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Cloud Security Data Lake

The data foundation under Agentic Runtime Security

Forensic-grade telemetry across cloud, SaaS, identity, and AI: normalized, enriched, and kept investigation-ready for 1,000+ days. So your analysts and AI agents detect and contain active attacks without blind spots.

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If your data layer can't produce context, your runtime defense breaks at the point of use.

The problem

The SOC was built for endpoints. The data problem moved.

Storage is no longer the hard part. Turning raw logs into context, fast enough to matter, is.

Most enterprises already have more security telemetry than they can use. The hard part is turning raw rows from cloud providers, SaaS apps, identity systems, and AI services into context, fast enough to matter.

Analysts burn time translating schemas, stitching events together, and deciding whether scattered activity belongs to the same incident. AI agents hit the same wall even faster: point one at raw data in a generic lake and the context window collapses, token cost spikes, and the answers get worse.

Mitiga built the Cloud Security Data Lake as a working security substrate, not passive storage you bolt security onto after the fact.

Why this matters now

Four forces make the data layer strategic

The enterprise now runs on cloud, SaaS, identity, AI, and third-party services. Each force raises the value of the same thing: a full-fidelity, investigation-ready data foundation that both analysts and AI can use.

Driver 01

A compensating control for AI-discovered vulnerabilities

AI now finds vulnerabilities faster than the world can patch them, and exploitation often begins before a fix ships. When you can't close the window in time, you need to detect, disrupt, and stop what gets through.

Driver 02

SaaS and shadow SaaS visibility

The average enterprise runs hundreds of SaaS apps: sanctioned, unsanctioned, and entirely unknown. You can't defend what you can't see, and posture tools were never built to surface active SaaS misuse.

Driver 03

Agentic and non-human identity threats

Chatbots, copilots, and autonomous agents now act with their own credentials and permissions. The fastest-growing identity on your network is often not a person, and it operates entirely outside the endpoint's view.

Driver 04

Attacks that move at machine speed

Modern attacks cross cloud, SaaS, identity, AI, and third-party services in minutes. Defending against them means anticipating, detecting, interrupting, and stopping active attacks across the entire modern infrastructure, in runtime.

The explainer

What is a security data lake?

Built for forensics, not generic storage you bolt security onto later.

A security data lake is a central, investigation-ready store for security telemetry, built for forensics rather than generic storage you bolt security onto later.

Mitiga's Cloud Security Data Lake keeps cloud, SaaS, identity, AI, and third-party telemetry in one normalized, enriched, investigation-ready model, so teams investigate from the complete, correlated record instead of jumping between raw logs, archives, and siloed tools.

The economics

Most platforms can't afford to keep all your data

Processing security logs on general-purpose engines gets expensive fast. That cost pressure pushes platforms toward the same compromise: sample the data, drop noisy events, or shorten retention.

Pouring everything into a SIEM and then into cold storage doesn't solve it. You inherit the SIEM's cost problem and hand the customer the job of making sense of what's in there. Sampling is a business decision dressed up as a security one, leaving gaps exactly where an investigation needs depth.

The takeaway
Partial data means partial security.
Coverage

One lake. Every surface.

The Cloud Security Data Lake spans cloud, identity, productivity, SaaS apps, SaaS infrastructure, AI infrastructure, AI SaaS, and third-party services, normalized into one working model. And an agentic ingestion pipeline keeps accelerating that coverage.

50+
platforms
100s
of data sources
1
normalized model

Cloud

AWS, Azure, GCP

Identity

Okta, Entra ID, Ping, and others

Productivity

Google Workspace, Microsoft 365

SaaS apps

Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, Jira, and other business-critical platforms

SaaS infrastructure

Control surfaces such as GitHub, Snowflake, and adjacent services

AI infrastructure

Bedrock, Vertex, Azure AI

AI SaaS

ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and embedded AI agents and copilots

Third-party services

Adjacent platforms and integrations across the modern infrastructure

How we solve it

Aggregation and context turn a lake into runtime defense

Raw logs aren't the value. Mitiga stores raw data at full fidelity, normalizes schemas, builds aggregation and context layers that resolve entities and preserve continuity, then generates the 1 to 3 percent subset of detections and forensic events that drives runtime action.

Layer 01

Raw logs

100's of sources, every schema, full fidelity.

Layer 02

Aggregation

Normalized and deduplicated into one working model, optimized for search across sources.

