Elastic Security

Elastic Security is an agentic security operations platform that combines SIEM, XDR and automation in a single product built on the Elasticsearch search and analytics foundation. Elastic's commercial argument is framed around cost and openness — the company positions the product as built to secure rather than to tax, pointing at per-endpoint licensing, automation surcharges and opaque AI as costs that competing platforms impose and Elastic does not. Endpoint protection and detection are included rather than licensed separately per agent, and the platform's detection rules are published openly rather than held as vendor secrets, which allows security teams to review, tune and contribute to the logic that governs their alerts. Because the underlying data layer is Elasticsearch, the platform handles large telemetry volumes and long retention periods natively, and teams already operating the Elastic Stack can extend into security without introducing a separate data platform. Detection spans endpoint, cloud, network and identity sources with correlation into unified alerts, and the agentic capability applies AI to triage and investigation workflows. Elastic Security suits organizations with engineering capacity that value transparency and control over turnkey simplicity, and those seeking to consolidate observability and security on shared infrastructure.