March 2021 Summaries

ChaosSearch is rethinking the way businesses manage and analyze their data, offering a solution that makes data faster and cheaper to store and analyze while broadening the use cases that data analytics can support. A key part of this approach is de-siloing data, allowing for centralized analysis of any data from any source. This is combined with optimizing analytics costs by keeping ingestion, storage, and analytics architectures simple, being structure-agnostic to accommodate various data forms, and being use-case agnostic to deliver value across multiple workflows. Additionally, a modern data analytics approach prioritizes optimizing data performance, leveraging compression, high-performance cloud storage, and avoiding unnecessary sharding to ensure rapid data movement, access, and analysis.

Jama Connect is a tool that helps software development teams define and manage software requirements with traceability across the entire application lifecycle. Jira Software is a collaboration tool that allows DevOps teams to plan and coordinate activities across the software development life cycle. GitHub is a cloud-based repository service used by product development teams to host and manage code, maintain version control, and support collaboration throughout the DevOps release cycle. Gradle is an open-source build automation system with support for Java, Scala, Javascript, and C/C++. Jenkins is an open-source automation server that makes it easy for software developers to automate the build-test-release process by defining and customizing a continuous delivery pipeline. Selenium is an open-source browser automation tool used to automate functional and integration testing for web-based applications. Sonatype Nexus acts as a centralized location for storing all of the external libraries needed to build and run your application. Red Hat's Ansible Platform helps DevOps teams achieve Infrastructure-as-Code by automating the configuration of IT infrastructure during a software build. ChaosSearch is a log analytics platform that makes it easy for DevOps teams to aggregate, index, and query log files directly in Amazon S3 buckets. These tools are used to accelerate the software release cycle and implement DevOps best practices like Infrastructure-as-Code, collaborative development and version control, test automation, integrated configuration management, and CI/CD.

The ChaosSearch Data Platform has been recognized with two Gold awards in the 2021 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards for Best Security Analytics Solution and Best Security Log Analysis solution. This recognition highlights the platform's ability to provide a scalable, centralized analytics foundation for enterprise cybersecurity architecture. The platform enables SecOps teams to collect and analyze all their data without tradeoffs, providing virtually unlimited scalability and massive cost savings. Its unique approach allows customers to centralize more data from a wider range of sources, retain data online for longer periods, and make it searchable and ready for analytics. This enables improved security use cases such as monitoring and alerting, forensic investigations, threat hunting, and DDoS attack mitigation, ultimately leading to a superior overall security posture. The platform's scalability, economics, and simplicity make it an ideal solution for SecOps teams looking to improve their analytical capabilities and enhance their cybersecurity operations.