FireLayers Insights from Elastic{on} conference

(a post by Chen Bekor, FireLayers Head of Backend Engineering).

At Firelayers we are analyzing huge amount of traffic as it flows through our real time security gateway. To keep up with the latest and greatest technologies we’ve travelled to San Francisco earlier this month to attend the Elastic{on} conference ( You can find many recorded sessions and keynote presentations here: https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/conf/2016/sf).

Elastic is company behind the open source projects — Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats — designed to take data from any source and search, analyze, and visualize it in real time, and the conference wall filled with great speakers delivering detailed case studies and examples on using these big data analytics tools.

Elastic{on} is the meeting place of the Elastic community, where users, customers, and developers come together to learn and share their insights.

One of the interesting trends we noticed at the conference was the raising usage of the Elastic Stack in the Cyber Security industry (companies like CISCO and FireEye) for the purpose of collection analysis and reporting of anomalous and malicious activity.

The power of a schemaless data store combined with a powerful full text indexing and a rich API allows one to dissect big data in order to find irregular behaviors and uncommon patterns in http traffic.

One of the main challenges we are facing at FireLayers is taking this to the next level by translating these forensics findings into a robust product that can trace, alert and prevent in real time about significant incidents as they occur.

Chen Bekor of FireLayers

Hope to see you in next year at Elastic{on} !

Chen