SOLUTION / SECURITY DATA LAKE
Cy5 ingests telemetry from any cloud, normalises it in real time, and stores it at the economics of object storage, so your SOC team hunts threats, not storage bills.
The failure is not one of awareness. CISOs understand the threat landscape. The failure is architectural, security data lives in the wrong place, at the wrong cost, with the wrong access patterns.
Cloud infrastructure generates events that outpace ingestion budgets. Teams filter aggressively at the source, discarding telemetry that's critical during an investigation months later.
Data loss at ingestionScheduled polling creates a structural blind spot. Attackers pivot from initial access to exfiltration in under 10 minutes. Your SIEM finds out an hour later, if the log wasn't filtered first.
Polling latency riskCommercial SIEM limits cap retention at 30–60 days. CERT-In mandates 180. When a regulatory inquiry demands historical trail data, the gap isn't a technical problem, it's a compliance liability.
Compliance exposureThis is not a storage management problem. It is a detection capability problem wearing a cost problem's clothes, and conventional SIEM architectures were never designed for the multi-cloud, compliance-heavy realities of Indian enterprises.
Cy5 Diagnostic · Cloud-Native SOC Readiness
Most enterprise security teams assume more SIEM solves a detection problem, it doesn't. A SIEM is an analytics engine, and its output is only as good as the data feeding it.
Cy5 inverts that logic: fix the data first, and detection compounds automatically. Security telemetry is written once and queried rarely, for alerting, investigation, and
threat hunting
See how graph-driven threat hunting reveals hidden cloud attack paths, lateral movement, and toxic IAM chains traditional CSPM tools miss.
yet it's stored in expensive hot-storage architectures designed for high-frequency transactions. Object storage with serverless query engines is the economically correct architecture for this access pattern.
Cy5 applies that principle operationally, with the security-specific enrichment and correlation logic a generic data lake doesn't provide.
ICT infrastructure operators must retain logs for 180 days and report qualifying incidents within six hours. Most SIEM environments don't meet either requirement simultaneously.
RBI requires log management aligned to ISO 27001 with periodic audit readiness. For BFSI and NBFCs, coverage gaps aren't inconveniences — they're regulatory liabilities.
The DPDP Act introduces localisation requirements that affect where security telemetry can be stored. Global SIEM vendors were not built with this constraint in mind.
Cy5's Security Data Lake is a cloud-native, serverless platform that ingests security telemetry from any source, enriches it through contextual correlation, and stores it at object storage economics — with full query capability. No scheduled polling. No detection windows. Event-driven from source to signal.
Each capability is purpose-built to close a specific gap in cloud-native security, and they compound when deployed together.
Object storage-backed lake with encryption at rest, delete protection, versioning, and distributed redundancy. Queryable via standard SQL, no proprietary query languages.
12-month retention for CERT-In compliance costs a fraction of equivalent SIEM hot storage. Historical data available for threat hunting without egress cost surprises.
CISOs · Compliance LeadsVendor-agnostic collection from cloud-native sources, on-prem infrastructure, identity providers, SaaS platforms, and custom resources. Quick onboarding without lengthy integration projects.
Eliminates coverage gaps from connector-limited architectures. Every security-relevant telemetry source contributes to the detection surface.
Cloud Architects · DevSecOpsParses, enriches, and applies behaviour analysis to detect toxic combinations across cloud, identity, network, and workload layers, not single-source rule hits.
A misconfigured EC2 + public access + full IAM is only detectable when all three sources are correlated in the same analytical context.
SOC Leaders · Security ArchitectsCompares granted permissions vs. permissions actually exercised. Surfaces access keys without MFA, over-provisioned accounts, and service accounts with dangerous create permissions.
Most privilege escalation paths begin with an identity that appears legitimate but carries disproportionate access relative to its operational need.
CISOs · IAM OwnersMaps CVEs against compute context — public exposure, network reachability, active exploitation. Filters 100% critical/high down to ~5% that are genuinely exploitable.
An organisation that can't distinguish a critical CVE on a public API from the same CVE on an internal batch processor can't prioritise remediation.
DevSecOps · Platform TeamsRead-only scanner pod monitors container privilege escalation, insecure API exposure, permissive RBAC, CoreDNS risks. Metadata enriched in the Cy5 Control Plane.
K8s security degradation is incremental, permissions added without review, baseline images not updated. Continuous posture monitoring surfaces drift before exploitation.
