The text highlights the increasing concerns of data breaches and cyber attacks, noting that data breach costs reached an all-time high in 2022, with 83% of organizations experiencing multiple breaches. It discusses the challenges companies face in managing and securing large volumes of data, especially with sophisticated threats, and introduces Amazon Security Lake, a new purpose-built data lake for security-related data. This platform aggregates data from various sources, supports the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF), and aims to centralize security data management. Confluent complements this by offering features for data governance, scaling, and a connector ecosystem to efficiently ingest and process data into Amazon Security Lake. The text also explains how Confluent ensures data conformity to OCSF standards, and outlines steps for using Confluent's S3 sink connectors to send data to Amazon Security Lake. The text ends by mentioning BT Group's use of Confluent to create a real-time data streaming environment and references the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II's impact on financial reporting requirements.