Your SIEM Shouldn't
Be a Single Point
of Failure.
Centralized SIEMs were designed for a different threat era. Sentinel distributes correlation across every node — no ingestion bottleneck, no data-export risk, no single point attackers can silence.
The Centralization
Tax.
Every major breach of the last five years shares a common precondition: the victim's SIEM was overwhelmed, delayed, or actively bypassed. The architecture was the attack surface.
of SIEM deployments hit ingestion limits during incident surges
When you need your SIEM most — during an active breach — centralized architectures throttle intake, drop events, and leave analysts flying blind.
average alerts per day at a mid-market SOC — 97% are false positives
Correlation engines running on stale, sampled data generate noise. Distributed correlation with full telemetry cuts false positives by 91%.
median dwell time when SIEM ingestion is degraded during an incident
Attackers know centralized SIEMs have limits. They probe ingestion capacity before executing the main payload.
Ingestion Failure Rate During Incident Surge
% of deployments experiencing event loss within 90 seconds of attack onset
The Mesh
Architecture.
Sentinel replaces the hub-and-spoke SIEM topology with a distributed mesh where every node is both a sensor and a correlation engine. There is no single process to kill, no single pipe to flood.
No Central Ingestor
Each node runs a full correlation engine. Events never leave their origin datacenter unless a cross-region threat is confirmed.
Consensus-Based Correlation
Threat verdicts require quorum from peer nodes. A compromised or silenced node cannot suppress a confirmed detection.
Elastic Mesh Topology
Nodes join and leave without reconfiguration. Add a node in a new region and it automatically participates in correlation within 90 seconds.
Sovereign Retention
Audit logs remain in-region. Compliance snapshots are cryptographically signed at the node level — no third-party cloud required.
Benchmark
Evidence.
Independent red team testing across 12 enterprise environments. Sentinel versus leading centralized SIEMs under sustained attack load.
Ingestion Throughput Under Surge Load
% of rated capacity sustained · 8-month longitudinal study
Sentinel maintained full ingestion across all 12 red team scenarios. Zero events dropped.
Audit-Ready.
By Architecture.
Compliance isn't a feature you bolt on. Sentinel's retention model is baked into the node topology — logs are hash-chained at origin, retained in-region, and cryptographically signed for auditor review.
SOC 2 Type II
AutomatedContinuous evidence collection. Audit packages generated on-demand without manual log export.
PCI DSS v4.0
AutomatedCardholder data environment logs never leave the node. Cryptographic attestation for auditor review.
ISO 27001
AutomatedControl mapping updated in real time as threat landscape shifts. No annual snapshot risk.
GDPR / CCPA
AutomatedPersonal data stays in declared region. Data lineage graph available for DPA inquiries within seconds.
NIST CSF 2.0
AutomatedGovern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover — all mapped to live telemetry streams.
FedRAMP Moderate
In ReviewAuthorization package in progress. GovCloud node topology available for federal deployments.
Retention Architecture
Hash-chained · In-region · Cryptographically signed
A Series C payments company reduced PCI audit prep from 6 weeks to 4 hours after deploying Sentinel. Audit package generated on-demand, no log export, examiner reviewed in-place.
Deployments
That Held.
Three customer archetypes. Three different threat models. One architecture that performed under real production load — including during active incidents.
Regional financial services, 1,200 employees
"We went from 340,000 alerts a day to actionable detections we can actually investigate. My team sleeps again."

Managed security provider, 47 client environments
"Stitching together client SIEMs with duct tape was costing us three engineers. Sentinel's multi-tenant mesh topology replaced all of it."

Series B payments platform, PCI in-scope
"Our compliance lead told the board we had audit-ready logs with cryptographic attestation. That conversation used to take weeks of preparation."
