Elastic Security 8.6 helps security practitioners investigate and respond to threats quickly at cloud scale with SIEM, cloud security, and endpoint security. This release includes new data source integrations, expanded prebuilt detection content, and improved detection engineering and analyst workflows — bringing efficacy and efficiency to the modern security operations center (SOC).

Organizations need real-world protection from malware, but how do you know what you’ll get for security coverage in advance of purchasing a product? AV-Comparatives offers a comparison as an independent organization performing systematic testing that checks whether security software lives up to its promises. They create a real-world environment for accurate testing.

Elastic Security for SIEM continues to be recognized by leading industry analyst firms It’s that time of the year… and we’re not talking about the holidays. That’s right, it’s analyst report season. Elastic continues to be recognized by leading industry analyst firms. Today, Forrester Research recognized Elastic as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms, Q4 2022. Elastic had the highest score in the Wave in the strategy category.

Security vendors seem to have a complicated relationship with the MITRE ATT&CK(™) matrix. With one hand, they hold it high as a powerful resource, and with the other, they criticize some aspect of it. But regardless of your viewpoint on any given day, ATT&CK is one of the most important resources for improving your understanding of threat capabilities and aligning those to technical controls, countermeasures, or mitigations.

From on-demand healthcare services like telehealth to wearable technologies, predictive healthcare to blockchain technologies for electronic health records, or 5G for healthcare services to AI and augmented reality for state-of-the-art medical treatments, the healthcare industry is at an inflection point. These digital transformations also bring along elevated cybersecurity risks.

The first Elastic Global Threat Report was published earlier this week. In it, you will learn about trends observed by our threat researchers, our predictions for what’s coming next, and some of our recommendations to operate securely in the face of today’s and tomorrow’s threats. If you haven’t read it yet, go check it out. As a technical leader in Elastic Security, I'd like to reveal a small amount about what goes into reports like this one and why it’s significant.

I remember where I was sitting when I read Mandiant’s first M-Trends report on the advanced persistent threat in 2010. I was a technical director at the National Security Agency in the office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO). At that time, my job was to build computer network exploitation (CNE) tools to collect foreign intelligence.

Staying up-to-date on the current state of security and understanding the implications of today’s growing threat landscape is critical to my role as CISO at Elastic. Part of this includes closely following the latest security threat reports, highlighting trends, and offering valuable insights into methods bad actors use to compromise environments.

K-12 school districts in the U.S. are struggling with cybersecurity. According to an October 2022 GAO report, ransomware attacks have cost schools up to three weeks of missed learning. The GAO also noted that recovery can take as long as nine months. In January 2021, 3,000 K-12 public schools in the U.S. were victim to a large-scale worldwide cyberattack.

In this post, I want to scratch at the surface of a very interesting technology that Elastic’s Universal Profiler and Security solution both use called eBPF and explain why it is a critically important technology for modern observability. I’ll talk a little bit about how it works and how it can be used to create powerful monitoring solutions — and dream up ways eBPF could be used in the future for observability use cases.