Security data infrastructure for cybersecurity products

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Mach5 helps cybersecurity companies build low-latency search, analytics, and streaming experiences without spending years building and operating the plumbing layer themselves.

Replace fragile search clusters, brittle pipelines, and expensive analytics infrastructure with production-ready security data infrastructure.

Mach5 infrastructure layer

Customer-facing product

Search
Dashboards
Timelines
Query serving
Tenant isolation
Cost controls

Mach5 owns the plumbing

Search + analytics
low-latency product queries
Streaming
ingest, transform, enrich
Derived data
fresh views and aggregates
Retention
long-window security queries
Kafka
S3
Cloud
Telemetry

Trusted by cybersecurity teams building demanding security data products

Permiso
Secureworks
Sophos
SailPoint
Zscaler

Outcomes

What changes when Mach5 owns the plumbing?

75%faster

Your teams ship faster

Faster time-to-market by moving painful security data workloads onto Mach5.

Infrastructure gets easier

Less custom glue. Fewer fragile pipelines. Fewer systems to babysit.

1/15thinfra costs

Margins improve

Benchmarked workloads use as little as 1/15th the infrastructure for high-volume security data.

Your product gets faster

Low-latency search and analytics become product capabilities, not infrastructure science projects.

Architecture gets cleaner

Search, analytics, streaming, and derived data workflows are handled by one purpose-built layer.

You stay in control

Run Mach5 fully in your environment, stay cloud-agnostic, and keep workloads portable across deployment targets.

Pain recognition

Security products are becoming data products.

Your customers expect fast search, fresh detections, reliable timelines, tenant-aware analytics, enrichment, dashboards, investigations, and retention.

That is not your product. That is the plumbing your product is stuck carrying.

Search clusters
Kafka consumers
Transformation pipelines
Materialized views
Tenant isolation
Reprocessing logic
Backfills
Deduplication
Cost controls
Query serving infrastructure

The hidden cost

The hidden cost is not just infrastructure spend. It is roadmap drag.

Delayed product launches

Your roadmap slows down because the data layer keeps becoming the project.

Engineering distraction

Senior engineers get pulled into index tuning, compaction, query performance, and pipeline reliability.

Gross margin pressure

As customer data grows, your infrastructure bill can grow faster than revenue.

Operational risk

Freshness delays, missed writes, duplicate processing, and slow queries become customer-facing issues.

Platform lock-in

The more custom glue you build around generic infrastructure, the harder it becomes to move.

Status quo

The usual answers solve pieces of the problem, not the whole security product workload.

Common answer

Elasticsearch / OpenSearch

Great starting point for search. Painful when cost, scale, retention, multi-tenancy, and operational burden grow.

Common answer

ClickHouse

Powerful analytics engine. But teams still assemble ingestion, serving, search behavior, freshness, tenant isolation, streaming, workflows, and product-facing APIs around it.

Common answer

Snowflake / Databricks

Excellent general-purpose data platforms. Security product teams need margin-efficient, low-latency, customer-facing analytics infrastructure — not just a place to run analytical queries.

Common answer

Custom pipelines

Flexible at first. Over time, they become a hidden platform your team has to maintain forever.

The reframe

The question is not ‘Can we build it?’

Of course your team can build it. The better question is: should your best engineers spend the next 12–24 months building undifferentiated search, streaming, freshness, and analytics infrastructure?

Your advantage is your detection logic, threat intelligence, workflow, product experience, and customer understanding. Not the plumbing layer.

Solution

Mach5 gives security product teams the data infrastructure layer they wish they did not have to build.

Low-latency search and analytics infrastructure

Build fast customer-facing security analytics experiences without operating fragile search infrastructure.

Threat huntingEvent searchInvestigation timelinesEntity viewsCustomer-facing dashboardsDetection result explorationMulti-tenant log analyticsLong-retention security data queries

Streaming infrastructure

Move from brittle custom pipelines to reliable, production-grade streaming and transformation infrastructure.

Ingest pipelinesTransformationsEnrichmentDerived tablesMaterialized viewsBackfillsExactly-once processingFreshness-sensitive security workflows

Proof

Built for real security product workloads.

Mach5 is used in production by cybersecurity companies building demanding customer-facing analytics products. Teams first come to Mach5 for one painful workload, then realize the plumbing problem is much bigger than one workload.

Start narrow

You do not need a platform migration to start.

Start with one workload your team wishes it did not own. Mach5 can start narrow, prove value, and expand only where it makes sense.

Bring us one painful workload
Our Elasticsearch bill is getting out of control.
Our customer-facing search is too slow.
Our ClickHouse setup works, but everything around it is custom.
Our Kafka pipelines are brittle.
Our engineering team is spending too much time on ingestion and backfills.
We need fresh derived data without building another Lambda maze.
We want to launch a new security analytics product faster.

Architecture

Purpose-built for security analytics infrastructure.

This is not a generic warehouse repackaged for security. It is infrastructure built for security products.

See the architecture
High-volume event streams
Tenant-aware workloads
Low-latency product queries
Long-retention analytics
Streaming transformations
Derived data and materialized views
Cost-sensitive infrastructure
Operational reliability

Stop building the plumbing. Build the security product.

Your customers do not care how many systems you operate behind the scenes. They care that the product is fast, fresh, reliable, and affordable.

Mach5 helps cybersecurity companies get there without turning their engineering team into a data infrastructure company.

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Resources

Read about security data infrastructure, search and analytics architecture, streaming pipelines, Elasticsearch migration, benchmarks, and customer proof.

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Apr 8, 2026

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10 Billion Rows, 1/15th the Infrastructure: How Mach5 Outperforms Trino, Starburst, and Snowflake

Vinayak Borkar

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May 26, 2026

Rebuilding an xz Backdoor Investigation on Mach5 Security Data Infrastructure

Mach5 team

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Apr 8, 2026

10 Billion Rows, 1/15th the Infrastructure: How Mach5 Outperforms Trino, Starburst, and Snowflake

Vinayak Borkar

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Mar 17, 2026

Document Views: Eliminating Write Amplification in Search

Vinayak Borkar

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