Executive Business Case & Fixed-Milestone SOW Specification
Telemetry Modernization to CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM • 100% In-Tenant Architecture • 30-Day Bound Parallel Run SLA.
Executive Summary & Financial Impact
Migrating enterprise telemetry from Splunk to CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM delivers an immediate ~80% storage footprint reduction through LogScale columnar compression and index-free architecture. By eliminating legacy forward-indexing storage bloat and ingestion penalties, this initiative slashes ongoing TCO while unlocking sub-second search speeds across petabyte-scale security telemetry.
| Cost Element / Architectural Metric | Legacy SIEM (Splunk) | Falcon Next-Gen SIEM | Net Differential |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily Raw Ingestion Rate | 500 GB / day | 500 GB / day | Parity (1:1) |
| Retained Storage Footprint (Index Bloat vs. Columnar) | 228.1 TB (~1.25x) | 36.5 TB (~0.20x) | -191.6 TB (-84%) |
| Storage & Cloud Bucket Infrastructure (Annual) | $68,430 / yr | $10,950 / yr | -$57,480 / yr |
| Ingestion Licensing & Search Compute Surcharges (Annual) | $186,000 / yr | $103,480 / yr | -$82,520 / yr |
| Estimated Annual Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) | $254,430 / yr | $114,430 / yr | -$140,000 / yr (-55%) |
Cost of Migration Delay (Dual-Licensing Bleed Analysis)
Every month an enterprise delays modernizing its legacy SIEM, capital is bled through ongoing uncompressed storage fees, forward-indexing charges, and overlapping vendor contracts. Waiting on vendor Professional Services backlogs or open-ended Time & Materials (T&M) VARs routinely traps security teams in 6 to 9 months of costly dual-licensing bleed.
What 30 Days of Delay Costs enterprise.com
Equivalent to ~1/12th of annual legacy SIEM licensing, uncompressed storage bloat, and operational maintenance.
- • 8–12 Week Vendor Backlog: Stuck waiting in generalist vendor staffing queues before kickoff.
- • 6+ Month Open-Ended T&M Scope: Billable hours expand while dual-licensing bleed compounds.
- • Cumulative Overrun Bleed: $127,200+ drained in overlapping licenses and parallel cloud storage.
- • 48-Hour Technical Kickoff: Direct deployment with certified Falcon Next-Gen SIEM engineers.
- • 30-Day Contractual Bound Parallel Run SLA: Hard cutover date eliminates indefinite dual licensing.
- • Net Cash Overlap Saved: $63,600–$100,000+ in prevented duplicate licensing costs.
Recommended Fixed-Milestone SOW & Payment Schedule
Fixed-fee, turn-key delivery for environments up to 1.5 TB/day and 35 active telemetry sources with complete detection parity.
- • 48-hour architecture kickoff inside client VPC.
- • Cribl / Onum / Falcon LogScale collector deployment.
- • Raw telemetry parsing, schema mapping & field normalization.
- • Zero customer data egress verification audit.
- • Triage of legacy SPL / QRadar AQL / Sentinel KQL rules.
- • Authoring of high-fidelity CrowdStrike Query Language (CQL).
- • Atomic Red Team synthetic attack simulation tests.
- • False-positive suppression and noise calibration.
- • 30-day bound parallel run completion sign-off.
- • Legacy SIEM ingestion decommission verification.
- • Falcon Fusion SOAR playbook triggers & runbooks.
- • 100% Client IP Assignment & key transfer.
Zero-Risk Enterprise Governance & Zero Managed SOC Upsell
Migrea operates exclusively as a specialized delivery engineering boutique. We do not sell proprietary appliances, do not hostage client IP, and strictly never compete with or upsell 24/7 Managed SOC operations. Our sole objective is executing fixed-milestone technical cutovers with zero operational friction.
All infrastructure, collectors, parser regex, and detection correlation pipelines execute directly inside client-owned cloud tenants (AWS/Azure/GCP) and your Falcon CID.
Customer telemetry never transits external SaaS proxies or third-party storage. Engineers connect via client-managed PAM/IAM with ephemeral session logging.
Contractually bound dual-run window prevents open-ended vendor delay bleed. Every migrated detection and parser is backed by our 30-day post-cutover logic warranty covering false-positive tuning and schema anomalies.
Strictly one-time migrations: Build, Validate, Transfer Keys. We never upsell or compete with 24/7 Managed SOC retainers. Every CQL query, Cribl route, Fusion playbook, and runbook belongs 100% to your enterprise upon final sign-off.
Executive SOW Acceptance & Kickoff Authorization
By signing below, the Client authorizes Migrea to commence the 48-Hour Technical Kickoff for the recommended scope and milestone deliverables detailed herein.