Security teams are drowning in data management. While collecting the growing volumes of data from all sources is a struggle in itself, storing it is an even bigger problem to solve. And in today’s enterprise environment, data is everywhere; to the point that many organizations don’t know what to do with it. The burden of storing, managing, and making sense of it has drastically increased. And security teams are often forced to make a choice: overspend for real-time systems that house only slices of data or route the majority of it to low-cost storage that is practically inaccessible.  

With LakeVilla, you don’t have to make that compromise.

When it comes to data, you shouldn’t have to compromise between cost and performance. LakeVilla is designed to give you a reliable, cost-effective way to store and access historical data without the high price tag or slow performance of traditional SIEM solutions. It makes cold storage actually work for security teams—no more painful rehydration and no more expensive re-ingestion.  
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Extract Security, Store Data

Roughly only 10-15% of security telemetry drives detection and real-time analytics. This means you don’t need to overflow your real-time systems with everything. While the remaining 85-90% is important for investigations, compliance, and traceability, and needs to be stored for longer durations. Despite this, most architectures send all of your data (including the things you don’t need) through the same high-cost pipelines, resulting in you paying unnecessary expenses and operational overhead.  

One of the most important aspects of a proper data strategy is recognizing that not all data is equal in urgency or value. LakeVilla embodies this principle by giving organizations the capability to easily and clearly separate real-time and forensic data paths.

How? Relevant security data goes to the analytics engine. Everything else goes into LakeVilla’s cost-effective, searchable, and immediately available storage - without rehydration, reprocessing, or secondary tooling!

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What is LakeVilla?

LakeVilla is Abstract’s cloud-native cold storage solution, purpose-built for security data and deeply integrated into the Abstract Security platform. Unlike traditional archive solutions that bury logs in inaccessible storage, Lake Villa keeps your data instantly searchable and seamlessly connected to your detection workflows.  

It eliminates rehydration delays, avoids expensive re-ingestion, and removes extra hidden costs at retrieval. That means you can scale retention, meet compliance, and conduct deep investigations—all while maintaining performance, reducing storage costs, and simplifying your security stack.

One Platform: Unified and Modular Architecture

LakeVilla isn’t an external archive or add-on utility. It is a native component of the Abstract Security Platform. This integration eliminates the need for redundant ingestion paths, parallel systems, or additional operational burden. Data sources only need to be onboarded once and are immediately usable across the entire platform.  

Here’s what you get, out of the box:

• Fully Searchable Cold Storage
  Retain long-term telemetry in a low-cost storage tier without sacrificing accessibility—no rehydration, re-ingestion, or external query layers required.
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• Seamless Integration with Live Pipelines
  LakeVilla is embedded directly into Abstract’s data pipeline architecture, enabling instant access to historical data without operational handoffs or tooling sprawl.
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• Replay for Forensics and Detection Enhancement
  ‍Historical data can be replayed through detection workflows on demand, supporting investigations, rule tuning, and retrospective threat identification.
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• Cost-Efficient Retention at Scale
  Store years of security data at a fraction of traditional SIEM or hot storage costs, enabling compliance and threat hunting without budget constraints.

By combining these capabilities into one platform, LakeVilla dramatically simplifies onboarding, eliminates maintenance overhead, and gives security teams a unified environment that works together by design, not by patchwork.

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Why LakeVilla?

To recap, LakeVilla changes the game by giving you one flexible solution: keep your long-term data live and useful without the usual trade-offs of cost, speed, or complexity. Here’s how it’s different from traditional storage solutions:

1. Store More, Pay Less

Filter out noise at the source, aggregate repetitive events, and enrich telemetry with context before it ever hits your SIEM or cold storage. By shaping the data in motion, you dramatically reduce volume and eliminate unnecessary storage spend. Then, route that refined data directly into LakeVilla for long-term, low-cost retention that’s still instantly accessible when you need it. It’s smarter storage with cost savings. This means you’re storing smarter in a cost-effective manner, without losing full visibility.  

• Cut noisy events at the source
• Route only high touch data to SIEM or other analytic platforms  
• Route long-term storage data directly to LakeVilla for cost-efficient cold storage
  

2. Searchable Cold Storage (No Rehydration Required)

Traditional cold storage solutions create complexity and a long checkbox of actions to complete before you can actually leverage the data you’re storing.  

You archive logs to save on cost, but accessing them later requires expensive rehydration and, many times, manual retrieval workflows. Many storage solutions offer cheap storage costs but charge extra for querying and retrieving stored data. With LakeVilla, data is shaped and normalized before storage, making it ready for fast retrieval and response without any rehydration or hidden costs.  

• Cold logs are query-ready instantly  
• No rehydration process  
• No hidden API fees or retrieval penalties  

This means your data remains useful and accessible for:  

• Incident response that needs to look back months, not just minutes
• Audit trails for compliance and reporting
• Threat investigations that unfold over longer timelines
• No more waiting. No more “fetch-and-hope” workflows

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3. Adapts in Real-Time

LakeVilla supports seamless routing of enriched, filtered data into cloud object storage solutions like AWS S3, Azure Blob, and Google Cloud Storage. With a simple drag-and-drop interface, you can route data based on content, severity, or compliance needs - no manual rewrites or complex scripts required. It’s flexible routing that keeps up with your environment as it evolves and helps you avoid vendor lock-ins.

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4. Built for Security, Not Just Storage

Leveraging the Abstract Security Platform’s pipeline module, LakeVilla prepares data before it even reaches storage. This means data is aggregated, normalized, schema-aligned, threat-enriched, and usable in-stream; ready for faster access the moment you need it.  

• Pre-storage processing: Aggregates, normalizes, and enriches data before it hits cold storage.  
• Schema alignment: Ensures data is structured and query-ready before it is stored.  
• No vendor lock in: Keeps your data portable - no vendor lock-in.  

Whether you're responding to an incident, fulfilling a compliance request, or conducting a deep investigation, your data is always ready.
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Why have a Lake House when you can have a Lake Villa!

LakeVilla isn’t just a cold storage solution, it’s a smarter way to retain and use your security data. From filtering out noise at the source to storing at scale, LakeVilla ensures your security data remains usable, searchable, and under your control. No rehydration, no hidden fees, no lock-in.  

Whether you’re optimizing SIEM costs or future-proofing your detection and compliance strategy, LakeVilla gives you more than storage. It gives you leverage.    

Store smarter. Search faster. Stay in control.  

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