Spot the threat before it becomes a data loss

Most companies learn about a breach after the fact — once the data has already leaked and the files are encrypted. Not because they have no antivirus, but because no one pulls events from dozens of systems into a single picture and actually watches it. Enterprise-grade monitoring systems (Splunk and the like) can do this, but their license is often out of reach for a mid-sized business. The choice ends up being "expensive or nothing." We offer a third path — the same class of monitoring on open solutions, where you pay for deployment and support rather than for a license.

Deployment of a security monitoring system (SIEM/XDR built on Wazuh). A SIEM is a system that collects events from all your systems and finds the suspicious ones among them. This covers: event collection from servers and workstations, file integrity monitoring, vulnerability detection, and incident response. Network monitoring (intrusion detection). Rules tuned to your systems and custom module development — decoders, rules, and integrations for what actually runs in your environment (1C, industry applications, hardware). SOC as a service: monitoring, alert triage, and updates.

Security monitoring matters when you have something to lose: customer data, financial information, live services whose downtime costs money. Especially if you fall under data-protection or critical-infrastructure requirements (relevant in Azerbaijan). The open-source stack pays off when you don't want to pay license fees in the "equal to a salary" range and you value control over where your data lives.

When open-source specifically is not the right fit: if you need a single vendor with one accountability contract covering everything, you have neither an in-house team nor a budget for support, and you also need certified out-of-the-box settings — sometimes the honest choice is a proprietary solution. We'll tell you so directly rather than sell a complex stack to someone who can't sustain it in operation.

Open solutions remove the license fee, but they don't make security free. The cost moves from the "license" line to the "deployment and support" line — and that's more honest: you're paying for engineers' work and for real protection, not for the right to use someone else's software. A key advantage of the open stack for businesses in Azerbaijan is that you control where the data physically sits: on your own servers or at a facility inside the country. And open code can be adapted to your systems — something proprietary systems confine to the vendor's limits. The economics are unpacked in detail in the article Open-source SOC vs. expensive SIEM.

Compare your options against these points when deciding what to build your monitoring on:

• License. A proprietary SIEM charges by event volume, growing as your business grows. The open stack has no license; you pay for deployment and support.
• Where the data lives. The vendor's cloud (often abroad) versus your own perimeter or a facility in the country.
• Customization. A closed box is limited to what the vendor built in; open code lets you write modules for your systems.
• Support. A single vendor with an SLA versus your team or external support (as in our service).
• Out-of-the-box maturity. Proprietary tools ship with certified settings; the open stack is configured to fit you, which takes expertise.
• Total cost. This isn't "license versus zero" — it's the full total cost of ownership over several years, support included.

Specific savings figures depend on your event volume and infrastructure — they're calculated in a free assessment. We name specifics only after running the numbers on your data, never as empty claims.

A company received a requirement to bring its data protection into compliance, and the proposals for an enterprise SIEM came back with an annual license its budget couldn't carry. Here's how we usually solve it: assess the infrastructure and requirements → deploy monitoring on an open stack in a closed facility → connect servers, workstations, and network traffic → tune rules and develop custom modules for the systems in use → hand over dashboards and train the team, or run the SOC ourselves. The goal: meet the requirements and see threats coming, with no license fees.

• What are SOC and SIEM in plain terms? A SIEM is software that collects events from all your systems and finds the suspicious ones. A SOC is the people and processes around it: someone watching the alerts and responding. We can provide both the tool and the support.
• How secure is open-source? Open code is often more auditable than closed code: the whole community reviews it, not a single vendor. The risk isn't in the openness but in the quality of configuration and support — and that's on us.
• Is it cheaper than an enterprise SIEM? There's no license; you pay for deployment and support. Whether it's cheaper in your case is something we calculate in an assessment with your numbers, with no empty promises.
• Do you tailor it to our systems? Yes. We write decoders, rules, and integrations for what runs in your environment (1C, industry applications, hardware) — that's the core advantage of the open stack.
• Where will the monitoring data be stored? On your facility or on our infrastructure in Azerbaijan — the data stays within your perimeter or in the country.
• Can it meet critical-infrastructure requirements? Yes — the open stack can be configured to data-protection and critical information infrastructure (CII) requirements. We define the exact scope of compliance against your obligations.