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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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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.

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Elasticsearch as a time series database for telemetry data at NS1

Learn why NS1 -- a leading DNS provider -- chose Elasticsearch as its time series database for telemetry data management.

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Countering cyber threats with Elastic Cloud Enterprise at CERDEC/ARL

This Elastic{ON} Tour recap explores how Cyber Ops in the Department of Defense used Elastic to scale security data ingest and conduct critical threat hunts.