🚨 SIEM Alternative

A SIEM Alternative for Cloud and Identity Teams

ZonForge Sentinel is an AI-native security operations platform for cloud and identity security, currently in pre-GA development. Teams evaluating alternatives to Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel and other SIEMs can see exactly what is live, in sandbox and in development on our Capability Status page.

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SIEM Cost Growth

Many SIEMs price by the volume of data ingested, so costs can rise quickly as cloud and SaaS log volume grows.

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Long Deployments

SIEM rollouts often take months of engineering work, plus ongoing rule tuning to keep false positives manageable.

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Alert Fatigue

High alert volumes mean analysts can manually investigate only a fraction of alerts, so real threats can be missed in the noise.

How ZonForge Sentinel Approaches the Problem

ZonForge Sentinel is designed around cloud and identity telemetry. Each capability below shows its current status from our capability registry.

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Cloud Connectors — In Development

Collectors for AWS, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace perform real OAuth/SDK authentication and data pulls, but are not yet enabled in the production ingestion pipeline. GitHub and Cloudflare sources are planned.

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AI SOC Analyst — Sandbox

Autonomous investigation is implemented with a real LLM agent, running in a service that is not yet in the production deployment. In-product views show clearly labelled sandbox activity.

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Not Priced per GB

Pre-GA reference pricing uses units such as identities, cloud accounts and team size — not gigabytes of ingested logs. Reference estimates on the pricing page are not a production checkout.

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Identity-Focused Detection — Sandbox

Detection rules such as impossible travel and privilege escalation run in a pipeline service that is not yet deployed. Figures shown in-product are synthetic.

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Compliance Mapping — Sandbox

Compliance scoring is a posture-derived model and ISO/SOC 2 mapping is heuristic — it is not a certified audit. Some report attestations are not yet live-verified.

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Alert Triage — In Development

Triage currently uses deterministic risk scoring (asset criticality, IOC, behavior), not model-based classification.

What to Compare When Evaluating SIEM Alternatives

What to evaluateWhy it mattersZonForge Sentinel today
Pricing modelVolume-based pricing can grow with log volumeReference pricing by identities, cloud accounts and team size; not per GB (pre-GA estimates)
Cloud and SaaS data sourcesCoverage depends on which sources run in productionAWS, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace collectors in development; GitHub and Cloudflare planned
Alert investigationDetermines how much manual analyst work remainsAI SOC analyst in sandbox; triage uses deterministic risk scoring
Detection contentIdentity attacks often start with credential misuseRules such as impossible travel and privilege escalation in sandbox
Compliance reportingAffects audit preparation effortHeuristic ISO/SOC 2 mapping in sandbox; not a certified audit
Production availabilityWhether the platform can carry production workloads todayPre-GA; design-partner pilots by agreement

Common Questions About Replacing Your SIEM

ZonForge Sentinel is pre-GA, so it is not yet a production replacement for an existing SIEM. Its cloud collectors and event pipeline are in development and its detection engine runs in a sandbox. Teams typically keep their current SIEM and evaluate ZonForge in a design-partner pilot.
Migration is not yet offered as a production service. Design-partner pilots run alongside your existing tooling within an agreed evaluation scope.
ZonForge's compliance dashboard is in sandbox. Compliance scoring is a posture-derived model and ISO/SOC 2 mapping is heuristic — it is not a certified audit, and some report attestations are not yet live-verified.
Long-term raw log retention is not a current ZonForge Sentinel capability. Organizations with retention requirements should keep a dedicated logging or archive solution.

Evaluating a SIEM Alternative?

Book a 30-minute demo. We'll walk through the sandbox and current capability status, and discuss whether a design-partner pilot fits your team.