SIEM Tools for Indian SOC Teams

What a SIEM does — and why detection engineering matters more than the platform.

A Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system collects, normalises, and correlates log data from across an organisation's technology environment — endpoints, servers, firewalls, cloud services, applications — and applies detection rules to identify patterns that indicate security threats. Every mature SOC operates a SIEM as its core detection platform. In India, SIEM logging is not just a best practice: CERT-In Directions 2022 mandate that all ICT system logs be retained for a minimum of 180 days within India, and that logs from covered incident types be available for immediate inspection upon request.

The most common failure in Indian SIEM deployments is not the platform selection — it is the absence of detection engineering. A SIEM without tuned detection rules is an expensive log repository. The tools on this page are built to address that gap: a library of 50+ pre-built detection use cases with queries in both Splunk SPL and Microsoft Sentinel KQL, a translator for converting queries between platforms, a coverage matrix to identify which MITRE ATT&CK techniques have no detection, and a compliance checker to verify that mandatory detection categories under CERT-In and ISO 27001 are covered.

For Indian organisations, SIEM detection priorities are shaped by the specific APT groups that actively target this geography. Sidewinder (targeting Indian government and military), APT36 (targeting Indian defence personnel), and Lazarus Group (targeting Indian financial institutions and cryptocurrency exchanges) all use techniques that generic global threat feeds underweight relative to their actual frequency in Indian environments. The use case library on this platform includes specific detections for these actors alongside standard MITRE ATT&CK coverage.

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