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Elastic: OmniSOC: A shared cyber-defense center for higher education powered by ELK

Five member universities of the Big Ten Academic Alliance recently launched a new shared cybersecurity operations center, called OmniSOC, to share threat intelligence between its members, and dramatically reduce the time from threat detection to mitigation. Powered by the Elastic Stack (ELK Stack), OmniSOC ingests and correlates data from thousands of systems across all of its member institutions into Elasticsearch, and then analyzes the data to alert participating SOC teams on breaches and threats in real time.

How to counteract 3 types of bias and run inclusive meetings

Think back to your last team meeting. Did you get in everything you wanted to say? Did that one rambunctious teammate jump in before you could finish your killer point? We’ve all been there. It feels like crap, right? Yet, the truth is that how it makes us feel is only part of the story. There’s also the not-so-trivial matter of how being ignored or talked over in meetings limits the entire group’s performance.

Advanced Analytics-Your Path to Optimization

Organizations know there is value in data and analytics, but struggle to understand the different analytics capabilities and when to use them. And the shifting focus from descriptive to predictive and prescriptive analytics results in a much higher degree of difficulty. The answer lies in building a portfolio of analytics-driven capabilities to address the gamut of business needs.

Driving Successful IT Change Management through User Engagement

Bringing new technology and tools into organizations increases productivity and is critical for achieving digital transformation. But according to a study by MIT Sloan Management Review and Capgemini Consulting, 63% of managers believe that the pace of technological change in their workplaces is too slow, primarily due to "lack of urgency" and poor communication about the strategic benefits of new tools. Increasingly, savvy managers are realizing that the key to realizing the full potential of IT investments lies in their users fully adopting and embracing it.