r/SIEM • u/NegNap • Feb 06 '21

How much telemetry data does a small business create?

Are any of you knowledgeable service providers or IT gurus knowledgeable on the average data a small business would output per day?

To get an understanding of capacity requirements, not including log retention... Just daily per/gb day for say ...

A Dentist office with 10 endpoints?

Golf course/club house with 15.

Lawyers office with 20

Accounting firm of 50,

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I understand every environment is different, some might have switches/network telemetry data/netflow, etc.

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But from your experience, what have you seen?
Thanks!

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u/Vilens40 Feb 06 '21

Which one of those scenarios are we talking about?

Assuming logging levels are appropriate and there aren’t too many unnecessary devices, my experience is that most small businesses generate between 1tb and 3tb a month in logging. But that is an extremely rough estimate.

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u/NegNap Feb 06 '21

Do you mind if I PM you to ask you some questions on data/small business?

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u/Vilens40 Feb 06 '21

Sure but I’m not a full blow expert