In today’s defence environment, information is abundant, yet insight often remains elusive. While data pours in from every connected system, every edge device, and every digital touchpoint, security teams still spend too much time stitching together fragmented inputs, hunting for signals, and navigating silos just to answer basic questions.

In defence cybersecurity, every minute spent digging through disconnected security logs is a minute adversaries can exploit. Each missed correlation or delayed response undermines the confidence of leadership, increases risk, and erodes operational advantage.

Today’s security operations teams are tasked with monitoring exponentially growing volumes of data across fragmented systems, often without the time, context, or personnel needed to turn information into action. As threats grow more sophisticated and move at machine speed, legacy search and analysis processes become a liability. Investigations take too long. Alerts go untriaged. And decisions are made on incomplete data, putting missions and teams at risk.

Security intelligence that’s battle-tested, not just boardroom-proven

Elastic's security capabilities received rigorous testing in NATO's Locked Shields exercise, one of the world's largest live-fire cybersecurity simulations. During the event, blue teams — defensive cybersecurity units — deployed a comprehensive security architecture integrating multiple data sources: OS event logs, PowerShell logs, firewall/IPS/IDS data, threat intelligence feeds, and endpoint detection and response capabilities. The environment mirrored real-world defence operations, with the Elastic Common Schema (ECS) normalising disparate data sources to streamline detection workflows. Security teams gained unified visibility across their entire digital estate through preconfigured dashboards that simplified complex analysis tasks.

Protection capabilities included malware and ransomware prevention, malicious behaviour analysis, memory threat protection, and credential hardening. All detection rules mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework,² enabling teams to understand adversary tactics and techniques while measuring defensive coverage. The exercise also tested defensive resilience. Red teams — simulating sophisticated threat actors with advanced persistent capabilities — actively attempted to disable security tools. Features like agent tamper protection ensured monitoring remained intact even under direct attack — a critical capability in contested environments.