Layer 03

Context

Enrichment, security semantics, entity resolution, and joined evidence where it matters.

Layer 04

Detection

Behavioral detections and forensic events built on context, not isolated rules.

Aggregation and context are the work, and the part most data lakes never finish.

The hard problem

Schema management is the unsung challenge

Every source has its own schema, and those schemas drift constantly. Some vendors change schema on a near-weekly basis. When detections sit directly on raw vendor formats, a quiet change breaks the logic and the search returns nothing, often unnoticed until an investigation reveals the gap.

Why lakes become swamps

Every source, its own schema

Drift silently breaks detections and forces teams to become experts in every vendor's log format.

What Mitiga does

100+ sources, one model

Config-driven ETL and central schema management normalize change continuously, sometimes repopulating a moved field for backward compatibility, so runtime defense keeps working while history stays queryable.

Open by design

Open at the access layer

The Cloud Security Data Lake is not a walled garden. Mitiga exposes it through an open, documented schema, MCP and API access, bring-your-own-bucket deployment, and clean export paths into the SIEM.

Open schema

Published and usable directly by customers.

MCP + API

Query the lake in place, programmatically or in natural language, no SQL required.

Bring your own bucket

Your storage, your retention policy, your control.

Export to SIEM

Send downstream only the contextualized subset that adds value.

Why it matters for AI

An MCP is only as good as the lake beneath it

Don't send an AI agent into a data swamp. Give it a lake with layers and context.

An MCP is, in the end, an API. Point one at raw data in a generic lake and it bogs down: context windows fill, token cost climbs, and results degrade.

Mitiga's MCP was built on top of real-world IR and threat-hunting know-how. It starts at the forensic-event and aggregation layers and only digs into raw data where needed. Analysts and AI get the same thing they both require: pre-processed, normalized, investigation-ready context that's correlated  across your entire modern infrastructure.

Built on the lake

A detection factory the lake makes possible

Because the lake already holds enriched, full-history data, Mitiga builds and validates detections faster than traditional engineering allows. The Agentic Detection Factory maintains a repository of over 5,000 detections, growing by hundreds monthly.

Real coverage, not token coverage

Thousands of production detections across the modern infrastructure, with deep per-platform coverage.

Engineering velocity

The Agentic Detection Factory pipeline lifts output far beyond hand-written rates, so new platforms and sources are covered quickly.

Custom detections

Query-based, pre-tested, and tailored to your environment.

Case study

When the SOC was blind, the lake saw it

A large enterprise had its Salesforce logs streaming into Splunk at significant cost, then ran a red-team exercise against that environment. The SOC missed it, because raw logs no one can interpret are useless whether they sit in a SIEM or a lake.

Mitiga, working from the same data enriched and contextualized in the lake, caught nearly all of the red team's scenarios and techniques. Salesforce raw logs are notoriously difficult to work with; the difference wasn't more data, it was data made usable.

For any log, the value isn't collecting it, it's making it understandable enough to act and defend on in runtime.

From lake to runtime

From lake to Agentic Runtime Security

The data layer isn't just the storage tier beneath Agentic Runtime Security, it's the operating model that makes it credible. Mitiga runs detections on live data in parallel with writing it to the lake, driving the entire pipeline: collect, enrich, aggregate, detect, triage.

Step 01

Context-rich data layer

Normalized, enriched, queryable, investigation-ready.

Step 02

AI triage

Severity and context update automatically as the attack story builds.

Step 03

Contain and respond

Verdict-backed context flows into incident handling, SIEM alerts, ticketing, and automated response.

Mitiga runs Agentic Runtime Security on top of the lake. The lake is what makes runtime defense trustworthy.

What it's built for

Built for Agentic Runtime Security, not generic storage

01

Investigate from the complete record. Full-fidelity, long-horizon history instead of sampled evidence.

02

Contain without waiting on data. Move from signal to evidence to action without rebuilding context on the fly.

03

Report with confidence. Forensic-grade history that supports compliance, disclosure, and executive explanation.

04

Lower downstream log pressure. Send only contextualized, high-value data into the SIEM instead of brute-forcing everything through it.

05

Create the foundation for Agentic Runtime Security. Because the goal isn't cheaper storage, it's faster detection, faster containment, and more defensible investigations.

