Many defence organisations operate in an environment where dozens of disjointed security tools create financial and operational inefficiency. Much of the organisation’s spending is dedicated to simply managing this complexity. There’s also considerable complexity in ensuring compliance across MOD and NATO standards. Managing multitenant cybersecurity contracts adds an additional administrative burden, while legacy infrastructure demands increased operation and maintenance costs. Meanwhile, defence contractors face mounting threats from malicious cyber attacks and sophisticated ransomware.

Fragmentation like this creates non-interoperable, siloed systems, forcing manual correlation across platforms. Worse, it can slow threat response and create security blind spots. When incidents occur, costs multiply as analysts navigate multiple interfaces to form a complete picture of the threat.

The MOD faces unique challenges with data silos across classification levels and operational domains. Elastic’s data mesh approach addresses siloed data issues by enabling secure queries across multiple data repositories without moving it, copying it, or compromising security boundaries. This approach aligns with the MOD's Defence Data Strategy¹ by breaking down contractual and technical silos while maintaining appropriate access controls.

Elastic’s Search AI Platform eliminates data silos by giving all your data a common language, making it easier to search, understand, analyse, and act on information from different sources. The result is interoperability between data formats and classified and unclassified networks, which is critical for defence operations that must maintain separation while enabling appropriate information sharing.

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