Elastic includes SOAR in Elastic Security 8.4
Elastic revised its automation and feedback framework with Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR). The release of Elastic Security 8.4 should optimize data analysis through new integrations with the systems of Elastic's partners.
Security experts spend large amounts of time perfo... Read more
Elastic launches version 7.16, offers more integration with ServiceNow and AWS
Elastic makes version 7.16 of Elasticsearch available, focusing on an improved platform and integrations with ServiceNow and AWS.
The new version provides capabilities for streamlining processes for obtaining data from any source. These include Elasticsearch and Kibana, as well as the built-in s... Read more
Elastic acquires Swiss continuous profiling startup Optimyze to enhance observability tools
Elastic wants to create a complete set of observability capabilities to integrate into its enterprise search platform. The announcement comes after completing an acquisition of a startup named Optimyze. The startup focuses on continuous profiling.
Optimyze is a three-year-old startup based in Zu... Read more
Elastic acquires build.security to gain authorization policy management capabilities
Less than a year after it raised $6 million on seed funding, build.security is being acquired by Elastic. The Tel-Aviv and Sunnyvale-based startup did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. The deal will close in Elastic's second quarter (FY22), ending October 31, 2021.
Ash Kulkarni, chie... Read more
Amazon announces its own Elasticsearch fork
Amazon has announced that it will be working on its own open-source fork of Elasticsearch, called OpenSearch. The company is doing this after Elasticsearch itself abandoned its Apache licensing model.
Amazon informed us that they started a new search engine project called OpenSearch. Besides Ope... Read more
Elasticsearch 7.12 introduces runtime fields and ARM support
Elastic has announced version 7.12 of its Elasticsearch search engine. The update brings a number of improvements, including support for runtime fields, a new frozen tier for storage and support for the ARM architecture.
An overview of the new features can be found in a blog post from Elastic. T... Read more
Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes generally available
Elastic today announced general availability for Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, or ECK. This is a version of the popular Elastic data management toolkit specifically designed to run on the container orchestration framework Kubernetes.
Elastic is the developer of Elasticsearch, the open-source sear... Read more
Elasticsearch comes to Microsoft Azure
Elasticsearch will also be available on Microsoft Azure, thanks to the launch of a beta version. Later this year, the service should also be made publicly available.
According to Elastic itself, this means that organisations that have chosen Azure as their standard now have the opportunity to use th... Read more
Elastic expands cybersecurity portfolio with SIEM solution
Elastic has decided to continue to enter the cyber security market with the launch of a new product. The SIEM solution, used to detect threats in enterprise networks, will be part of the new version of Elastic Stack.
SIEM stands for Security Information and Event Management. The solution, Elastic S... Read more
Elastic focuses on endpoint security with acquisition of Endgame
Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, has signed a deal to acquire endpoint security company Endgame for 234 million dollars (207 million euros). The acquisition is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2019.
Endgame was founded in 2008, writes Silicon Angle. The company provides an... Read more