Platform Engineers · DevOpsServerless architecture; no cluster management, no capacity planning. SQL-compatible query interface integrates with Zeppelin, EMR, Athena for threat hunting. JSON-structured alert output feeds existing SOAR platforms and ticketing systems without transformation. For organisations with existing SIEM investments, Cy5 functions as the long-term retention and analytics layer, reducing SIEM ingestion costs significantly.
Illustrative composites from production deployments across fintech, telecom, and GCC sectors, with verified outcome metrics.
How a Series B payments platform achieved 180-day retention and 85% noise reduction — deployed in under 24 hours.
How a managed SOC cut MTTD by 97% and recovered 3 person-months/year from manual alert triage.
How a Hyderabad delivery centre gained unified AWS + Azure visibility and 96% noise reduction — zero headcount added.
We walk you through a scoped assessment of your current logging and detection architecture, specific to your cloud environment, compliance obligations, and team structure. No generic demos. No sales pressure.
Every metric below is drawn from production deployments across fintech, telecom, and GCC sectors, not lab benchmarks.
Event-driven architecture eliminates the detection window created by scheduled polling. Organisations that previously measured MTTD in hours measure it in minutes.
Contextual correlation suppresses events below multi-source risk threshold. Alerts that reach analysts carry cloud context, identity context, and permission state.
180-day retention at object storage economics. Organisations that previously capped at 30–60 days extend to 180+ without proportionate cost increases.
Time recovered from manual triage, compliance reporting, and cross-system correlation is returned to threat hunting, rule tuning, and security architecture review.
Cy5 operates alongside existing SIEM investments. Long-term retention and historical querying move out of hot storage, SIEM ingestion volumes decrease significantly.
Public network access + overpermissive compute + full IAM access, risk combinations that individual posture tools miss because they evaluate each dimension in isolation.
RBI, SEBI, IRDAI, ISO 27001, SOC 2, manual evidence collection reduced from 2–4 weeks to hours per cycle. Logs retained, queries reproducible, audit trails tamper-evident.
New cloud accounts, services, entities, or compliance obligations, the serverless architecture gets more effective as the organisation grows, rather than accumulating technical debt.
We walk you through a scoped assessment of your current logging and detection architecture, specific to your cloud environment, compliance obligations, and team structure.
No generic demos. No sales pressure. Scoped to your environment, team, and compliance obligations.
Founder & CEO, Cy5.io
Vikram contributes to the security practitioner community through GRMI, RootConf, and EC-Council platforms. Cy5 has spoken at Accel's Cybersecurity Summit on serverless detection engineering, recognitions that reflect practitioner credibility rather than marketing programme participation.
A scoped, engineering-led engagement — not a generic POC. Every phase produces a tangible output.
60–90 min structured session. Cloud accounts, log sources, existing tooling, compliance obligations, and team structure mapped. Read-only access, no data egress.
Serverless Security Data Lake deployed. No infrastructure provisioning. No agents for cloud-native sources. First detection signals visible within hours.
Detection engineers build behavioural baselines against your topology. Alert thresholds calibrated. False positive rate benchmarked against your actual environment.
Retention policies set for CERT-In 180-day and RBI framework. Automated compliance report templates configured. Audit evidence workflows validated.
SOC team trained on console, triage workflows, threat hunting queries, and data lake access. Ongoing rule updates. Quarterly posture reviews.
Deployed against real telemetry with Cy5 engineering resource. Not a self-serve trial.
Reflects scope, not seat counts. No ingestion tiers penalising full-fidelity logging.
GST, onshore SLAs, CERT-In familiarity. NDA-first for sensitive pre-sales.
Cy5's engagement model is designed for Indian enterprise procurement realities — scoped pilots, outcome-referenced pricing, and no multi-year lock-in.
The standard engagement begins with a time-boxed pilot — typically 2–4 weeks — deployed in your environment against real cloud telemetry. Cy5 brings engineering resource to configure detection rules against your specific environment. The output is a working deployment with benchmarked noise reduction and validated compliance posture.
2–4 week time-boxed pilot deployed against real cloud telemetry. Cy5 brings detection engineering resource — this is a scoped engagement, not a self-serve product trial. Both parties validate fit before committing to a full subscription term.
Pricing reflects the scope of your cloud environment and compliance obligations — not arbitrary seat counts or ingestion volume tiers that penalise organisations for full-fidelity logging. Serverless architecture passes storage economics back to you.
