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The AI arms race in cybersecurity: Why your SOC needs to evolve now

Mike Nichols — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The threat landscape has fundamentally shifted. Adversaries are no longer just nation-states and elite criminal groups with deep pockets. They are anyone with access to AI, and that changes everything.

The data platform bet: Why financial AI initiatives stall and how the winners scale

Tim Brophy — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discover why 40% of financial AI initiatives fail, and learn how a unified data platform enables secure, real-time AI scaling in regulated environments.

Stanford’s AI Index Report 2026 meets the security reality in financial services

Karen Mcdermott — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

AI is becoming core to financial services. But as adoption scales, so does risk. Without secure, real-time data, strong governance, and cyber resilience, AI can amplify threats as quickly as it drives innovation.

Why the Elasticsearch Platform is the missing piece in your AI stack

Matthew Skinner — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Most enterprise AI initiatives stitch together four to five systems for memory, search, and state. The Elasticsearch Platform handles all of it in one engine — and the architecture is simpler than you think.

Finally, a SIEM that gets cloud detection and response

Jennifer Ellard,Tamarian Del Conte,Sneha Sachidananda — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 05:00:00 GMT

Elastic Security combines CDR with SIEM to deliver crucial context, prioritized threat detection, and rapid response for a more efficient security posture.

AI adoption in security: Top use cases and mistakes to avoid

Elastic Security Team — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Discover top AI use cases in cybersecurity and key pitfalls to avoid when adopting AI in your SOC to improve threat detection and response.

AI-powered fraud detection: Protecting financial services with Elastic

Karen Mcdermott — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 08:00:00 GMT

Discover how Elastic uses AI and ML to revolutionize fraud detection in financial services. From real-time anomaly detection to predictive analytics, learn how institutions can combat fraud, ensure compliance, and enhance trust with our solutions.

1 year and 1 million messages later: Lessons learned building AI agents on the Elasticsearch Platform

Chris Blaisure,Riya Juneja — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

After a year and one million messages, Elastic's Field Technology team shares five lessons from building production AI agents: why logs matter most, how retrieval thresholds shape quality, and what high token counts actually signal.

Takeaways from Elastic’s Forge the Future Hackathon 2026 in Singapore

Chris Walker — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic's 2026 Forge the Future Hackathon in Singapore captured how quickly AI is moving to agentic systems that can reason, recommend, and act. Learn how 77 participants came together to design and build AI agent solutions in just four hours.

The Elasticsearch Agent Builder Hackathon

Himanshi Goyal — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Elasticsearch Agent Builder Hackathon showed AI agents built with Elastic tools to solve real-world problems. Winners include PHAROS (drug safety in <60s), Gauntlet (adversarial testing), and a duplicate detection agent for Kenya’s HIV program.

Gauntlet: What happens when your agent's tools fight back

Kavish Sathia — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Elasticsearch Agent Builder Hackathon spotlighted Gauntlet, a top-three project that uses mocking agents to mutate tool calls, expose hidden failures, and improve AI agent reliability.

Catching invisible errors: How I built a duplicate detection agent for Kenya's HIV program

Fredrick Kioko — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A multi-agent duplicate detection system built with Elastic Agent Builder addresses the 56% failure rate of manual duplicate detection in Kenya's HIV patient records. It uses tiered risk scoring and specific recs to provide $195K annual savings.

PHAROS: 4 agents, 60 seconds, 1 missed drug safety signal away from disaster

Prajwal Sutar — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

PHAROS is a 4-agent system built with Elasticsearch that automates pharmacovigilance. It detects adverse drug safety signals using WHO-standard analysis, generates regulatory reports, and sends critical alerts in under 60 seconds.

Elastic Stack 9.4.1 released

adrian brown — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Version 9.4.1 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 9.4.1 over the previous versions 9.4.0

For details of the issues that have been fixed and a full list of changes for each product in this version, please refer to the release notes.

Elastic 9.4: Workflows GA, Agent Builder updates, and Prometheus/PromQL support

Dan Courcy — Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic 9.4 makes Elastic the context and retrieval layer of choice with Agent Builder enhancements and Workflows GA while native Prometheus support and TSDB improvements make Elastic Observability the best platform for logs, metrics, and traces.

Is your SIEM actually ready? A new way to find out

Smriti — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

SIEM Readiness is a new capability in Elastic Security, available in technical preview as of 9.4, that provides a centralized, continuously updated, and actionable view of your SIEM's operational health.

Beyond debugging: How GenAI can turn logs into business intelligence

Elastic Observability Team — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Logs have returned to center stage for observability with new capabilities given the emergence of generative AI. Find out how GenAI and logs can provide visibility and insights to manage your operations and improve business outcomes.

From noise to knowledge: How GenAI is revolutionizing log management and analytics

Elastic Observability Team — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Logs have returned to center stage for observability with new insights and information for your SRE team. Driving efficiency in your day to day operations is possible with GenAI applied to the richest telemetry signal available: your logs.

How one partnership powers search for over 2 million WP Engine users

Sunile Manjee — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discover how WP Engine innovates with Google Cloud and Elastic to deliver high-precision search and seamless integration for modern software vendors.

The agentic era: Elastic at Google Cloud Next 2026

Brian Bergholm — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic’s collaboration with Google Cloud was on full display at Google Cloud Next 2026. Read about our joint developments and latest announcements as we strive to help customers build secure AI applications faster for any scale.

