Simplify Zero Trust with a data-centric approach

Zero Trust is changing how organizations protect data, users, and systems in an increasingly complex cybersecurity environment. Elastic connects data across systems and environments for unified Zero Trust visibility and analytics.

Discover how finance, healthcare, and government institutions are using Elastic to operationalize Zero Trust strategies for a full view of cybersecurity threats.

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Key challenges of Zero Trust in the public sector

  • Complex legacy infrastructure

    Most legacy systems were not designed with Zero Trust principles in mind, making modernization costly and difficult. Adapting outdated processes to today’s requirements often slows progress.

  • Visibility gaps across hybrid and multi-cloud environments

    Disparate tools for each Zero Trust pillar fragment visibility. Without a unified view across data types and locations, teams can miss critical threats — especially when every second matters.

  • Balancing usability and control

    Zero Trust protections can add friction and extra steps for end users. Successful rollouts must balance strong security controls with smooth user experiences.

  • Compliance with CISA, NIST, and government mandates

    Government agencies and regulated industries face strict Zero Trust mandates with fixed deadlines and technical requirements, such as CISA's in the US. Having a unified data layer can speed adoption and compliance.

Benefits of building a unified Zero Trust Architecture with Elastic

Elastic's data-centric Zero Trust approach integrates with your existing systems to ingest all data across all pillars — wherever it's generated and whatever the original format. As a result, your team has a single, secure place to view, analyze, and correlate all data, so you’ll never miss a threat.

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Real-world Zero Trust security expertise

  • Data mesh for simplified data access and insights

    Elastic integrates with your existing systems to globally index and analyze data where it resides. This distributed approach reduces cost and complexity while making information holistically accessible and actionable — almost instantly.

  • Unified view across all Zero Trust pillars

    Elastic brings together user activity, device health, network flows, and application events into a single, searchable index. Security teams gain the complete context needed to detect and respond quickly.

  • Holistic action across your Zero Trust Architecture

    With all relevant data unified, Elastic enables broad detections, automated responses, and real-time policy enforcement — from forcing MFA on suspicious accounts to isolating endpoints or updating network segmentation.

Customer spotlight

How a US federal agency achieved Zero Trust cyber defense with Elastic

A large federal agency modernized its cybersecurity operations with the Elasticsearch Platform at the core of its Zero Trust strategy. The results:

  • Reduced costs by leveraging Elastic's FedRAMP-authorized cloud platform
  • Boosted analyst productivity with AI-powered alerts and automation
  • Stronger risk mitigation through real-time threat detection and rapid response
  • Simplified compliance with OMB, CISA, and other federal mandates

Meet your organization's Zero Trust security demands

Organizations are under pressure to secure users, devices, and data — without slowing innovation or user experience. Elastic provides the foundation to do both.

  • Consolidate your tools

    The Elasticsearch Platform ingests, organizes, and normalizes structured and unstructured data for unified visibility and analytics. From there, you can scale into SIEM, logging compliance, GenAI experiences, and more.

  • Cut data storage costs

    Elastic's flexible data tiers can align to your access frequency and cost requirements, making it affordable to meet strict log retention mandates such as M-21-31 in the US.

  • Plug into third-party tools

    Built on open standards and an API-first design, Elastic connects seamlessly to SIEM, SOAR, and ticketing systems in your Zero Trust Architecture. No custom integrations required.

  • Scale with ease and affordability

    As Zero Trust matures, data volumes grow. The Elasticsearch Platform is built for enterprise scale — powering some of the world’s largest banks, research labs, and governments.

  • Gain visibility and efficiency

    With support for open standards like Elastic Common Schema (ECS) and OpenTelemetry (OTel) — plus hundreds of built-in integrations — Elastic eliminates vendor lock-in and streamlines automated, end-to-end Zero Trust workflows.

  • Safeguard cloud data with FedRAMP

    Elastic Cloud Hosted is FedRAMP authorized at the moderate level on AWS GovCloud in the US and is currently In Process for FedRAMP High.

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Zero Trust FAQ

What is Zero Trust and why is it important now?

Zero Trust is a modern security framework built on the principle of "never trust, always verify."" Users and devices are never implicitly trusted, whether inside or outside the network perimeter. Every access request must be continually verified and authenticated before access is granted or maintained.

Today, Zero Trust is critical because of advanced threats, insider risks, and hybrid cloud growth. Many organizations — including the US federal government — are now mandated to adopt Zero Trust Architectures.