Recognized for Innovative Use of the Elastic Stack to Detect and Analyze
Threats
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & AMSTERDAM (BUSINESS WIRE) Elastic N.V. (NYSE: ESTC), the company behind Elasticsearch and the
Elastic Stack, is pleased to recognize its customer, OmniSOC, has been
honored with a 2019 CSO50 Award from IDG’s CSO. This prestigious honor
is bestowed upon a select group of organizations that have demonstrated
that their security initiatives have created outstanding business value
and thought leadership.
Based at Indiana University, OmniSOC is the first higher education joint
cybersecurity operations center that brings together expertise and
resources from its founding five universities to reduce the time from
first awareness of a cybersecurity threat to mitigation. OmniSOC uses
the Elastic Stack as its security analytics platform, utilizing
Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash, and critical features like
security, alerting, and machine learning. The Elastic Stack ingests,
correlates, and analyzes vast quantities of information from thousands
of systems across all of its member institutions in order to detect
security breaches and cybersecurity threats. OmniSOC security engineers
then provide rapid, actionable intelligence back to its members so that
they can mitigate risks, close security gaps, and prevent future attacks.
“OmniSOC’s innovative use of the Elastic Stack to proactively hunt down
threats and malicious activity is a pioneering effort that will serve as
a model for security in higher education and beyond,” said Shay Banon,
founder and chief executive officer at Elastic. “We congratulate the
OmniSOC team for this well-deserved recognition from CSO.”
“Higher education faces a unique set of cybersecurity
challenges―securing hundreds of thousands of devices and tens of
thousands of students and faculty members in an economically efficient
way. The Elastic Stack gives us extremely fast access to the data we
need to protect our member universities,” said Tom Davis, OmniSOC
founding executive director and chief information security officer.
“We’re honored to be recognized by CSO for this innovative joint
cybersecurity initiative.”
“Amid the seemingly constant stream of news-making security breaches,
vulnerabilities introduced by new technologies and increased attention
from company boards, today’s security leaders have their plates more
than full,” said Amy Bennett, executive editor of CSO. “Our annual CSO50
awards shine a light on projects that enhance an organization’s security
posture and also deliver measurable ROI. We are pleased to give them the
recognition they deserve.”
About the CSO50 Awards
The CSO50 Awards recognizes 50 organizations for security projects and
initiatives that demonstrate outstanding business value and thought
leadership. The CSO50 Awards are scored according to a uniform set of
criteria by a panel of judges that includes security leaders and
industry experts. The 2019 awards will be presented at the CSO50
Conference + Awards, April 8-10, 2019, at the Talking Stick Resort,
Scottsdale, Arizona.
About Elastic
Elastic is a search company. As the creators of the Elastic Stack
(Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash), Elastic builds
self-managed and SaaS offerings that make data usable in real time and
at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases. Elastic
is a distributed company with Elasticians working in countries around
the world. Learn more at elastic.co .
Elastic and associated marks are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Elastic N.V. and its subsidiaries. All other company and
product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Contacts
Deborah Wiltshire
Elastic
press@elastic.co
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