Data Onboarding for MSSP on Google SecOps
ForshTec enabled an MSSP to scale Google SecOps by onboarding and normalizing diverse security telemetry, reducing noise and costs while improving SOC detection fidelity through enriched, UDM-aligned security data pipelines.
Case Details
Clients: Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP)
Tags: Google SecOps, Chronicle SIEM, MSSP Data Onboarding, Security Data Engineering, Log Normalization, Noise Reduction, SOC Optimization, SIEM Cost Optimization
Project Duration: 8 Month
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Customer Overview
A leading Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) serving mid-market and enterprise clients across North America partnered with ForshTec to accelerate its SOC platform strategy. The MSSP had chosen Google SecOps (Chronicle) as its core security data lake and SIEM, but faced challenges around data onboarding, normalization, and noise reduction across a diverse set of telemetry sources.
The customer wanted to deliver high-fidelity detection and response services without overwhelming their analysts or inflating their Chronicle ingestion costs.
Objectives
Key Data Sources Integrated
ForshTec Solution
ForshTec deployed a cross-functional engineering team to deliver a production-ready data onboarding and transformation pipeline:
Use Case & Field Mapping Discovery
- Identified critical detection use cases per telemetry source.
- Created field-level mappings to Chronicle UDM and enrichment standards
- Aligned ingestion plan with MSSPʼs existing threat models and SOC playbooks
Data Ingestion & Parsing
- Built ingestion connectors for each product via Chronicleʼs Ingestion API and forwarders
- Developed parsers and custom transformation logic for non-standard sourcesDeveloped parsers and custom transformation logic for non-standard sources
- Implemented log filtering rules to discard noise, keep high-value events (e.g., exclude benign DNS, retain file execution)
Event Filtering & Cost Control
- Designed filtering criteria based on event severity, asset criticality, and source reputation
- Helped MSSP reduce ingestion volume by 45% while retaining detection quality
- Enabled filtering at the edge before data hit the SIEM pipeline
Event Filtering & Cost Control
- Created reusable ingestion modules for new tenants and customer environments
- Integrated with MSSPʼs onboarding automation system to apply filters per customer profile
Business Impact
- Onboarded 20+ data sources into Google SecOps with clean, enriched, and normalized data
- Reduced ingestion noise by ~45%, directly lowering data volume and cost
- Improved SOC detection fidelity by focusing on actionable, context-rich events
- Delivered ingestion packs for multi-tenant scaling, accelerating new customer rollouts
- MSSP now delivers cleaner dashboards, faster alerts, and high-SNR investigations
Why ForshTec
ForshTec empowers MSSPs and security platform teams with engineering-first data onboarding and enrichment services. We help our partners move beyond raw ingestion—by delivering schema-aligned, cost-effective, and operationally relevant data pipelines across SIEM, SOAR, and XDR platforms.