Use Case

SIEM Alternative

Traditional SIEMs have become both essential and untenable. While they promise visibility, they often deliver high costs, excessive maintenance, and overwhelming noise that can offset any gains. CleanINTERNET® upsets the SIEM paradox—preventing threats before they need to be logged. Acting as a powerful upstream filter, CleanINTERNET drastically reduces event ingestion, eliminates false positives, and delivers contextual, audit-ready threat visibility through a dedicated portal. It means lean security teams can shift their attention from logging to intelligence—and from response to prevention. 

With CleanINTERNET, businesses move from a reactive stance to a proactive, preventive posture.

Challenge

A healthcare provider was struggling with its traditional SIEM deployment. While leaders faced ballooning costs for licensing, storage, and integration, security analysts were overwhelmed with unfiltered alerts, low-fidelity log data, and a complete lack of actionable insights. Compounding the issue, resource constraints meant the security team couldn’t maintain or tune the system effectively. The result was an expensive tool that delivered minimal operational value. 

Key Pain Points:

  • SIEM ingestion costs rising, with tens of millions of events per day
  • Reactive response to incidents—no real-time, preventive tools or posture
  • Security team flooded with alerts—no way to prioritize or reduce false positives
  • No way to operationalize threat intelligence through SIEM tools
  • Missed SLAs on incident triage and response
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Solution with CleanINTERNET®

The company deployed CleanINTERNET Enterprise and Fusion as a cost-effective SIEM alternative. By prioritizing threat prevention over log correlation, CleanINTERNET delivered almost immediate benefits:

  • Noise Reduction: CleanINTERNET blocked 99% of known threats before they reached the network, removing the need to detect and log those events later.
  • Dramatically Reduced SIEM Load: By filtering malicious traffic upstream, CleanINTERNET reduced event ingestion by up to 90%—allowing the company to scale back or even decommission its SIEM license.
  • Event Logging and Reporting Built-In: Centripetal provided full threat visibility, event summaries, PCAPs, and actionable dashboards without the need for an external SIEM.
  • Local Intelligence: Fusion integrated internal alerts, ISAC feeds, and telemetry with global threat intelligence—allowing context-rich detection of advanced threats that previously went undetected.
  • Real-Time Enforcement + Contextual Visibility: Instead of correlating logs after the fact, CleanINTERNET provided inline detection and block actions with contextual detail—including threat source, asset targeted, and IOCs involved.
  • Managed Service + Monthly Briefings: Centripetal’s dedicated Intelligence Operations Team delivered continuous event monitoring, tuning, threat triage, threat hunting, and regular updates—eliminating the need for manual tuning and upkeep.

CleanINTERNET delivers a proactive, intelligence-driven alternative to SIEM—one that prevents threats at the edge, reduces operational burden, and delivers full visibility without the drag of legacy infrastructure.

Results

  • SIEM costs reduced by over $100K annually
  • Security team worked with heightened situational awareness and fewer distractions
  • Threats were stopped—not just logged—before reaching endpoints
  • No loss in audit or compliance capability—CleanINTERNET retained six months of threat event history

Business Value

  • Blocked events upstream, eliminating the need to log them downstream
  • Achieved SIEM-like visibility without the cost, complexity, or alert fatigue
  • Empowered resource-constrained teams with actionable intelligence, not raw data
  • Preserved compliance posture with logs, PCAPs, and reporting
  • Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) for security operations tools

The Centripetal Difference

Global Threat Intelligence at Scale

Billions of threat indicators, applied to every packet in real time.

AI + Human Expertise

Automated at machine speed. Tuned by elite analysts who provide the human edge.

Zero Disruption

Filters and analyzes network traffic without excessive latency, jitter, or packet loss.

Real Results, Real Fast

Customers report immediate reductions in event noise, security complexity, and cost.

Security That Actually Prevents

See how CleanINTERNET®—the 24/7 proactive threat prevention solution—can protect your business, your customers, and your reputation.

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