SIEMs like a stretch: Elastic searches for cash from IT pros with security budgets

SIEMs like a stretch: Elastic searches for cash from IT pros with security budgets

Open-source product now has yet another paid option on top


Black Hat Europe Elastic, the biz behind open-source search engine stack Elasticsearch, has launched its own SIEM – a somewhat counterintuitive thing to do, you'd think, until you look at how many others are using Elasticsearch for lucrative security products.


For those not in the know, SIEM is short for Security Information and Event Management: a fancy term for keeping tabs on all sorts of alerts and warnings of suspicious network activity, drawing data from various sources and presenting it in a manageable form.


Building on its recent declaration that its ECK tool is the official search function for Elasticsearch on Kubernetes, El ..

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