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Articles by Joe DeFever

Content Manager, Elastic Security

Joe creates written and multimedia content that communicates Elastic Security's value and functionality to security professionals. He has more than seven years of experience marketing in the cybersecurity industry. In his free time, he enjoys snowboarding, rock climbing, and producing music.

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9 benefits of AI-driven SIEM for boosting security

AI-driven SIEM solutions automate and simplify processes that have (until now) remained complex and time-consuming — providing an accurate picture of risk and significantly enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of the SOC.

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Essential tools for building successful security analytics

AI-driven security analytics improves your security team’s ability to respond to incidents much faster and maintain a more robust defense posture. In this blog, we’ll explore the essentials of AI-driven security analytics.

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Top priorities of today’s cybersecurity leader

Security leaders default to tackling the “on fire” problems first and often for obvious reasons. While challenging, allotting more time for forward-looking initiatives will ultimately increase their organization's security posture in the long run.

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Is your SIEM ready for the AI era? Essential insights and preparations

Legacy systems no longer effectively address today’s fast-evolving cyber threats. The future SIEM is an AI-enhanced system that analyzes all of your data — ignoring the noise to proactively detect attacks and automatically remediate threats.

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Addressing security practitioner burnout: A vital step for security leaders

AI is monumental in helping elevate the skills and operational efficiency of cybersecurity professionals. But it's also showing great potential to help with another familiar, unfortunate trend among practitioners: burnout.

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Is it time to replace your SIEM?

If you aren’t able to replace your existing SIEM outright, that doesn’t mean you can’t supplement its capabilities with a more performant solution. Elastic allows all users to try out a new, powerful SIEM with little to no upfront cost.

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Collecting all the data your SIEM needs to keep up

With Elastic Security, collect all the data your SIEM needs to perform at its best, without the technical limitations or restrictive licensing. Accomplish more with access to and fast querying of high-volume data sources.

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Working for Elastic (out of a van)

Van life isn't always easy, unless you have a job that's distributed by design. Learn how Joe DeFever made work into an adventure by taking advantage of Elastic's distributed nature.

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Monitoring and securing a geo-dispersed data center with Elasticsearch

This Elastic{ON} Tour talk details how Hill Enterprise Data Center manages/distributes US Air Force maintenance data securely and at scale with Elasticsearch.