
Detecting privileged access activity: A new Kibana integration
Learn about the new Privileged Access Detection package, available in tech preview in Kibana. The integration includes ingest pipelines, transforms, ML jobs, and dedicated dashboards to help teams efficiently investigate suspicious privileged access.

Less noise, more signal: How Elastic Defend slashed event volume
In 8.18, Elastic Defend’s default configuration has been improved to lower how much event data is generated by up to 70%. In addition, process descendant event filters now give users a powerful new way to limit Elastic Defend’s data volume.






