Elastic Buys Security Training and Consulting Company Perched

elasticElastic N.V. (NYSE: ESTC), the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, acquired Perched, LLC, a US based training and consulting company focused on security analytics, threat hunting and security operations.

The amount of the deal – completed in Elastic’s fiscal Q2 2020 and not expected to have a significant impact on the company’s operating results – was not disclosed.

The acquisition will give Elastic’s users training and consulting services for building advanced cybersecurity solutions using the Elastic Stack, including practitioner-level expertise for deploying, managing, and operating Elastic SIEM and Elastic’s proposed acquisition of Endgame.

Led by Andrew “variable” Pease, CEO, and Derek “dcode” Ditch, COO, Perched leverages experienced security practitioners to teach:
– Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats)
– RockNSM and CAPESstack
– Zeek (Bro), Suricata, Docket, Stenographer
– Security Operations and Team Dynamics

Elastic is a search company. As the creators of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash), the company builds self-managed and SaaS offerings that make data usable in real time and at scale for use cases like application search, site search, enterprise search, logging, APM, metrics, security, business analytics, and many more.

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22/08/2019

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