Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Since its inception, Elastic Security has had a clear mission: to protect the world's data and systems from attack. We started with SIEM, built on top of the Elastic Stack, applying its fast and scalable search capabilities to detect security vulnerabilities across all threat vectors. Next, we joined forces with Endgame to integrate endpoint security into Elastic Security, and allow customers to prevent, detect, and respond to attacks from a single, unified platform.

According to Research and Markets, the worldwide digital forensics market will expand at a compound annual growth rate of 13% through 2026. The rise of cybercrime is most certainly driving its growth — especially since digital forensics plays a critical role in mitigating cyberthreats in the modern security operations center (SOC).

Traditional and typical cyber security techniques usually fail to meet the security requirements of today’s corporate industries and businesses. As the digital world has revolutionized, so are cyber security threats and risks. It has become more difficult to rely on a single security solution or a single line of defence.

Privilege escalation is the exploitation of a programming error, vulnerability, design flaw, configuration oversight or access control in an operating system or application to gain unauthorized access to resources that are usually restricted from the application or user. This results in the application or user having more privileges than intended by the developer or system administrator, allowing attackers to gain access to sensitive data, install malware and launch other cyber attacks.

Threat modeling is increasing in importance as a way to plan security in advance. Instead of merely reacting to threats and incidents, an organization can identify and evaluate its security posture, relevant threats, and gaps in defenses that may allow attacks to succeed. Threat modeling has a two-way relationship with incident response.

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. In this edition, we explore one of the evolving privacy-enhancing techniques called differential privacy and how it’s being leveraged by organizations to safeguard sensitive data from being exposed. Cutting-edge technologies based on artificial intelligence and machine learning have been gaining traction in recent years.

Manufacturing facilities employ assembly lines, material handling systems, motors, and furnaces that all require big physical machines. Innovative trends in the manufacturing industry and the advancement of operational technology have also meant introducing computers across operation and production systems.

August has been a great month for Teleport. Our Series B round of funding , led by Kleiner Perkins, plus the arrival of secure MongoDB access with Teleport 7.0 is cause enough for celebration. In addition, Teleport has been officially Certified™ by Great Place to Work ®. This prestigious certification is based entirely on feedback from current employees; this year, an incredible 100% of our team members told us we are a great place to work.