ESTC Huge Win With the Federal Government

This was called out as a win in the call, but the magnitude didn’t sink in even though Shay said:

“Elastic was also selected for use with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostic and Mitigation or CDM dashboard, as part of the solution proposed by our partner ECS. CDM deploys tools to every civilian agency to increase their cybersecurity posture by ingesting, analyzing and visualizing data that provides insights into asset management, identity and access management, network security, and data protection management.”

Just released a PR for this win.

https://ir.elastic.co/file/Index?KeyFile=399404966

ECS, a leader in advanced technology, science, and engineering solutions, is partnering with Elastic N.V. (NYSE: ESTC), the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, to provide the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) with an integrated dashboard solution for continuous monitoring and mitigation of cyber threats and vulnerabilities within its ecosystem.

So what is CISA inside DHS?

Established by the November 2018 Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018. CISA is a new agency that unifies several other Federal Government Agencies to carry out the DHS mission of Cybersecurity for the Federal Government and it’s network (.gov).

CISA builds the national capacity to defend against cyber attacks and works with the federal government to provide cybersecurity tools, incident response services and assessment capabilities to safeguard the ‘.gov’ networks that support the essential operations of partner departments and agencies.

One of the primary tools it uses is the Continuous Diagnosis and Mitigation Program(CDM) and via the CDM dashboard. Here’s how that works:

CDM offers industry-leading, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) tools to support technical modernization as threats change. To start, agency-installed sensors are deployed and perform an ongoing, automated search for known cyber flaws. Results from the sensors feed into an agency dashboard that produces customized reports that alert network managers of their most critical cyber risks. Prioritized alerts enable agencies to efficiently allocate resources based on the severity of the risk. Progress reports track results, which can be used to compare security postures among agency networks. Summary information feeds into a federal enterprise-level dashboard to inform and provide situational awareness into cybersecurity risk posture across the Federal Government.

Ingest, search, find, alert, display. Who do we know that has a platform for that?

The CDM Dashboard receives, aggregates, and displays information from CDM tools at the agency and federal levels. They will be using Elastic as the dashboard datastore along with Elastic’s proprietary field- and document-level security features. Elastic is on track to reduce time to insight from weeks to seconds.

The incumbent CDM Dashboard prime contractor, ECS, is partnering with Elastic to streamline data aggregation and enrichment, risk scoring, and data visualization. The Elastic Stack will augment, and in some cases replace, multiple closed-source legacy components to more accurately and efficiently track and report critical metrics for both cabinet- and sub-level agencies.

ECS was awarded the contract May 2019 to build this CDM system in a 6 year $276M deal.

https://www.meritalk.com/articles/cisa-awards-cdm-dashboard-…

“At the end of the day it’s about the data,” he said, adding, “if the data is good you can do a lot of things.”

Early stage of the deployment for this government wide project. This is a big big win.

Darth

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As one with considerable Federal contracting experience, I can assure you that a “win” is only a win in the initial press release. There is seldom a bottom line “win”.

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Had my head stoved in, but I’m still on my feet

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We can play buzzkill with any press release…not sure your point.

“Verizon to resell Zoom!”.
I can tell you from experience that is a non factor and btw they sell cisco to the large enterprises and zoom would be for smaller smb. But most businesses work with channel vars/resellers for UC and not telcos directly.

See? Easy.

Dreamer

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ECS was awarded the contract May 2019 to build this CDM system in a 6 year $276M deal.

https://www.meritalk.com/articles/cisa-awards-cdm-dashboard-…

“At the end of the day it’s about the data,” he said, adding, “if the data is good you can do a lot of things.”

Early stage of the deployment for this government wide project. This is a big big win.

I think that the “endorsement”/purchase from UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY for a security/threat detection product/service is worth A LOT more the the actual business from the deal. I don’t think that there is a better reference.

Chris

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