Elastic Security 8.13: Enhanced benchmark rules and automated endpoint response actions

Elastic Security 8.13 introduces significant advancements in security management by refining benchmark rules, enhancing endpoint response actions, and expanding integrations. The update reorganizes compliance benchmark rules for easier navigation and customization, allowing users to tailor monitoring to their specific cloud security needs. It also improves proactive threat response with automated endpoint actions, such as process termination, suspension, and host isolation, integrated with Elastic Defend. Additionally, the release enhances the prebuilt rules interface with a per-field comparison feature to simplify understanding of rule changes and minimize false positives. New integrations with threat intelligence and security platforms like CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence and Mandiant Advantage further fortify the security ecosystem, offering a seamless experience for users on both self-managed and cloud deployments. These features are part of Elastic Security's ongoing effort to empower organizations with robust tools to swiftly respond to evolving cyber threats.