July 2020 Summaries

The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation, creating new challenges in security as organizations face increased attacks and data breaches. To combat this, ChaosSearch is helping Instruct-Eric, a pan-European consortium, monitor and secure their data and digital infrastructure, enabling them to accelerate research and delivery of a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2. ChaosSearch's platform enables a data lake philosophy, allowing customers to securely store data in the cloud and perform search and analytics on it, while also providing significant hunting capabilities to detect ad-hoc analysis and create monitors and alerts to inform security teams instantly. The company highlights the importance of fundamentals such as good password policies, patching, multi-factor authentication, and regular firewall review, and emphasizes the need for organizations to employ these measures and regularly verify their effectiveness. By enabling logging in all products and infrastructure and shipping logs securely to an S3 bucket, ChaosSearch provides a critical, holistic view to monitor and react to both internal and external threats.

In the ChaosSearch era we solved the problem in 3 minutes`: This refers to a recent customer error that threatened to derail the end of the workday. The company, Transeo, uses ChaosSearch to make log data searchable, which helped diagnose and fix the issue quickly. With ChaosSearch, the team was able to query logs against a unique request ID and filter for specific sequences, making it easier to identify and resolve the problem in just three minutes. This highlights the benefits of using ChaosSearch for efficient log management and analysis.