CrowdStrike Expands Federal SOC Modernization Through CISA-Funded SIEMaaS

CISA has called SIEM-as-a-service (SIEMaaS) “the Rosetta Stone” for visibility for good reason. Federal defenders need to see what is happening across increasingly complex environments, understand what matters, and turn that context into action before an adversary achieves its objective. 

CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM is now part of CISA’s SIEMaaS technology stack, which gives eligible agencies a fully funded path to modernize security operations through the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Dynamic and Evolving Federal Enterprise Network Defense (DEFEND) Group F shared service. Participating agencies can now deploy Falcon Next-Gen SIEM and extend existing CrowdStrike endpoint detection and response (EDR) investments into agency-wide security operations without using their own program funding.

This offering is available to CDM agencies that participate in CISA’s Persistent Access Capability program and already use CrowdStrike for EDR. Through the DEFEND F mechanism, Falcon Next-Gen SIEM SKUs are acquired on behalf of participating agencies.

For those agencies, Falcon Next-Gen SIEM can serve as the agency-wide SIEM to help teams unify security data, reduce operational complexity, and detect, investigate, prioritize, and respond to threats faster.

Turn Visibility into Action

Visibility alone is not the outcome. Federal security teams need context to distinguish signals from noise, understand malicious activity across their environment, and stay ahead of adversaries.

Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, delivered through the FedRAMP High-authorized CrowdStrike Falcon® platform in GovCloud, creates a unified security data layer across CrowdStrike and third-party telemetry. It brings together endpoint, identity, cloud, network, edge, and other security data while applying CrowdStrike threat intelligence, AI-powered analytics, and adversary-driven detections.

Falcon Platform Indicators of Attack (IOAs) extend CrowdStrike-managed behavioral detections across Falcon and third-party telemetry to help agencies identify emerging adversary behavior while reducing the burden of continually creating and maintaining detection logic.

Reduce the Cost and Burden of SOC Modernization

Federal CISOs face a difficult equation: Adversaries are moving faster while security teams contend with growing data volumes, siloed tools, limited resources, and legacy architectures.

The average eCrime breakout time was only 29 minutes in 2025, according to the CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report, and AI-powered adversaries continue to accelerate. This makes machine-speed investigation essential. Falcon Next-Gen SIEM helps agencies meet that challenge by unifying security data and adversary intelligence, accelerating investigation, and giving defenders the context to act before an adversary achieves its goal.

For agencies already running CrowdStrike EDR modules, DEFEND F SIEMaaS provides a funded path to extend the security foundation already in place into broader SOC modernization. Falcon Next-Gen SIEM helps agencies gain the visibility, context, and speed to turn security data into action. Its capabilities include: 

• Modernizing the SOC without using agency program funding: Falcon Next-Gen SIEM SKUs are acquired on behalf of participating agencies through DEFEND F SIEMaaS.
• Reducing SIEM cost and complexity: Retain security data for months or years at up to 80% less cost than legacy SIEMs through an index-free architecture.
• Putting adversary intelligence into action: Apply CrowdStrike threat intelligence and platform IOAs across first- and third-party security data.
• Accelerating investigations: Correlate activity across security domains and reduce time spent moving between tools and manually reconstructing attacks.
• Increasing analyst capacity: CrowdStrike AI capabilities automate repetitive SOC work while preserving analyst control. Teams can use natural language to surface context and intelligence, direct workflows, and accelerate investigations through Response Agent guidance trained on CrowdStrike Falcon® Complete managed detection and response (MDR) expertise. Documented customer outcomes include 3x faster mean time to respond and 70% less manual work.
• Building on existing EDR investments: Extend CrowdStrike capabilities already deployed into broader, more integrated security operations.

Availability

Falcon Next-Gen SIEM is available through CGI Federal’s CDM DEFEND F SIEMaaS shared service to eligible federal civilian agencies that use CrowdStrike EDR modules and participate in CISA’s CDM Persistent Access Capability program.

Through the DEFEND F mechanism, Falcon Next-Gen SIEM SKUs are acquired on behalf of participating agencies, allowing eligible agencies to access the capability without using their own program funding.

Contact your CrowdStrike Federal Account Team today to learn how your agency can access Falcon Next-Gen SIEM through CDM and schedule a tailored engagement.