However, unlike legacy SIEM, Starlight supports varieties of data sources, especially with strong support for network traffic for NDR functions as well as many other detection functions like IDS and malware detection.
The data from different sources are normalized, and more importantly fused together to create contextual information about the users and assets (host names instead of IP addresses), location, time, commands, threats, vulnerabilities, etc. The contextual and actionable data accelerates investigation, threat hunting and forensics