A board does not want to hear that you processed three billion events last week. They want to hear that the four incidents that mattered were contained, eradicated, and recovered, with the times, the signatures, and the evidence the insurer and regulator will ask for already in the envelope. Edge is built around that reporting model.
Traditional SIEM reports tell you what happened to the pipeline: events ingested, alerts triggered, rules tuned. Edge reports tell you what happened to the business. Every incident graduates through three verbs, each with a wall-clock time and a signed artefact.
Host isolation, credential lockout, session revocation, process kill, network segment quarantine. Time-to-containment is measured from the first triaged alert to the moment the adversary's reach is bounded. Insurers increasingly quote on this number.
Persistence mechanisms cleared, implants pulled, credentials rotated, malicious artefacts quarantined with signed hash. The eradication artefact lists every indicator, every system touched, and every remediating action with its operator.
Endpoints reimaged or cleared, services returned to production, users unblocked, monitoring uplift applied. Time-to-recovery is the number your CFO, board and cyber-insurer all ultimately care about. Edge records it as a first-class field on every case.
MTTD and MTTR are useful, but they stop at the wrong line. MTTD ends when you notice. MTTR ends when the alert is closed. Neither measures the gap that insurers and regulators actually price: the time your business was degraded. Edge records time-to-outcome on every incident, with full event-level reproducibility.
Each metric is a direct derivation of the verb lifecycle, broken out by business unit, severity band and attack category. Your CISO can report against the trend, your risk team against the variance, and your insurer against the commitment.
Four verbs. Four timings. One page. No event counts. No rule-tuning language. Edge produces this automatically per quarter, per business unit, per programme, signed and ready to include in the risk committee pack. The CISO stops writing the summary. The platform writes it.
Renewal season is now the most expensive quarter of the year for security teams. Underwriters increasingly want proof of control, not attestation. Edge's case package is designed to be handed over intact, with a signed manifest, zero post-processing, and every artefact an insurer's forensic panel will reasonably request.
Insurers price on unquantified risk. When you can hand an underwriter a one-page outcome certificate that shows your last four incidents closed with a median time-to-containment of 11 minutes and a median time-to-recovery of 4 hours, the conversation stops being about premium scaling and starts being about deductible reduction. Customers on Edge typically see premium-retention benefits within the first renewal cycle.
Every major financial, critical-infrastructure and health-sector regulator has pivoted in the last three years away from control-library compliance and toward operational resilience. They want to know whether you could contain, whether you could recover, and how long it took. Edge produces that evidence natively.
The cost of traditional SIEM is not the licence. It is the way the licence grows with your data. Per-GB ingest, per-event pricing, per-analyst seat. Edge flips the economics. The platform is priced per endpoint, on open-core licensing your CFO can forecast against. At 500 endpoints, the difference is not single-digit percent. It is an order of magnitude.
| Platform | 500 endpoints, annual | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| SIEMonster Edge | from $22,788 | Full platform, unlimited ingest, on-device AI, response agent |
| Splunk Enterprise Security | $100K–$250K | Licence + ingest + ES add-on; excludes infra |
| Microsoft Sentinel | $120K–$300K | Per-GB ingest; excludes connectors and Defender licensing |
| CrowdStrike NG-SIEM | $150K–$280K | Per-GB ingest + seat + agent; bundle pricing varies |
The 70–90% delta is the baseline. The deeper cost advantage sits in infrastructure displaced: Edge's co-located storage removes the warehouse tier most traditional SIEMs require you to stand up, and the on-device AI removes the per-token inference spend that cloud analyst assistants are starting to accrue.
The platform saving is the visible line. The larger number is risk reduction: faster containment, demonstrable outcomes, a case pack the insurer can read. The combined effect is what lets CFOs sign the budget and risk committees sign the posture in the same quarter.