Case Study: Siemens achieves faster security detection and proactive factory operations with Elastic Security

Siemens reclaims 5,000 analyst hours a year with Elastic

Siemens, a major industrial company, faced challenges with its security operations and factory observability. Their cybersecurity team was spending excessive time managing on-premises infrastructure instead of focusing on threat detection, while their factory IT team could only react to problems after they impacted users. To address this, Siemens partnered with Elastic, utilizing Elastic Security on Elastic Cloud for their security operations and the self-managed Elastic Stack with AutoOps for their Amberg factory.

The solution from Elastic provided a unified data platform that automated correlation and detection. This allowed Siemens to reclaim approximately 5,000 analyst hours per year, which were redirected to proactive security work. The time to ship new detection rules was reduced from a 3-4 week backlog to under one week. At the Amberg factory, Elastic's AutoOps enabled the small team to identify and resolve issues proactively before users were affected, significantly improving operational reliability.

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