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The Elastic InfoSec Threat Detection team is responsible for building, tuning, and maintaining the security detections used to protect all Elastic® systems. Internally, we call ourselves Customer Zero and we strive to always use the newest versions of our products. This blog details how we are building packages of detection rules that work together to create a high fidelity alert for strange user behavior.

Elastic Security 8.11 introduces pipe queries with Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL), an Elastic AI Assistant connector for AWS Bedrock, and data integrations for Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Wiz, and Palo Alto Prisma Cloud. Together, these enhancements deliver vital guidance and context to threat hunters and investigators. Elastic Security 8.11 is available now on Elastic Cloud — the only hosted Elasticsearch® offering to include all of the new features in this latest release.

On Monday, October 30, President Biden signed the Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence — the longest in history at 117 pages. The executive order (EO) aims to advance and regulate artificial intelligence (AI) in the US. This landmark order pulls together a number of priorities that influence not just the AI industry, but also society at large.

It’s that time of year again. Fall leaves are turning colors, families are gearing up for the holidays, and many vendors are releasing different reports during cybersecurity month. Our researchers at Elastic Security Labs released the 2023 Global Threat Report last week after months of analysis on more than 1 billion data points. As the CISO of Elastic, my team and I leveraged last year’s report findings and predictions to strategize for the changing threat landscape.

We are excited to announce the release of the 2023 Elastic Global Threat Report, a comprehensive analysis of over one billion data points. The report provides insights into the methods, techniques, and trends of threat actors from the perspective of defenders, helping customers, partners, and security teams to prioritize and improve their security posture. The observations in the report are based on anonymized Elastic telemetry and public and third-party data submitted voluntarily.

In the dynamic realm of governmental regulations, the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) in the EU emerges as a game-changer. Slated for a detailed rollout by early 2024, the buzz surrounding DORA has resonated within the information and communication technology (ICT) and financial sectors for quite some time, and its distinction lies in its holistic and authoritative approach. DORA is heralded as the high-water mark for cybersecurity regulations tailored for the financial arena. Its mission?

Elastic's cloud security solution recognized for comprehensive protection of cloud-based workloads We are excited to announce that Elastic® has been honored with the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Award 2023 for Cloud Security Platform of the Year. This award recognizes our open, unified solution with integrated cloud security capabilities that protect both cloud-native and hybrid workloads, enabling analysts to defend against cloud misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and runtime attacks.

In the dynamic realm of data processing, Amazon EMR takes center stage as an AWS-provided big data service, offering a cost-effective conduit for running Apache Spark and a plethora of other open-source applications. While the capabilities of EMR are impressive, the art of vigilant monitoring holds the key to unlocking its full potential. This blog post explains the pivotal role of monitoring Amazon EMR clusters, accentuating the transformative integration with Elastic®.

One of the security features available in Elasticsearch® Service (Elastic® Cloud) is traffic filtering. Traffic filtering enables network layer security by limiting access to the deployment from configured networks only. In addition to the security policies consisting of role based access control (RBAC) employing principle of least privilege, using traffic filtering in conjunction provides greater security.