Company security usually depends on your ability to come up with a diverse set of passwords and then manage them. Remembering all of them is considered a tad too difficult for most mere mortals, so a number of password storage apps have emerged. But they too have to be secured, and ultimately results in inefficient access and flawed security. Single-sign on (SSO) is still preferred, but to make it effective, companies like Okta have to secure integration across a number of apps.

In modern digital environments, logs are present everywhere. From networking devices, servers, and databases, to operating systems, cloud-based services, and applications, every component produces some form of digital records of events. These records or logs provide an audit trail for Security Information Event Management (SIEM) and help in performance monitoring of servers and applications.

Many mature security teams look to the MITRE ATT&CK® matrix to help improve their understanding of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and to better understand their own capabilities relative to these common adversarial approaches. With the release of Elastic Security 7.6, Elastic SIEM saw 92 detection rules for threat hunting and security analytics aligned to ATT&CK.

Security teams must protect attack surfaces that are becoming bigger and more distributed due to the growth of remote work, cloud infrastructure, and other dynamics. These teams understand that meeting this challenge at scale requires the successful incorporation of the appropriate technology into their security operations program.

Security information and event management, or SIEM, has become part of the vocabulary of every organization. SIEM solutions gather events from multiple systems and analyze them—both in real time and through historical data. SIEM costs—as cyber security costs in general—can be high, but there is a tradeoff if you opt for the FOSS route (free and open source solutions).

When China built an entire emergency hospital in a matter of days in Wuhan – a city about the size of NYC that most of us had never heard of – the world was watching with concern, but somehow still expected and hoped that the crisis would somehow remain contained to China, or at least Asia. People in Europe and the U.S.

The evolution of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) is deeply intertwined with cloud computing, both in terms of technological breakthroughs the cloud provided and from its inherent security challenges. With the rise of cloud computing, we no longer rely on long-lived resources. An ephemeral infrastructure obscures the identity of the components and, even if you do have the visibility it doesn’t necessarily mean you can comprehend the meaning behind the components.

With the release of Elastic Security 7.6, we've announced our creation of a modern detection engine that provides SOC teams with a unified SIEM rule experience through Elastic SIEM detections. The detection engine draws from a purpose-built set of Elasticsearch analytics engines and runs on a new distributed execution platform in Kibana.

Today’s businesses spend more money on SaaS tools than on laptops. On average, today’s employees use a minimum of eight different SaaS tools. The security implications of this robust cloud landscape cannot be neglected and we trust you are fully aware of it already. As an IT leader, you are responsible for keeping your company’s cloud infrastructure secure, but with the multitude of cloud apps businesses use on a daily basis, you have less and less control of that security landscape.