The Cy5 team is India-based, which has practical implications for procurement timelines, GST compliance, onshore support SLAs, and the regulatory familiarity that matters when a CERT-In incident report needs filing within six hours.
Available for sensitive pre-sales discussions
Initial response within 1 business day
Proof-before-commitment for initial pilots
Architecture docs + SOC/ISO evidence for parent approvals
We scope the engagement to your environment, team size, and compliance obligations. No generic demos. No sales pressure. Initial engagements proceed without multi-year lock-in — aligning with standard Indian enterprise procurement preference.
A 30-minute scoped conversation with a Cy5 security architect. Specific to your cloud, compliance, and team.
A centralised, cost-efficient storage and analytics layer purpose-built for security telemetry. Unlike a SIEM which couples storage with real-time analytics at high cost, a security data lake separates storage from analytics — allowing full-fidelity retention at object storage economics while querying with SQL-compatible engines for threat hunting, investigation, and compliance reporting.
A SIEM is an analytics engine with embedded storage — useful for real-time alerting but expensive for long-term retention. A security data lake handles full-fidelity long-term storage and historical analytics; the SIEM consumes pre-correlated, enriched alerts. They're complementary. Cy5 integrates both, so you get SIEM-quality alerting without SIEM-tier storage costs.
Not necessarily. Cy5 can operate alongside your SIEM, supplying it with enriched, pre-correlated event streams rather than raw logs — reducing ingestion volume and cost while adding long-term retention and threat hunting capability. Where you're re-evaluating your SIEM investment, Cy5's integrated SIEM engine can serve as the replacement.
Cloud-native (AWS CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, Azure Monitor, GCP Audit Logs, Azure AD), on-premises (Cisco, NGINX, Apache syslog), Microsoft 365 audit trails, container and Kubernetes logs, identity provider logs, and custom application telemetry via API. The ingestion pipeline is vendor-agnostic — no pre-approved connector list required.
AWS Security Lake, Azure Sentinel, and GCP SCC provide strong within-cloud visibility but create coverage gaps at cloud boundaries. Cy5 is cloud-agnostic — it correlates telemetry across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises sources in a single analytical context. The correlation engine identifies cross-cloud risk combinations that single-cloud tools structurally cannot detect.
The contextual correlation engine enriches events with cloud context (network exposure, permission state, resource criticality) and identity context (permissions in use vs. granted, MFA status) before generating alerts. This multi-dimensional enrichment suppresses events lacking risk context while surfacing genuine combinations. 85–96% noise reduction achieved in production without increasing false negative rates.
Cy5 cross-references CVE data against container images, then maps vulnerabilities against cloud and network context — specifically whether the workload is publicly reachable, network-accessible, and actively running. This reduces the actionable set from 100% of critical/high CVEs to approximately 5% that are exploitable in your specific topology.
Read-only access via scanner pod identifies containers allowing command execution, API server insecure ports, overly permissive RBAC roles, containers with root privileges, missing network policies, and CoreDNS modification privileges. Findings are enriched with use-case context and displayed with remediation guidance.
Telemetry stored in object storage with encryption, versioning, and delete protection — retaining logs for 180 days or longer as configured. Retention policy enforced automatically at deployment. The serverless architecture makes 180-day retention viable without the cost escalation of equivalent SIEM retention. Automated compliance reports confirm coverage for audit.
CERT-In log retention and incident reporting directives, RBI cybersecurity framework for regulated entities, SEBI cybersecurity framework, and DPDP Act data localisation considerations. ISO 27001 audit readiness and SOC 2 evidence collection supported through automated reporting. The Cy5 team is India-based and familiar with these practical compliance workflows.
For AWS, Azure, or GCP environments, deployment and initial log ingestion complete in under 24 hours. No infrastructure provisioning required — serverless architecture deploys into your existing cloud account. First actionable signals visible within hours. Full tuning and compliance configuration complete within 10–15 business days.
Cy5 serves organisations across the spectrum — from Series B-funded fintech platforms to large telecommunications operators and GCC delivery centres. The serverless, consumption-based architecture means deployment complexity and cost scale with environment scope rather than requiring a minimum infrastructure commitment.
Cy5's Security Data Lake gives your SOC complete telemetry, your analysts actionable signals, and your compliance team defensible evidence — without SIEM-tier storage economics.
Event-driven protection. Zero blind spots. Infinite scale.
