Not a day goes by without you reading about companies that fall victim to cybercrime. Attacks mainly target network equipment and cloud infrastructure. However, malicious parties can also gain access to you through parties with which you are digitally connected, such as partners and suppliers. In this blog you can read more about how Elastic solutions help you improve your security by detecting threats earlier. This way you can respond faster and prevent damage.

A data breach or systems that fail due to ransomware or malware: a cyber attack has a significant impact on your business operations. In the annual Global Threat Report Elastic lists a few shocking developments:

• There are more and more ready-made open source tools available, making it relatively easy for newcomers to join in and launch attacks.
• Due to the barrier-lowering nature of this software, a sharp increase in ransomware as-a-service campaigns is visible, or cybercrime on demand.
• Hackers are increasingly able to circumvent security systems, partly because they know their vulnerabilities.

Attacks are more often aimed at endpoints: malicious code is installed on them. As a result (and due to the increasing pressure on the labor market), organizations are facing an increasing challenge. It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of all threats. It is also not easy to see what is happening in complex hybrid IT environments, with enormous amounts of data stored in all kinds of systems and in numerous locations.

Prevent, detect, respond

Smart technology helps to regain control of security based on the principle of prevent, detect and respond. You protect your people, applications and devices better if you do not always put out fires, but are able to prevent attacks. If you are affected, you need to be up and running again quickly. Elastic's central security platform fits perfectly with this philosophy, because it combines the following solutions:

1. With SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) you monitor your entire environment 24/7. The solution collects, combines and analyzes log data from your complete environment (from firewalls but also from IoT equipment and applications, for example) and recognizes and assesses anomalous patterns. No more blind spots, because every real threat comes to light. Read more about SIEM this blog.
2. Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR): detecting and resolving suspicious activity on laptops, desktops and mobile devices.
3. Cloud security: discovering vulnerabilities in your cloud security. These may arise because your security configuration is not optimal. By closing holes, you keep intruders out and your data in both cloud applications and containers remains protected.
4. Threat hunting: Data analysis and machine learning provide your experts with insights that reveal threats that traditional tools may miss. Your people can then assess this better because they know more about the context.

With all of these solutions, there is no limit to the amount of data Elastic can process. Another characteristic feature is the high speed. This creates maximum visibility. Thanks to a clear dashboard, you keep an overview. Built-in intelligence also limits the number of false positives, so you are not overwhelmed by alerts.

AI as a virtual assistant

Speaking of intelligence, generative AI not only helps you assess whether an anomalous pattern in log data indicates malware or not. Artificial intelligence can also identify root causes and be your virtual assistant, telling you how to fix a threat when there is no automated solution.

An additional advantage of Elastic technology is that it has its own knowledge center: the Elastic Security Labs. More than forty experts work there for whom security is their core business. In addition, Elastic's software is open source, which means there is an entire community that helps find solutions to threats.

Puur Data

Puur Data is an Elite partner of Elastic and can therefore advise you like no other about the possibilities of Elastic security for your organization. We can also take a lot of work off your hands with implementation and management.

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