Insights

A 72-hour rolling buffer covers less than 28% of the median attacker dwell time. Here's what forensic readiness actually looks like when the architecture supports the investigation — and how one team closed an incident in 24 minutes.

The rolling buffer deletes your most valuable evidence before you know you need it. The same storage budget that supports 72 hours can support a year of flagged traffic — if the retention decision is made by an index rather than a clock.

A targeted query against 2.1 TB reads 412 KB — 0.000019% of the total. The architecture behind Vantage Query: how the Query Analytics Tree navigates by elimination, why it is not a database, and why it scales to exabytes.