Elastic expands its threat prevention capabilities to stop advanced threats at the endpoint

Elastic announced expanded Limitless Extended Detection and Response (XDR) capabilities across the Elastic Security solution in its 7.15 release, including new layers of prevention for Windows, macOS and Linux, and host isolation for cloud-native Linux… Continue reading Elastic expands its threat prevention capabilities to stop advanced threats at the endpoint

Elastic’s enhancements optimize search experiences for customers

Elastic announced enhancements across the Elastic Search Platform and its solutions. The general availability of the Elastic App Search web crawler in Elastic Enterprise Search enables users to ingest content directly from publicly accessible web sites… Continue reading Elastic’s enhancements optimize search experiences for customers

Elastic acquires Cmd to bring comprehensive cloud runtime security to customers

Elastic announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cmd to give customers deep visibility into cloud workloads and perform expert detection and prevention on cloud-native data. Together with Elastic’s recent announcement to acquire … Continue reading Elastic acquires Cmd to bring comprehensive cloud runtime security to customers

Elastic acquires build.security to enforce security actions for cloud native environments

Elastic announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire build.security, a policy definition and enforcement platform that leverages the open source standard Open Policy Agent (OPA), to enable organizations to enforce security actio… Continue reading Elastic acquires build.security to enforce security actions for cloud native environments

Elastic updates Elastic Stack and Elastic Cloud to make data onboarding and management more secure

Elastic announces new capabilities and updates to the Elastic Stack and Elastic Cloud to make data onboarding and management faster, simpler, and more secure. The general availability of Elastic Agent, centrally managed by Fleet, enables users and cust… Continue reading Elastic updates Elastic Stack and Elastic Cloud to make data onboarding and management more secure

Elastic enables deeper search experience insights with Kibana visualizations

Elastic announces a single management interface for Elastic Enterprise Search in Kibana, updated App Search precision tuning capabilities, and content source flexibility and synonym support for Workplace Search in the 7.14 release of Elastic Enterprise… Continue reading Elastic enables deeper search experience insights with Kibana visualizations

Adventures of Cyber Security Monitoring During 2018 U.S. Midterm Elections

With all the Russian election hacking scandals in the news during and after the 2016 Presidential election, curiosity consumed me to architect and run an experiment to see if I could monitor changes in the threat landscape in either Moscow, Russia or W… Continue reading Adventures of Cyber Security Monitoring During 2018 U.S. Midterm Elections