ElasticON Public Sector: State and Local Government & Education

Elastic Founder and CEO Shay Banon 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.

The State of Arizona Enterprise Security team undertook a proof of concept to increase the automation and reporting capabilities of its risk assessment and threat intelligence process. The goal is to analyze large amounts of data using Elastic to produce more accurate risk assessments with prevention, detection, response capabilities, and accurately model the cybersecurity threats the state is facing. This enables the State of Arizona to validate its security posture, be agile to continuously improve and respond to evolving cyber threats, and improve the cost effectiveness of security tools.

Jared Pane interviews Chris Adamson, Information Security Engineer with Salt Lake County, about how he uses Elastic to protect his IT.

OHSU is a nationally prominent research university and Oregon’s only academic health center. It educates health professionals and scientists and provides leading-edge patient care, community service, and biomedical research. With the visibility of Elastic and Elastiflow, they are able to see and fix performance and security issues before their users become aware of them. The increased visibility also helped them detect security threats and address weaknesses in network infrastructure. And it’s currently being scaled up to store one year of all network traffic that will be entirely on NVMe storage for expedient queries.

Elastic’s Joe Mara facilitates a conversation including product and mission perspectives from three Elastic Security users — Appalachian State University, New York State Office of Information Technology Services, and the University of Oregon.