Elastic named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Extended Detection and Response Software 2025 Vendor Assessment

Today, no organization runs on just one host, one operating system, or one type of device. You’ve got Windows laptops, Kubernetes clusters, Surface devices, and cloud workloads all generating signals at the edge. The edge itself has become a commodity. 

What matters is context — the ability to unify all those edges into one platform where you can see, detect, and respond without compromise. That’s exactly what Elastic delivers: any edge, any signal, unified into full context. And when coverage gaps appear, our included endpoint closes them with proven protection. Unify the edge — don’t compromise on context. Elastic Security fulfills this through:

• Critical context from AI-powered assistance and Attack Discovery: Attack Discovery acts like a virtual SOC analyst, correlating alerts, attack paths, and enterprise knowledge with RAG-based context to guide faster investigations. Meanwhile, the built-in Elastic AI Assistant integrates relevant environmental context to summarize, explain, and recommend next steps.

• A thoughtful approach to data ingestion: Elastic offers 400+ out-of-the-box integrations for popular data sources and supports data ingestion through syslog, APIs, files, cloud object storage (e.g., Amazon S3, Azure Blob), and custom Elastic Agent or Logstash configurations.
• An open and extensible platform: Elastic believes security should be open and transparent. We share our detections publicly, make our AI decisions explainable, and integrate seamlessly with third-party EDR vendors. Whether you choose Elastic Defend, another EDR, or both, Elastic Security unifies your data without forcing you into a single-vendor stack — giving you the freedom to enable XDR your way.

We believe the IDC MarketScape’s recognition highlights what security teams need most today: faster prevention, context-driven response, and less tool sprawl. With Elastic Security, threats are disrupted early, detection engineers have instant access to all their data, and analysts work from one unified platform instead of juggling fragmented tools. 

But this recognition as a Leader for Elastic Security is far from an isolated event. From acing rigorous malware assessments to dazzling hardened security practitioners, Elastic Security is impressing all corners of the cybersecurity ecosystem.

Elastic Security’s early threat identification and prevention are regularly validated in AV-Comparatives Business Security Tests. In these AV-Comparatives tests, Elastic was the only vendor among 17 participants to achieve perfect 100% scores in both Malware and Real-World Protection across 220 complex attack simulations and 1,018 newly identified malware samples. Building on that success, in AV-Comparatives’ Endpoint Prevention and Response (EPR) annual report, Elastic outscored top competitors like CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and Fortinet in detecting 50 real-world advanced persistent threat (APT) scenarios, all while delivering equal or lower total cost of ownership.

But Elastic Security isn’t just getting noticed in the analyst community. Cybersecurity practitioners are giving Elastic cachet, too. Hacker, researcher, and content creator extraordinaire John Hammond recently took a hands-on look at Elastic Security. He was captivated with Elastic Security’s native AI capabilities like calling LLMs during threat hunting to quickly identify additional context that drastically improves even the most experienced security analysts’ time to detection.

The IDC MarketScape noted, “XDR is at an inflection point. The adversary works at the speed of AI and businesses expand their IT profile horizontally for new ways to deliver applications and store data. XDR is changing with this, and strategies need to evolve.” 

Elastic Security Labs underpins our XDR leadership with continuously evolving, actionable threat research. Our investigations into advanced intrusion sets like REF4578, stealthy macOS evasion campaigns, and novel ransomware tactics directly inform our open detection rules and protection models. 

But it doesn’t stop there. Elastic Security is a unified SIEM and XDR solution; so, our continuous investigations also recently included emerging threats like Microsoft Entra ID OAuth Phishing and leveraging Amazon S3’s Server-Side Encryption with Customer-Provided Keys (SSE-C) for ransom/extortion operations in the cloud. This closes the feedback loop between threat discovery and real-time defense, ensuring Elastic’s unified security platform is always evolving in step with adversaries.