Open by design: How Elastic supports MOSA, the DoD's Modular Open Systems Approach

This post details how Elastic's data and analytics platform supports the DoD's Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) by emphasizing severability, standard interfaces, and flexible deployment. It highlights the use of OpenTelemetry for ingestion, OCSF/STIX/TAXII for security content, REST/JSON APIs for query/management, standard identity protocols (SAML, OIDC, PKI), S3 API for snapshots, and Kubernetes orchestration via ECK. The post also discusses the AGPL v3 license option for Elasticsearch and Kibana, reinforcing the commitment to open source and competition. It maps Elastic's capabilities against MOSA's five tenets: modularity, openness, scalability, flexibility, and reusability, positioning Elastic as a data and analytics module that can be integrated and removed without impacting upstream data producers.