When building applications that ingest and analyze millions of data points per second, developers as a rule require good observability data on workload performance. That principle certainly holds true for us on the Cloud SIEM team, where delivering a highly reliable and responsive product to our customers is central to our day-to-day operations.

When we think about privilege access management (PAM), we typically think about it first as preventive control. PAM solutions manage who has privileged access to systems, enforce least-privilege principles and monitor and record privileged user activity. This is crucial for preventing misuse of high-level permissions and ensuring accountability.

On a Friday afternoon at 5 PM, you’re cruising along the backroads in your car, listening to your favorite music. You’re on vacation and making excellent time to your destination until you notice the long stream of red tail lights a few miles ahead. After sitting in standstill traffic for over an hour, you realize that highway construction created a detour to the two-lane backroad that you were using to skip the rush hour traffic.

The “Three Pillars” (people, process, and technology) management framework requires a delicate balance in order to achieve successful operations outcomes. Despite the technology pillar dominating the conversation as of late, cybersecurity practitioners are the backbone of your organization's defense against cyber threats.

AI-driven security analytics reduces analyst burnout Most SIEM technologies in today’s market have not kept up with the pace of innovation and place a heavy burden on security analysts to perform manual, labor-intensive tasks in order to maintain defenses. Generative AI is helping security professionals address today’s dynamic threat landscape and prepare for future threats.

Deploying a next-gen cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) in your security operations center (SOC) is a big step in the right direction toward significantly improving your organization’s security capabilities. But once you have that state-of-the-art SIEM in your SOC, how do you get the most out of it? One key step is building and executing specific SIEM use cases designed to meet the particular needs of your organization.

Imagine you have a backpack with a granola bar buried at the bottom and a tenacious tiny dog who loves snacks. Even though the dog shouldn’t be able to reach that granola bar stored away carefully, it managed to open a zipper and snoop through the contents to eat the snack. From an IT environment standpoint, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the backpack carrying sensitive – but appealing to attackers – data.

Illuminate 5.1.0 is now available, bringing substantial improvements to our compliance capabilities. This update represents a significant step forward, with NIST 800-53 as the cornerstone of our compliance framework. Let’s explore the key features and improvements implemented to support your organization’s security and compliance needs. Important Note: To run Illuminate 5.1.0, your environment must run Graylog 6.0 or higher.

Elastic Security 8.15 is now available, enhancing our mission to modernize security operations with AI-driven security analytics. Key features include the brand new Automatic Import to streamline data ingestion and onboarding, support for Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro and Flash large language models (LLMs), a new set of APIs for the Elastic AI Assistant, on-demand file scans for the Elastic Defend integration, and a redesigned way of pivoting between different contexts.