Elastic Launches Elastic Security for Cloud
June 07 2022 - 8:53AM
Business Wire
Unifying cloud observability and security in a
single platform to expand visibility and protection of cloud-native
environments for deployment risks and runtime threats
- Automating the identification of cloud threats and enabling
analysts to accelerate their investigation and response workflows
through new cloud workload protection platform (CWPP)
capabilities
- Enabling organizations to enforce their cloud security posture
with Kubernetes security posture management (KSPM) and aligning
deployments with security benchmarks such as Center for Internet
Security (CIS) controls.
- Eliminating the overhead of deploying, managing, and
integrating disparate security operations, monitoring, and
compliance tools
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) (“Elastic”), the company behind
Elasticsearch, today announced the launch of Elastic Security for
Cloud featuring new capabilities for cloud risk and posture
management, and cloud workload protection.
Elastic Security for Cloud expands the capabilities of Elastic
Security by bringing together the ability to enforce security
posture for cloud-native and hybrid environments with
infrastructure detection and response (IDR) to give customers deep
visibility into cloud workloads and perform expert prevention,
detection and response. Customers can monitor for deployment time
risks and run-time threats in the unified Elastic Search
Platform.
Elastic Security also delivers out-of-the-box rules and machine
learning models to identify known and unknown threats with insights
derived from Elastic Security Labs, the company’s threat research,
malware analysis, and detection engineering team.
Providing a unified view across cloud-native and hybrid
environments
According to Gartner®[1], over 85% of organizations will move to
a cloud-first model with 95% of new digital workloads deployed on
cloud-native platforms by 2025. However, a recent study by Elastic
found that nearly half (49%) of organizations adopting cloud-native
technologies anticipate that misconfigurations will increase as a
root cause of breaches over the next two years.
“While cloud security is key to business, it introduces more
dependencies on various internal and third-party elements and
increases complexity. The result is an environment with fragmented
visibility, and you can’t secure what you can’t see. Such an
environment can be difficult to secure, since many elements need to
come together cohesively,” said Ken Buckler, Research Analyst -
Security and Risk Management, Enterprise Management Associates.
“Elastic aims to reduce this complexity and improve attack surface
visibility by delivering Elastic Security for Cloud on a single
platform that enables customers to secure their cloud risks while
integrating it within their broader security operations.”
Key capabilities of Elastic Security for Cloud include:
- Integrating cloud security into a unified platform for endpoint
security, cloud security, SIEM, and XDR to deliver broad visibility
and security while eliminating the overhead of deploying, managing,
and integrating disparate security operations, monitoring, and
compliance tools.
- Securing cloud workloads and cloud native applications with a
lightweight agent powered by eBPF technology to automate the
identification of cloud threats with out-of-the-box detection rules
and machine learning (ML) models.
- Enabling analysts to accelerate workflows with integrated case
management, built-in response actions, and native integrations with
security orchestration platforms.
- Accelerating the investigation experience for cloud-native and
hybrid workloads across multiple clouds through a unified alert
management console. The console features a terminal-like experience
providing rich visibility and context into commands executed in
cloud workloads, coupled with runtime intelligence integrations, OS
and infrastructure analytics powered by osquery, and automation and
integrations with IT and security orchestration platforms.
- Enabling organizations to enforce cloud security posture for
their Kubernetes deployments and aligning deployments with security
benchmarks such as CIS controls. With this new capability,
customers can identify misconfigurations and insecure
configurations in their Kubernetes deployments and gain near
real-time visibility into their cloud risk.
For more information read the Elastic blog about Elastic
Security for Cloud or visit Elastic at RSAC 2022 booth #5563.
Supporting Quotes:
- “We have been using Elastic for security analytics for years as
a cost-effective and flexible way to secure our enterprise,” said
Wes Connell, Cyber Defense Platform Lead, Uber. “We've
migrated more of our workloads to the cloud over the years so
expanding our visibility into those providers is a top priority.
The ability to monitor and secure an entire cloud inventory of
assets, scale dynamically to deliver best-in-class customer
experiences, and reduce risk without increasing the operational
burden of multiple solutions is a game-changer for the security
industry.”
- “One of the big benefits of Elastic Security is that they are
constantly innovating to provide truly connected visibility, better
detection and response capabilities, and comprehensive protection
across our large and diverse environment,” said Andrew Stokes,
Information Security Officer, Texas A&M Engineering.
“Bringing CWPP and KSPM capabilities into Elastic’s single, unified
platform helps automate the identification of cloud threats while
reducing tool sprawl and streamlining security operations.”
- “To protect applications and workloads in the cloud, security
operations teams require deep visibility across their
organizations’ underlying infrastructure and application data,”
said Santosh Krishnan, General Manager of Elastic Security,
Elastic. “Elastic Security for Cloud provides customers with
a single platform to monitor their cloud deployments, manage their
cloud posture, and secure their cloud workloads - giving them the
visibility they need to prevent, detect, and respond to threats
faster.”
[1]Gartner Press Release, “Gartner Says Cloud Will Be the
Centerpiece of New Digital Experiences,” November 10, 2021.
About Elastic:
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) is a leading platform for search-powered
solutions. We help organizations, their employees, and their
customers accelerate the results that matter. With solutions in
Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security, we enhance customer
and employee search experiences, keep mission-critical applications
running smoothly, and protect against cyber threats. Delivered
wherever data lives, in one cloud, across multiple clouds, or
on-premise, Elastic enables 18,000+ customers and more than half of
the Fortune 500, to achieve new levels of success at scale and on a
single platform. Learn more at elastic.co
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