Orca Security needed a tool to stay ahead of the curve and keep pace with the demands of cybersecurity teams (as well as developers, DevOps, cloud architects, risk governance, and compliance teams) who need to easily and intuitively understand exactly what’s in their cloud environments. Orca wanted teams across the organization, regardless of their skill level, to quickly … [Read more...] about How Orca leverages Search AI to help users gain visibility, achieve compliance, and prioritize risks
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How does search solve data problems?
The key to navigating all of these challenges is to first understand that they are connected. Fundamentally, each need is addressed by getting value out of an ever-growing, ever-evolving mountain of data in real time. So what's search got to do with it? Search helps you to connect the dots and to put all that data to work.When you're shopping online, being able to search, sort, … [Read more...] about How does search solve data problems?
How to create a search engine
The final piece to this puzzle is actually displaying the search results to the user. The search engine results page takes all the hard work you’ve done with the servers, data ingestion, and index, culminating in a list of useful results for the user to pick from.How this looks will vary from search engine to search engine, but you’ll likely have a title, link, description, and … [Read more...] about How to create a search engine
Understanding AI search algorithms | Elastic Blog
NLP algorithms are an essential part of search because they bridge the gap between human communication and machine understanding. This enables search AI to understand what is being asked of it and to deliver results that are relevant and contextual to the query.Using NLP, the search results will be more aligned with the user's intent, and the algorithm will be able to handle … [Read more...] about Understanding AI search algorithms | Elastic Blog
New Variant of DLL Search Order Hijacking Bypasses Windows 10 and 11 Protections
Jan 01, 2024NewsroomWindows Security / Vulnerability Security researchers have detailed a new variant of a dynamic link library (DLL) search order hijacking technique that could be used by threat actors to bypass security mechanisms and achieve execution of malicious code on systems running Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows 11. The approach "leverages executables commonly … [Read more...] about New Variant of DLL Search Order Hijacking Bypasses Windows 10 and 11 Protections
Paving the way for modern search workflows and generative AI apps
We’re dedicated to creating a simplified developer experience. We’re releasing streamlined commands that abstract away the complexity of inference and model management work streams that you can use behind one simple API. We’re improving default settings for dense vectors and providing automatic mappings too. With one call, you can summarize results or embed text as vectors from … [Read more...] about Paving the way for modern search workflows and generative AI apps
Identify slow queries in generative AI search experiences
Editor's Note (warning),,Important note for Elasticsearch Service users: At this time, the Kibana settings changes described in this post are restricted in the Cloud console and cannot be configured without manual intervention from our Support team. Our Engineering team is working to remove the restriction on these settings so that internal APM may be enabled by all of our … [Read more...] about Identify slow queries in generative AI search experiences
How to add support for more languages in your Elastic Enterprise Search engines
How to add support for more languages in your Elastic Enterprise Search enginesEngines in Elastic App Search enable you to index documents and provide out-of-the-box, tunable search capabilities. By default, engines support a predefined list of languages. If your language is not on that list, this blog explains how you can add support for additional languages. We’ll do this by … [Read more...] about How to add support for more languages in your Elastic Enterprise Search engines
Microsoft Fixes New Azure AD Vulnerability Impacting Bing Search and Major Apps
Apr 01, 2023Ravie LakshmananAzure / Active Directory Microsoft has patched a misconfiguration issue impacting the Azure Active Directory (AAD) identity and access management service that exposed several "high-impact" applications to unauthorized access. "One of these apps is a content management system (CMS) that powers Bing.com and allowed us to not only modify search … [Read more...] about Microsoft Fixes New Azure AD Vulnerability Impacting Bing Search and Major Apps
Improving information retrieval in the Elastic Stack: Steps to improve search relevance
Since 8.0 and the release of third-party natural language processing (NLP) models for text embeddings, users of the Elastic Stack have access to a wide variety of models to embed their text documents and perform query-based information retrieval using vector search.Given all these components and their parameters, and depending on the text corpus you want to search in, it can be … [Read more...] about Improving information retrieval in the Elastic Stack: Steps to improve search relevance