Yesterday, Elastic Security Labs released the 2024 Elastic Global Threat Report, a comprehensive look at more than 1 billion data points from Elastic’s unique telemetry. The report provides insights into the methods, techniques, and trends of threat actors from the perspective of defenders — giving crucial insights for security teams to prioritize and improve their security posture.

Elastic Security Labs discovers that threat actors are taking advantage of readily available abused security tools and misconfigured environments. Elastic Security Labs has released the 2024 Elastic Global Threat Report, surfacing the most pressing threats, trends, and recommendations to help keep organizations safe for the upcoming year. Threat actors are finding success from the use of offensive security tools (OSTs), a misconfiguration of cloud environments, and a growing emphasis on Credential Access.

In the world of security, every second counts. A shorter mean time to detect (MTTD) translates to less damage, increased customer trust, and a greater likelihood of securing cybersecurity support. An important factor in achieving this rapid response is the power of an intuitive and user-friendly interface.

Now that we’ve introduced Elastic Cloud encryption at rest and walked you through setting it up in AWS and Azure, it’s time to get you set up in Google Cloud. In this final blog of the series, we will explain how encryption at rest works with Google Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) and then show you how to apply a Google Cloud KMS key to an Elastic Cloud Hosted deployment for encrypting data and snapshots at rest.

In an era where cyber threats are constantly evolving, protecting your identity and data from unauthorized access is more critical than ever. That's why we're excited to bring you the enhanced multifactor authentication (MFA) for Elastic Cloud. This feature significantly strengthens the security of your Elastic Cloud user and deployment data by aligning with industry best practices. You can go to Elastic Cloud and complete your MFA setup today.

Elastic has been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide SIEM for Enterprise 2024 Vendor Assessment. Elastic Security modernizes threat detection, investigation, and response with AI-driven security analytics — the future of SIEM. It is the tool of choice for SOC teams because it eliminates blind spots, boosts practitioner productivity, and accelerates SecOps workflows.

A head-spinning series of acquisitions and mergers is transforming the security information and event management (SIEM) market. Behind this market shakeup is the ongoing technological shift from traditional, manually intensive SIEM solutions to AI-driven security analytics. Legacy systems — characterized by manual processes for log management, investigation, and response — no longer effectively address today’s fast-evolving cyber threats.

The “Three Pillars” (people, process, and technology) management framework requires a delicate balance in order to achieve successful operations outcomes. Despite the technology pillar dominating the conversation as of late, cybersecurity practitioners are the backbone of your organization's defense against cyber threats.

AI-driven security analytics reduces analyst burnout Most SIEM technologies in today’s market have not kept up with the pace of innovation and place a heavy burden on security analysts to perform manual, labor-intensive tasks in order to maintain defenses. Generative AI is helping security professionals address today’s dynamic threat landscape and prepare for future threats.

In the first blog in this series, we unpacked the foundational concepts of encryption at rest and introduced you to Elastic Cloud’s “bring your own key” (BYOK) feature, which allows you to do encryption at rest with encryption keys managed by the KMS service of your cloud provider. The second blog of this series dives into the technical nuances of implementing encryption at rest with AWS KMS keys.