Hey everyone, I’m pretty new to the security operations side of things (my background is in data pipelines and ETL), but I just went through a platform switch at my company and wanted to share my experience.
We moved from CrowdStrike to Trend Micro Vision One about 30 days ago. The main driver was cost, honestly—the finance team was pushing hard. I was nervous because I’ve only really heard about CrowdStrike being the “top tier,” and I didn’t want to mess up our detection.
So far, the cost savings are real, maybe 30% less? But I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed by the console. It feels...busier? Like there are so many modules and the way it surfaces alerts is different. I’m still figuring out how to prioritize things. With CrowdStrike, the alerts felt more straightforward to triage, but maybe that’s just because I was used to it.
I have a couple of basic questions for those who’ve used it longer:
- How do you handle custom detections? I saw the “Workbench” and it reminded me a bit of building data transformation logic, but for threats. Is it flexible?
- The integration part—we feed a lot of log data into BigQuery for analytics. Has anyone set up a pipeline from Vision One to BigQuery for alert enrichment? I’m thinking of using the APIs, but I’m not sure where to start.
Also, are there any “gotchas” I should watch out for in the next few months? I really don’t want to miss something because I configured a rule wrong. Any advice is appreciated!