In the past, vendors offered traditional SIEM systems as on-premises hardware or software deployments. As a result, security pros struggled to manage and update these systems and continually add storage for ever-increasing log volumes. In The Empire Strikes Back, Lando Calrissian tells Princess Leia, “You truly belong here with us among the clouds.” The same can be said of security analytics platforms. As enterprises have moved their own workloads to the cloud to take advantage of its scale, flexibility, and availability, security vendors have finally started to follow suit with cloud-based delivery of their security analytics solutions. This transition and the entry of cloud native vendors are indicative that security analytics belongs in the cloud.