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Automated Log Ingestion for a Global Cloud Security Enterprise

Client Overview

A leading cybersecurity enterprise, headquartered in the U.S., provides secure access, advanced cloud protection, and next-generation network defense. Their platform supports global organizations in handling massive amounts of security events and log data with a focus on threat detection and compliance.

Project Context

With rapid business growth and increasing data volumes, the client required a scalable, secure, and automated log ingestion solution. Their goal was to ingest ZIA and Okta logs into Elasticsearch while maintaining strict ECS compliance. Manual processes for deploying multi-node clusters were creating bottlenecks, limiting scalability, and raising operational overhead.

To overcome these challenges, the project emphasized:

  • Automating cluster deployment to improve efficiency.

  • Establishing secure ingestion pipelines.

  • Ensuring reliable backup, redundancy, and compliance across all log sources.

Key Challenges

  • Manual Deployments: Multi-node cluster setups were slow, repetitive, and prone to errors.
  • ECS Compliance: Required precise mapping for ZIA and Okta logs.
  • Security & Backup Management: Needed automated strategies for authentication, encryption, and redundancy at scale.

Project Objectives

  • Seamless ECS-compliant ingestion of ZIA & Okta security logs into Elasticsearch.

  • Fully automated multi-node cluster deployment using Ansible.

  • Secure log pipelines with CA-signed Fleet configurations plus automated backup and redundancy.

Solution Delivered by Elasticsearch Experts

  • Fleet Setup with CA Certificates:
    Configured Fleet with trusted CA-signed certificates, enabling secure log ingestion and authentication.

  • ZIA Log Integration with ECS Mapping:
    Built ingestion pipelines using NSS feeds and custom Amazon S3 connectors, ensuring ECS-compliant mappings.

  • Amazon Security Lake Assessment:
    Evaluated Security Lake for storage scalability but retained Elasticsearch for its stronger log analytics capabilities.

  • Okta Logs Integration:
    Designed and documented a complete ECS-compliant ingestion strategy for Okta, improving compliance and visibility.

  • Cluster Deployment Automation:
    Automated the rollout of multi-node Elasticsearch clusters with Ansible — including SSL, certificates, and secure authentication. This eliminated manual steps, improved deployment speed, and reduced errors.

Business Impact & Results

  • 5x Faster Log Ingestion – Significantly improved throughput, reducing time-to-insight.

  • 80% Automation Efficiency – Minimized manual intervention with fully automated deployments.

  • 99% Backup Reliability – Strengthened resilience with robust redundancy and backup strategies.