If you’re a public sector organization, security is top of mind. One of the best ways you can secure your data and systems is through a modern SIEM platform, which many government agencies and education institutions are using as a critical piece of their Zero Trust cybersecurity architecture. SIEM technology and strategy is constantly changing, and keeping up with the latest updates and requirements can be challenging.

The Elastic Security Labs team is passionate about securing the world’s data from attack, and strives to raise the bar within the security industry. To this end, Elastic Security Labs has compiled the 2022 Global Threat Report to share trends and tactics adversaries and attack groups use, as observed by our threat research team and broader user community over the past year. Let’s dig into a few of the endpoint related findings.

Elastic has successfully delivered a leading Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) offering with only two years in the market. According to IDC Worldwide Security Information and Event Management Market Shares, 2021: The Cardinal SIEMs report, Elastic is one of the fastest growing SIEMs (more than 80% year-over-year growth) — and had the fifth largest market share in 2021 of the 20+ SIEM vendors in the report.

We are excited to announce that Elastic has been honored with the 2022 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Award for Threat Intelligence Platform of the Year, recognizing the cutting-edge threat intelligence capabilities of Elastic Security, which enable organizations to better understand current and emerging threats and respond more quickly to adversaries.

Elastic continues to provide customers the ability to modernize their security operations programs. Today’s launch celebrates several initiatives that together equip customers to modernize security operations, including.

Global survey shows cybersecurity was the top business priority for organizations that use tools that enable the search of data across multiple sources It’s time to re-evaluate how we define the term “search.” Today, search has far broader applications than those of a standard search engine query. That’s especially true when it comes to cybersecurity.

The whole point of IT systems, whether deployed via traditional methods or via modern practices (such as Agile methodologies, DevSecOps, and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes) is to make data available for business operations — whether those operations are making business decisions, identifying or troubleshooting system performance and efficiency issues, detecting bad actors, or protecting organizational assets.

Cloud-based SIEM, long a forward-looking topic, is here and now. In fact, advanced organizations will spend 27% more on cloud cybersecurity as a percentage of IT spending in 2022 vs. 2021 as they expand their use of cloud providers, services, and integrations with other technologies. There are a myriad of benefits to conducting security operations on a cloud-based platform.

The insurance industry's business model is rapidly evolving as the latest consumer and business technologies deliver greater quantities of real-time data than ever before. McKinsey predicts that by 2030, processes like underwriting as we know it will cease to exist — machine and deep learning models will automate policies and reduce delivery time to seconds.

For decades, the cybersecurity industry has been shrouded in secrecy. This is partly because of the misunderstanding that cybersecurity often relies on obscurity as its primary form of defense. As the thinking goes, if adversaries don’t know about or understand the security controls that security vendors have in place, it will be easier to defend against cyberattacks.