At a glance

The data layer, with and without Mitiga

Capability
The data layer with Mitiga
A generic lake or SIEM cold storage

Agentic Runtime Security

The full operating model for runtime defense: anticipating, disrupting, and stopping active attacks across cloud, SaaS, identity, AI, and third-party services before they reach the business.

No runtime defense capability. Raw data sits in storage waiting to be queried: no enrichment, no behavioral detection, no mechanism for interrupting an attack in progress.

Retention you can investigate

1,000+ days of normalized, enriched, query-ready history across cloud, SaaS, identity, and AI.

Full fidelity is sampled or aged into cold storage to control cost. Long-horizon history is unavailable at the moment it is most needed.

Context layer

Aggregation layers for fast search plus context layers that resolve entities, preserve schema continuity, and make data usable for both analysts and AI.

Raw rows. Context is left for the analyst, or the AI agent, to reconstruct from scratch on every query.

Source schema drift

Config-driven ETL and central schema management continuously normalize change across 100+ sources, keeping detections and historical queries intact.

Vendor schema changes silently break detections and searches. Teams must find and fix each break manually, often after the damage is done.

AI triage

Evidence gathering, attack timeline reconstruction, verdict, and recommended response actions for every alert, handled before a human opens the case.

Every alert lands cold in a queue. Analysts gather evidence, pivot across consoles, and rebuild the timeline by hand: hours of work before a verdict.

Query cost at scale

Aggregation layers answer most questions before touching raw data, keeping compute costs predictable even at petabyte scale.

Every query scans raw data. Compute cost climbs steeply with depth and time range, making thorough investigations prohibitively expensive.

Built for AI

MCP + API start at high-value aggregation and forensic-event layers, then dig into raw data only as needed, keeping token cost low and results high.

AI agents reason over raw rows: context windows fill, token cost spikes, and result quality degrades. The data swamp is expensive and ineffective.

Data ownership

Bring-your-own-bucket: your storage, your retention policy, your control. Data stored as open-format files you can access independently.

Data locked in a vendor-owned environment and pricing model. Portability and control are constrained by the vendor's terms.

No SIEM tax

Full-fidelity forensic depth across 1,000+ days without ingest costs or data overload. Send only the contextualized 1 to 5 percent subset downstream to your SIEM.

The SIEM ingests everything, driving up per-GB costs and forcing a trade-off between what gets indexed and what gets dropped. The tax scales with your data.

Why other approaches fall short

Cheaper storage isn't a security strategy

A generic lake lowers your storage bill and hands you back the SIEM's real problem: someone still has to understand what's in there, manage schema change, and build detections that survive it.

Just pointing an AI agent at a generic lake fails in practice. On raw data, the context window collapses and token cost makes it both expensive and ineffective. Sampling and short retention save money exactly where investigations need depth, so the gap shows up at the worst possible moment.

You don't close that gap by storing more data more cheaply. You close it by making the data usable, for analysts and for AI, at runtime.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is a security data lake?

A central, investigation-ready store for security telemetry, built for forensics rather than generic storage or short-retention alerting.

How is it different from a SIEM?

SIEMs are optimized for alerting and shorter retention. The Cloud Security Data Lake keeps normalized forensic depth across 1,000+ days, and you can send the contextualized 1 to 5 percent subset on to your SIEM to cut its cost.

Can it work with our existing Snowflake or SIEM data lake?

Yes. Keep your existing SIEM or Snowflake-based lake and use Mitiga to hunt and investigate across it, rather than forcing all logs into a vendor-owned environment.

Do we have to learn SQL to use it?

No. An MCP lets you query the lake in natural language. It knows to start at the aggregation and forensic-event layers and only go deeper when needed.

Who owns the data?

You can. With bring-your-own-bucket, Mitiga still does all the processing, but the data, stored as open-format files, lives in your bucket under your retention policy and your control.

How long is data retained?

Over 1,000 days of investigation-ready history, with longer cold-storage retention available for compliance at a fraction of the cost.

How is the data forensic-grade?

Logs are collected at full fidelity, then normalized, enriched, and contextualized, so investigators and AI work from a timeline-ready foundation rather than raw fragments.

See a Security Data Lake built for Agentic Runtime Security

Most lakes store data. Mitiga's makes data actionable: cross-domain detection, AI triage, attack timeline reconstruction, and fast containment across cloud, SaaS, identity, AI, and third-party services.

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