SIEM buyer's guide for the modern SOC

Our 2025 SIEM buyer's guide explores the role SIEM plays in today's modern SOC. The guide highlights key feature differences and flags important questions to ask vendors — helping you arrive at a solution that will empower your security program for years to come.

There are several key considerations when selecting your SIEM. In this buyer's guide, you'll gain insight into questions such as:

• Is cloud transformation causing new blind spots?
• What's a reasonable time frame for building custom data integrations?
• How can you reduce vendor lock-in?

Additional resources

• Elastic Security for SIEM and security analytics
• Introduction to Elastic Security: Modernizing security operations
• Optimizing SIEM performance