Security teams have never had more tools or more data problems. SIEMs, data lakes, threat intelligence platforms, observability tools, compliance archives, and AI engines all promise better outcomes, but only if they receive the right data. Most organizations treat their pipeline as a simple transport layer. They collect everything from everywhere, forward it to multiple destinations, and rely on each system to make sense of what it receives.
The result is predictable: Costs rise, data is duplicated, investigations slow, and AI, automation, analytics, and compliance workflows suffer from noisy or incomplete inputs.
CrowdStrike Falcon® Onum transforms that pipeline from passive infrastructure into an intelligent control plane. It filters, enriches, shapes, and routes telemetry in motion so every system receives high-fidelity, security-ready data.
For security leaders, these capabilities should shift their priorities from collecting more data to controlling how data moves, what context it carries, and where it delivers the most value. The following five use cases reflect common customer challenges and practical ways Falcon Onum helps teams take back control.
Cut the Telemetry Tax
Modern environments generate staggering volumes of telemetry across endpoint, identity, network, cloud, SaaS, application, and infrastructure sources. The common approach is to ship everything into the SIEM “just in case.” Over time, ingestion costs balloon, storage grows, and search performance degrades. Analysts spend time digging through irrelevant events because data reduction happens after storage.
Falcon Onum changes that equation by enabling control upstream. Instead of treating data reduction as a downstream cleanup exercise, Falcon Onum shapes telemetry in motion. It drops repetitive health checks and known-benign noise, trims unnecessary fields before storage, and applies safe sampling and aggregation where appropriate. It also preserves high-value events and critical fields required for detection, investigation, and compliance.
Organizations can reduce unnecessary data volume before it reaches downstream systems, helping lower storage and processing overhead while preserving the visibility and investigative depth needed for security operations. One global telecom provider used Falcon Onum to turn high-volume network telemetry into real-time intelligence and faster operational response.
Accelerate SIEM Migrations Without Re-Plumbing Everything
SIEM migrations rarely fail because of missing features. They stall because of time, risk, and integration complexity.
Falcon Onum introduces a control layer between sources and destinations to reduce friction. With this in place, organizations can decouple data producers from data consumers. With Falcon Onum, customers using CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM and legacy solutions can run them in parallel without duplicating collection infrastructure. Data formats can be reshaped in motion without touching original source systems. Optimized streams can be delivered to analytics platforms while preserving full-fidelity feeds for detection. When storage tiers, retention strategies, or destinations change, source configurations remain intact.
As destinations evolve, the pipeline remains stable. This architectural flexibility reduces migration risk, shortens cutover timelines, and allows teams to modernize at their own pace while maintaining detection fidelity and investigative depth.