In a landscape of increasing cyber threats, the development of a robust security intelligence platform is essential, and while traditional SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) systems provide foundational capabilities for detecting and managing threats, they face challenges such as delayed real-time analysis, scalability issues, high false positive rates, and limited flexibility. To address these challenges, the integration of real-time data stream processing into SIEM systems is proposed, leveraging Redpanda as a central platform for high-throughput, low-latency event ingestion and storage. This new architecture aims to enhance responsiveness, scalability, and cost-efficiency by using cloud-first storage and maintaining compatibility with existing Kafka ecosystems through Kafka Connect. By incorporating stream processors and machine learning pipelines, the platform can pre-process events to reduce false positives and enable real-time threat detection, while also facilitating long-term event retention for compliance and forensic analysis. This approach ultimately provides organizations with a more agile and effective cybersecurity defense mechanism, allowing for timely responses to threats while optimizing resources.