Elastic’s 2022 Global Threat Report: A roadmap for navigating today’s growing threatscape

A CISO reflects on insights from the 2022 Elastic Global Threat Report, emphasizing growing cloud-focused threats and the importance of evolving cloud security posture management beyond native tools. Key data points include that nearly 40% of malware infections occur on Linux, 57% of cloud security events are tied to AWS (22% GCP, 21% Azure), and about one-third of cloud alerts involve credential access. The piece urges prioritizing security fundamentals (IAM, patching, MFA, threat modeling), and promotes open security through shared protection artifacts and ATT&CK-mapped, prebuilt detection rules to strengthen SOC effectiveness and overall security posture.