enables fast, scalable analytics and long-term data retention at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions.

Integrated Threat Intelligence  

Native threat intelligence isn't an Anomali feature — it’s foundational. The platform distributes curated intel directly into every threat triage, analysis, and response workflow. This eliminates the lag and context loss that often comes with bolt-on feeds or external platforms, enabling security teams to make faster, more informed decisions with less manual effort.

Anomali AI: Designed for Action. Built for AI.

Anomali combines advanced technologies — including agentic AI, generative AI (GenAI), NLP, RAG, and automated threat scoring — to improve threat discovery, analysis, and faster response across the platform. This integration empowers security teams to drive faster, more focused responses across the cybersecurity lifecycle.

• Agentic AI empowers the system to autonomously execute complex, multi-step tasks, such as identifying threats, diagnosing root causes, and initiating remediation actions, reducing the need for constant human oversight. ‍
• GenAI assists in creating human-readable reports, summarizing threat landscapes, and providing contextual insights, facilitating better understanding and communication among stakeholders. ‍
• Natural language processing (NLP) allows users to interact with the system using everyday language, simplifying query formulation and enabling faster, more intuitive data analysis. ‍
• Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG) enhances the AI's ability to provide accurate and contextually relevant responses by combining the strengths of retrieval-based and generative models. ‍
• Automated threat scoring prioritizes threats based on severity and relevance, enabling security teams to focus on the most critical issues first.

By embedding these AI capabilities throughout its platform, Anomali AI delivers a unified and intelligent solution that adapts to the evolving cybersecurity landscape, providing organizations with the tools needed to stay ahead of emerging threats.

Faster, Easier Migration with AI-Powered Lift-and-Shift

Anomali accelerates time-to-value with migration tools that do the heavy lifting. It uses AI to automatically port over up to 90% of existing dashboards, use cases, and queries — including direct translation from SPL (Splunk) and KQL (Microsoft) to Anomali Query Language (AQL). Most organizations complete their migration in under 90 days, compared to the typical nine-to-12 month timeline required by other platforms.

Real-World Impact: Speed, Visibility, and Savings

A Fortune 500 financial institution replaced multiple SIEM platforms with Anomali and saw measurable improvements within the first year, including:

• 90% reduction in critical incidents

• 20x increase in data visibility and retention

• ~65% annual cost savings on SIEM spend

By consolidating its security stack into the Anomali platform, the enterprise shifted team focus from reactive alert management to proactive threat hunting and strategic initiatives.

Other key outcomes included:

• Accelerated detection and response: Queries that previously took hours or days now complete in under a minute using AQL. ‍
• Scalable retention without runaway costs: The organization now retains more than seven years of searchable security data with no incremental storage fees. ‍
• Rapid migration: Using Anomali’s AI-powered migration assistance, the institution transitioned from legacy platforms to Anomali in just 12 weeks.

A Broader Transformation Across Sectors

In the public sector, a state organization achieved a 60% reduction in SIEM-related spend while expanding visibility across both security and IT domains. After just nine months, the agency had moved beyond traditional security operations, leveraging Anomali as an enterprise-wide analytics platform.

How Anomali Enables Superior Real-World Outcomes

Anomali customers are achieving enterprise-wide agility, precision, and savings that legacy platforms can’t match. Whether replacing their SIEMs entirely or starting by adding Anomali to their existing stacks, customers across industries are transforming operations with faster detection, deeper visibility, and stronger outcomes.

With a unified architecture, native threat intelligence, and advanced AI, Anomali is helping teams modernize security without compromise, unlocking real results in record time.

If you’re evaluating SIEM replacements, or an optimization of your current SIEM, request a demo. Let us show you how we get it done in 90 days.