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Articles by Jake King

Elastic Security Lead & Co-founder Cmd Security, Elastic

Co-Founder and Chief Security Officer of Cmd (now part of Elastic)

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The future of cyber threat prevention lies in open security

Open security — a methodology that shifts the dynamic of a security company’s relationship with its customer — has the potential to transform the cybersecurity industry by bringing security practitioners together to create a more resilient response.

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What are Elastic Security capabilities in the cloud — and how do they drive results?

There are many benefits to conducting security operations on a cloud-based platform. In this post, we’ll cover a few of the benefits Elastic Security for Cloud users experience, and how you can take advantage of an Elastic Cloud deployment yourself.

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The secret is out: Why Open Security is key to preventing cyber threats

Open security — a methodology that shifts the dynamic of a security company’s relationship with its customer — can transform the cybersecurity industry by bringing security practitioners together to create a resilient response to enterprise threats.

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A peek behind the BPFDoor

In this research piece, we explore BPFDoor — a backdoor payload specifically crafted for Linux in order to gain re-entry into a previously or actively compromised target environment.

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Nimbuspwn: Leveraging vulnerabilities to exploit Linux via Privilege Escalation

Microsoft 365 Defender team released a post detailing several identified vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities allow adversarial groups to escalate privileges on Linux systems, allowing for deployment of payloads, ransomware, or other attacks.

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Okta and LAPSUS$: What you need to know

The latest organization under the microscope of the LAPSUS$ group is Okta. Threat hunt for the recent breach targeting Okta users using these simple steps in Elastic

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Detecting and responding to Dirty Pipe with Elastic

Elastic Security is releasing detection logic for the Dirty Pipe exploit.

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Elastic protects against data wiper malware targeting Ukraine: HERMETICWIPER

Analysis of the HERMETICWIPER malware targeting Ukranian organizations.

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Analysis of Log4Shell vulnerability & CVE-2021-45046

In this post, we cover next steps the Elastic Security team is taking for users to continue to protect themselves against CVE-2021-44228, or Log4Shell.