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Date Published
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Mark Settle
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1428
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Summary

Elastic Security 7.12 introduces a range of enhancements designed to improve cybersecurity defenses, including analyst-driven correlation and behavioral ransomware prevention. These features allow practitioners to better understand attack progressions and reduce false positives by leveraging sequence-based analysis and cross-index correlation. The update also includes advanced ransomware prevention for Windows systems via Elastic Agent, which uses low-level process data analysis to combat various ransomware families. Enhanced data management capabilities, such as schema on read and runtime fields, make it cost-effective to extend data visibility. New integrations, such as with Cisco AMP and ServiceNow, facilitate seamless data ingestion and incident response. The release also expands detection rules for macOS and Linux, extends MITRE ATT&CK coverage, and enhances threat intelligence capabilities through updated threat intelligence modules and new aggregation types in threshold rules. These improvements aim to streamline workflows, increase detection accuracy, and empower security teams to respond to threats more effectively.