Elastic Security integration with Google Distributed Cloud: Closing the velocity gap in air-gapped environments

The rules of cyber defense have shifted. Threat actors are increasingly using advanced automation to accelerate reconnaissance, evade static signatures, and orchestrate rapid intrusions across critical infrastructure, software supply chains, and insider pathways.

This has created a critical velocity gap: when adversaries compress attack timelines from days to minutes and defenders rely on manual triage across fragmented legacy tools, the defense falls behind. To secure our most critical infrastructure, defense missions, and sovereign data, public sector organizations need unified, automated security operations purpose-built for the environments they protect.

The collaboration integrates proven security capabilities powered by Elastic Security and Google Cloud, providing unified protection, detection, investigation, and response across Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped environments, inclusive of:

• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) – Ingests, normalizes, and correlates high-volume infrastructure, network, and audit telemetry into a common schema to effectively detect threats across systems and data in an air-gapped environment. Defenders can leverage pre-built detection rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, behavioral analytics, and rapid investigative views from a single console.

• Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) – Provides active, kernel-level visibility and behavioral protection through a single unified agent to detect and stop advanced memory exploits, polymorphic malware, and lateral movement before execution. This is a key differentiator in reducing high resource overhead with numerous legacy agents in disconnected environments. 

• Threat Intelligence – Equips completely disconnected environments with curated frontline insights, indicators of compromise, and adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) developed by Mandiant experts to proactively hunt across the threat domain.

• SecOps Foundation – Delivers the operational foundation to build and scale security operations programs, including built-in case management, incident response plans, documentation, runbooks, and standard operating procedures paired with Mandiant service offerings to accelerate deployment.

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