What’s new in Elastic Security 8.2: Unleash analysts with context and expertise

Elastic Security 8.2 introduces enhancements designed to improve the efficiency of security teams by providing deeper insights and greater visibility into potential threats. The release features rich alert contextualization, osquery host inspection directly from alerts, new investigation guides, and the general availability of threat intelligence. It offers improved user activity monitoring to combat insider threats and privilege abuse, alongside Session View for examining process executions on Linux systems. Analysts benefit from accelerated alert triage with enriched context, enabling more precise identification of alerts that require attention. The update also includes new investigation guides with expert advice, extending support for detecting threats against Windows systems, which aids both junior and experienced analysts. The general availability of threat intelligence allows organizations to leverage multiple sources for event enrichment and automated detection. Enhanced endpoint behavior protections and the ability to use custom blocklists further bolster defenses against sophisticated adversaries. Additionally, the update includes prebuilt data integrations and detection rules mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, helping organizations detect and respond to a wide array of attack techniques.