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Cloud Cost Management for Cybersecurity Companies

Cybersecurity companies are dealing with massive log volumes, expensive SIEM bills, and strict retention policies. Costimizer reduces unnecessary log load and spend so you only store what’s valuable.

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Why Are Cybersecurity Companies Overspending on Cloud?

In cybersecurity, more data usually means better protection, but it also means massive cloud bills. You are likely paying to store terabytes of data just to find a handful of threats. It is time to pay for the signal, not the just data.

  • Overlogging: You are terrified of missing an attack, so you log every single event at the highest point. Now your company is paying tons in storage fees for data nobody ever looks at.
  • Sky-High SIEM Costs: Your SIEM tool charges by the gigabyte for ingestion. You are feeding it terabytes of low-value logs every day, and the monthly bill looks like a ransom note.
  • Costly Hot Storage: You keep years of compliance logs in expensive Hot storage tiers because moving them feels risky or complicated. You are paying premium rent for digital boxes you haven't opened in years.
  • Hidden Data Transfer Fees: You are moving huge datasets between regions for redundancy or analysis. The cloud providers charge you a toll for every gigabyte that crosses a regional border, and it adds up fast.
  • Forgotten GPU Servers: You spin up massive GPU clusters to run deep-learning threat analysis or password cracking simulations, but often forget to turn them off once the job is done.

How Cybersecurity Companies Can Benefit from Costimizer?

Smarter Retention
Automatically move older logs from expensive hot storage to ultra-cheap archive tiers the moment they aren't needed for active hunting.
Lower Ingestion Costs
Identify which log sources are useless, so you can filter them out before they hit your expensive SIEM or analytics tools.
Cheaper Redundancy
Maintain your required disaster recovery posture without keeping full-scale duplicate environments running 24/7.
Spot Instance Power
Run your massive batch processing jobs, like historical log analysis or crypto-scanning, on Spot Instances for up to 90% savings.
Compliance Confidence
Prove to auditors that you are retaining exactly what is required for the correct amount of time without overpaying.

Features Every Cybersecurity Company Needs

Intelligent Storage Tiering

  • Define lifecycle policies based on compliance rules.
  • Automatically archive PCAP files and heavy forensic data.

Data Transfer Analyzer

  • Visualize exactly where your data is flowing between regions and availability zones.
  • Spot unnecessary cross-region traffic that triggers high egress fees.

Orphaned Resource Cleanup

  • Find and delete unattached Elastic IPs and old snapshots from decommissioned firewalls or gateways.
  • Clean up storage volumes left behind by terminated pen-test environments.

Workload Scheduling

  • Automatically shut down non-production threat simulation labs on weekends.
  • Schedule heavy scanning jobs during off-peak hours when compute is cheaper.

Tagging for Attribution

  • Tag costs by specific customer environments (for MSSPs) or by threat campaign.
  • Track the infrastructure cost of specific security tools or platforms.
  • Analyze your baseline always-on monitoring infrastructure to recommend safe Reserved Instance purchases.

Compliance Reporting

  • Generate reports showing that data retention policies are active and cost-optimized.
  • Alert on data residency violations (e.g., GDPR data stored in the wrong region).

The Old Security Struggle vs. The Costimizer Way

The Old Way

The Costimizer Way

Logging 100% of data just to be safe

Logging smart and filtering out the overload

Keeping 5 years of logs in expensive Hot storage

Automating archival to Glacier/Cold tiers after 30 days

Paying full price for batch analysis jobs

Using Spot Instances for heavy background processing

Ignoring data transfer costs

Optimizing network routing to kill egress fees

Manual audits to see what we are storing

Automated dashboards showing storage types and costs

Fear-based overprovisioning

Data-backed capacity planning

Best Practices for Cyber Security Companies

Dos

Don'ts

Do use VPC endpoints to keep traffic within the cloud network and avoid public internet egress fees.

Don't use your SIEM as a long-term archive. It is the most expensive place to store data. Use S3 or Blob storage instead.

Do compress your logs before sending them to storage or your SIEM.

Don't run threat scanning appliances 24/7 in dev environments if nobody is working.

Do tag resources by Data Sensitivity to apply different backup and retention policies automatically.

Don't ignore incomplete multipart uploads which can leave ghost data in your storage buckets costing you money.

Do review your DEBUG level logging settings regularly to ensure they aren't left on in production.

Don't let fear prevent you from optimizing. Savings fund better security tools.

Get Started with Costimizer Today

Your cloud cost optimization journey shouldn't wait anymore, there already many things on hold. Don't let your cloud budget hold you back even more.

Step 01: Connect
Link your cloud accounts securely with read-only permissions.
Step 02: Scan
We analyze your storage buckets, transfer costs, and compute usage.
Step 03: Automate
We help you set up automated policies to move old logs to cheaper storage.
Step 04: Save
Watch your storage and ingestion bills drop while your retention capabilities stay the same.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will optimizing costs compromise our security posture or uptime?

No. We never touch your security configurations or firewalls. We focus on the infrastructure waste, like cold data sitting in hot storage or idle servers that aren't doing any work.

We are an MSSP managing security for many clients. Can we separate the costs?

Yes. We allow you to tag and view costs per client. This helps you understand the margins on your managed services and ensure you aren't underpricing high-volume customers.

Does this help with data compliance audits like PCI or HIPAA?

It helps significantly. We ensure your data retention policies are actually being followed automatically, so when an auditor asks if you are retaining logs for 7 years, you can prove it instantly.

Can you help reduce our AWS or Datadog bill?

Indirectly, yes. By helping you identify and filter out low-value infrastructure logs at the source, you send less data to your SIEM, which lowers your ingestion bill.

How much will be the transfer costs?

We visualize exactly which services are talking to each other across regions. Often, a simple configuration change to keep traffic within the same availability zone can save thousands in egress fees.

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