Faster threat detection, stronger security: The Kibana advantage

Kibana's intuitive design shines in many applications but excels in security use cases. We've gathered valuable feedback from SOC analysts, detection engineers, and SIEM engineers who transitioned to the Elastic Stack:

• Improved user experience: Teams can search through data faster thanks to the simplicity of Kibana Query Language (KQL), Lucene, and powerful filtering capabilities. Moreover, Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL) revolutionizes data analysis by simplifying correlation, aggregation, and data transformation. Experience unparalleled efficiency and performance through an innovative computing architecture. This efficiency is critical in a fast-paced security environment.

• Enhanced collaboration: Kibana empowers teams to collaborate effectively — its simplicity in creating detection rules, visualizations, and dashboards allows teams to broaden their perspective by including previously excluded, nontechnical teams. This fosters a more holistic security approach, filling gaps that may arise from isolated efforts that are common in more complex solutions.  Elastic Security's Explore page offers a variety of prebuilt dashboards, including Hosts, Network, and Users, which are instantly populated with your ingested data. These dashboards, particularly when combined with Entity Analytics, provide an all-encompassing view of your environments.

• Reduced MTTD: By combining additional team insights, easy-to-create visualizations, and built-in high-level overview dashboards with tailored customizations, your security analysts can significantly enhance their threat detection capabilities.The cumulative effect of these enhancements leads to a faster response to threats — a crucial metric in today's security landscape.

The threat landscape is constantly evolving. While generative AI and detection rules aligned to MITRE ATT&CK provide undeniable benefits, they require additional time to implement and tune. We have had conversations with customers regarding their security team’s workflow and found that less user-friendly log analysis interfaces  — involve a learning curve that can take days or even weeks to master, which can significantly delay the realization of value.

Kibana offers immediate value with its user-friendly interface, intuitive query language, and impactful visualizations. This simplicity can make a difference from day one, empowering your security team to quickly detect and respond to threats.

Often, security team burnout is associated with “alert fatigue,” but false positives aren’t the only contributing factors. The lack of efficiency and the lack of creativity can also deplete team motivation. Kibana and its security applications allow security teams to think outside the box. Additional insights from newly engaged teams inspire more creative ways to approach common problems. Maintaining simplicity without losing functionality and effectiveness is a rare occurrence amongst security tools — yet Kibana manages to accomplish this.

When it comes to security, every second counts. Kibana's intuitive design and collaborative features enable faster threat detection and response, ultimately strengthening your organization's security posture. 

Want a streamlined interface to empower your security team? Try Kibana today.