Elastic Success Stories in State and Local Government
To mitigate the risk of cyberattacks, State and Local Government organizations must respond swiftly to evolving threats by migrating their legacy storage and information management systems to a single data intelligence platform. The Elastic Stack enhances data discovery, accessibility and analysis in the Public Sector by accelerating database search performance and network monitoring while fortifying threat intelligence with automated risk assessments at scale.
State and Local Government entities have taken ownership of their data by leveraging innovative solutions like Elastic Kibana and Elasticsearch to optimize querying, networking, monitoring, security, and operational analysis processes. Discover how Public Sector agencies use Elastic's data discovery platform to accelerate operations and establish a resilient foundation for combatting future threats.
View the resources to explore how Elastic demonstrates excellence and adaptability in real-world scenarios by:
- Streamlining information lifecycle management with continuous monitoring tools
- Enriching logs from disparate, unstructured data sources
- Enhancing situational awareness and informed decision-making
- Reducing the cost of storage hardware and distributed search times
Arizona Department of Administration
Arizona Department of Administration
Using a Risk Based Approach to Provide Cost-Effective Security
The State of Arizona Enterprise Security team increases the automation and reporting capabilities of its risk assessment and threat intelligence process with Elastic
PROFILE
About: Administrative and business operations hub of the state of Arizona
Industry: Public Sector
Location: USA
GOALS
- Improve Statewide Security
- Improve Cost Effectiveness of Security Tools
- Increase Statewide Accountability
SOLUTIONS
- Alerts and machine learning jobs are run with Elastic Security to help reduce “noise” and prioritize security issues and risk
- Data brought into a single place where it’s mapped accordingly with Elastic Observability
RESULTS
- Enables the State of Arizona to continuously improve its security posture with data-driven risk assessment
- Ability to calculate the utility to cost ratio of security tools to help justify budgets with actual evidence
Salt Lake County
South Dakota – BIT
South Dakota Bureau of Information and Telecommunications
How South Dakota’s BIT Defends Against Cyber Threats
“We like to think of the Elastic Stack as someway of taking a very raw source of logs and getting it to something that is actually useable.”
-Nicholas Penning, Security Technology Engineer
PROFILE
About: South Dakota’s center for information and communications
Industry: Government
Location: North America
GOALS
- Identify all of the endpoints that they had in their organization and understand what might be occurring on those systems
- Get faster incident response times
- Improve their reports after an incident occurs
SOLUTIONS
- Using logstash to enrich data
- Manipulating s events to add metadata from other parts of infrastructure with logstash
- Quickly querying logs with elasticsearch
RESULTS
- Gained the ability to monitor assets that aren’t on their network
- Visibility into users that may be clicking malicious links
- Understanding how events can correlate across different indices