Elasticsearch 9.4 powers the next phase of the Elastic AI Ecosystem: Dell AI Data Platform with NVIDIA

Sunnie Weber — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

With the launch of Elasticsearch 9.4, we are reaching an important milestone: the general availability of our joint offerings with NVIDIA and Dell and a major step forward in helping enterprises move from AI experimentation to scaled implementation.

Native automation with Elastic Workflows — No SOAR required

Sumana Mannem — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic Workflows brings native automation to Elastic Security, eliminating the need for standalone SOAR. Combine scripted playbooks with AI reasoning to automate alert triage, enrichment, and response directly where your security data lives.

Rethinking public sector AI: 5 shifts driving mission outcomes

Oksana Abramovych — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Everyone had a theory on AI in the public sector. Now, see what’s actually working. Join IDC and Elastic to discuss the realities of AI adoption, data sovereignty, and building systems that deliver real impact.

How IT leaders can measure the ROI of agentic AI initiatives

Devin Rhoades — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Gartner® estimates that over 70% of agentic AI use cases will fail to deliver the expected value. Traditional ROI models don't apply. See how we’re successfully measuring agentic AI ROI at Elastic.

Elastic extends production-ready AI capabilities for all!

Elastic Security Team — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Elastic Security has a lot of generative AI capabilities, but two of them are now generally available for all Elastic users! Learn about Automatic Import and Attack Discovery.

Herding Llama 3.1 with Elastic and LM Studio

Charles Davison,Julian Khalifa — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Learn how to set up Elastic AI Assistant with a locally hosted Meta Llama 3.1 model with LM Studio.

Elastic wins 2025 Best Use of AI for Assisted Support

Julie Baxter-Rudd,Chris Blaisure — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

This award recognizes the innovation from Elastic’s technology team, our ability to embed AI within customer and agent workflows, and our product as a whole. Learn more about how we embed AI within customer and support experiences.

Elastic’s new Custom Threat Intelligence integration

Chema Martinez — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 05:00:00 GMT

The Custom Threat Intelligence integration allows security teams to bring in threat data from multiple sources converting it into ECS. By ingesting threat intelligence, users can enhance security visibility within Elastic's Search AI Platform.

JVM essentials for Elasticsearch: Metrics, memory, and monitoring

Nitish Pandey — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Learn JVM basics, including how to examine memory usage patterns and troubleshoot JVM issues, such as Exit code 127 and Exit code 137, by understanding JVM’s memory management and object reaping via garbage collection.

Guide to the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs: Vulnerability mitigation with Elastic

Rich Cabrera — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Mitigating the risks identified in the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications requires a unified platform approach. Elastic’s Search AI Platform provides this holistic solution by combining full lifecycle observability with powerful security analytics.

Elastic 8.15: Better semantic search, new OTel distribution, SIEM data import

Brian Bergholm — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 17:00:04 GMT

Elastic 8.15 includes enhancements in semantic search, new OTel collector distribution, AI-driven SIEM data onboarding, LLM integrations, additions to cross-cluster search (CCS), and more functionality within the Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL).

ElasticGPT: Empowering our workforce with generative AI

Jay Shah — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 05:00:00 GMT

ElasticGPT is a generative AI assistant designed to help Elastic employees quickly find information and answers from company data. Teams can use ElasticGPT via a self-service experience to summarize, categorize, and analyze information and data.

How to choose a vector database

The Elastic Platform team — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Explore the different types of vector databases available and discover the key factors to consider when choosing the right one.

Elastic named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SIEM for Enterprise 2024

Mark Settle — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic Security is named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for worldwide SIEM enterprise 2024 vendor assessment.

Elasticsearch runs up to 40% faster on Google Axion Processors (C4A)

Yuvraj Gupta — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Elastic collaborated with Google Cloud to provide higher indexing throughput on Google Axion Processors (C4A). Powered by C4A processors, Elastic Cloud Serverless delivers Elastic users up to 40% higher indexing throughput.

Know your tools: The full range of Elastic Security’s detection engineering capabilities

Kseniia Ignatovych — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 05:00:00 GMT

This blog provides a comprehensive overview of the detection capabilities available in Elastic Security. Learn about the latest features and get useful tips and tricks for your detection practice!

Crafting a hybrid geospatial RAG application with Elastic and Amazon Bedrock

Udayasimha Theepireddy (Uday),Srinivas Pendyala, AWS,Ayan Ray, AWS — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 05:00:00 GMT

This blog explores how to build a powerful retrieval augmented generation (RAG) system that incorporates geospatial data using Elasticsearch, Amazon Bedrock, and LangChain.

How to make a chatbot: Dos and don'ts for developers in an AI-driven world

The Elastic Platform team — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:22:25 GMT

Learn how to develop a chatbot effectively with this guide, covering do’s and don'ts for chatbot developers and other useful tips.

Government cybersecurity: Consolidating tools and costs with AI & ML

Chris Townsend — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

For government, healthcare, and education orgs looking to reduce costs and boost efficiency, Informa TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group report shows the value of Elastic Security, including how AI and ML can reduce security risk and lower TCO.

Elastic launches Express Migration program for Splunk customers

Santosh Krishnan — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT

The Elastic Express Migration program eases your transition from Splunk to Elastic Security, accelerating adoption and reducing total cost of ownership.