ElasticON Public Sector: Federal

General Manager of Elastic Security Solutions Nate Fick explains how Elastic is helping mission-oriented organizations stay agile by allowing users to do more with their data — more affordably and faster than ever before.

The first technical talk of the event will highlight the latest releases at Elastic with specific insight into how those changes impact public sector projects. See the inside view of the most important capabilities and hear predictions on the developments that will be most applicable in our industry.

Elastic Security, leveraging the expertise of the makers of Elasticsearch coupled with the subject matter experts of the security domain, brings enterprise-grade SIEM and response to all users. With Elastic Security and the Elastic Agent, users can search, see, and stop threats, adding the critical “act” step in the OODA loop cycle. Learn how to take control of your environment and see what Elastic Security has in store next.

It has now been four years since the beta release of Elastic Cloud Enterprise which kicked off a wave of the Elastic public sector community running Elastic as a service within Government rather than utilizing purely hosted solutions. Fast forward to 2021 and we have multiple options for multiple mission needs. Learn top tips from Elastic architects and their experience enabling their teams with the automation and provisioning of Elastic tech to change the game in how government delivers solutions.

Learn how Deloitte is integrating machine learning with native Elasticsearch functionality to help a large federal agency expedite document review for a variety of eDiscovery use cases. This talk will focus on integrating machine learning (ML)/natural language processing (NLP) into ingest pipelines to add metadata to an index and how Deloitte uses Elasticsearch queries to dynamically sort documents based on an iterative user feedback loop.

See how Elastic and ECS support the Mission Assurance Decision Support System (MADSS) program for the Navy with observability, data enrichment, and powerful search in a containerized environment. By correlating data from diverse sources using web-based services and secure, automated data transformation services, MADSS improves responsiveness, predictions, and event analysis for critical network and infrastructure outages.

Elastic’s Mike Nichols and John Harmon will facilitate a conversation including product and mission perspectives from three Elastic Security users — NGA, Maryland Innovation Security Institute, and Valiant.