Ensuring a seamless customer experience is a growing challenge for digital technology providers. Yet, as functionality and a customer base scale, predictability can become challenging. At Smarter City Solutions, which provides tens of thousands of drivers in Australia and New Zealand real-time parking related services through the flagship Smarter Parking Platform, our engineering team faced this challenge when scaling from a few deployments to dozens. Whether it was a scaling issue in infr
Secure your deployments on Elastic Cloud with Google Cloud Private Service Connect We are pleased to announce the general availability of the Google Cloud Private Service Connect integration with Elastic Cloud. Elastic Cloud VPC connectivity is now available to all customers across all subscription tiers and cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud). Private Service Connect allows you to create private and secure connections from your clients running in your Google Cl
The Elastic Infosec Detections and Analytics team is responsible for building, tuning, and maintaining the security detections used to protect all Elastic systems. Within Elastic we call ourselves Customer Zero and we strive to always use the newest versions of our products. In this series of blog posts we will provide an overview of our architecture, what data we send to our clusters, how and why we use Cross Cluster Search with the Security and Machine Learning (ML) applications, and h
A modified version of this blog post appeared in the August 2021 issue of Signal magazine. As the Industrial Age Army transforms to the Information Age Army, Army leadership recognizes the need for adaptable technologies that enable data exchange at the tactical edge. Not only must these technologies be in lock step with the 8 guiding principles of the DoD Data Strategy, but they must also deliver on the Army’s data imperatives of speed, scale and resilience. At Elastic, our role is to help comm
Version 7.14.1 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. The 7.14.1 patch contains fixes and small enhancements for the stack. One notable change in Elasticsearch fixes a memory leak that may have affected CCR users: Fix memory/breaker leaks for outbound responses #76474 For a full list of changes for each product, please refer to the release notes: 7.14.1 Release Notes Elastic Stack
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According to FBI Director, Christopher Wray, when it comes to ransomware disruption and prevention, “...there’s a shared responsibility, not just across government agencies but across the private sector and even the average American.” At Elastic, we’re here to help state and local governments. Ransomware attacks cost the U.S. government more than $18.9 billion in 2020 alone. By taking a proactive security approach, state and local IT teams can make damage from ransomware a thing of the pas
Elastic on Elastic The Elastic Infosec Detections and Analytics team is responsible for building, tuning, and maintaining the security detections used to protect all Elastic systems. Within Elastic we call ourselves Customer Zero and we strive to always use the newest versions of our products. In this series of blog posts we will provide an overview of our architecture, what data we send to our clusters, how and why we use Cross Cluster Search (CCS) with the Security and Machine Learn
We are excited to announce that Elastic is joining forces with Cmd to accelerate our efforts in Cloud security - specifically in cloud workload runtime security. By integrating the capabilities of Cmd's expertise and product into Elastic Security, we will enable customers to detect, prevent, and respond to attacks on their cloud workloads. Adding to our recent announcement to acquire build.security, this will give customers cloud security protections from build-time, to deployment-time, to runti
As an Elastic Technical Account Manager (TAM), I’m a trusted advisor who provides the necessary technical lens to help solve key business problems and drive customers towards strategic outcomes by helping teams make the most of their investments in Elastic technologies. In this series, you will hear firsthand the insights into some of the many ways we help our customers achieve success.
Asjad Athick, Elastic Technical Account Manager (TAM) For customers looking to monitor and observe thei
On August 21, 2021, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released an urgent notice related to the exploitation of ProxyShell vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-31207, CVE-2021-34473, CVE-2021-34523). By chaining these vulnerabilities together, threat actors are compromising unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers and gaining footholds into enterprise networks. Security vendors and researchers are also observing these attacks tied to post-exploitation behavior such as deploying r