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Inside Elastic's agentic SOC: How we took AI alert triage from 60% to 92% accuracy

Elastic's InfoSec team runs three agents that read the detection rule's investigation guide and the closure reasons on 30 days of past cases. Analysts now clear most alerts with a single click in Slack.

Maggie Musquez

How a team of entity maintainers monitors, connects and scores entities in Elastic Security

Inside Elastic Security, background jobs called maintainers each own one piece of every user, host and service record, from building entities out of raw logs to resolving identities and scoring risk.

Uri Weisman

13 million tool calls: auditing every AI coding agent action with Elastic Agent

Cursor hooks and Elastic Agent capture every tool call, shell command, file read and MCP request as structured events you can hunt with ES|QL.

Wieger van der Meulen

The security signal log tailing can't see: tracking npm cooldown removals with Elastic Agent

A 40-line CEL integration snapshots .npmrc files every 6 hours to catch cooldown removals. This post walks through the three ways we broke filestream before landing on snapshot semantics.

Wieger van der Meulen

Agents vs. agents: how we triage HackerOne reports for $2 each, 85% as well as a human

LLMs made it cheap to flood bug bounty programs with submissions. Here's how Elastic built an AI triage agent that matches human decisions 85% of the time, including the architecture, threat model and calibration against 3,300 real reports

Ioannis Kakavas

SOC case management and detection rule history in Elastic Security

Elastic Security now tracks every detection rule change with one-click rollback and makes case data queryable out of the box, so SOC teams get audit trails and reporting without configuring anything.

Kseniia Ignatovych

Elastic goes all-in on Hacker Summer Camp at Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas

Attack Discovery turns raw alerts into validated threats and Elastic Defend closes vulnerable driver gaps as fast as they're disclosed. Watch it all run against real attacks at the booth.

Jackie McGuire

What's new in Elastic Defend: 800+ vulnerable driver rules, automated troubleshooting, and ARM support

Elastic Defend automatically generates and instantly deploys vulnerable driver YARA rules from VirusTotal, LOLDrivers and Microsoft's blocklist, closing the gap BYOVD attacks depend on. Plus a new troubleshooting skill and ARM endpoint protection.

Pedro Jaramillo

Alert Zero: AI-driven alert triage and attack investigation for the agentic SOC

Elastic Security 9.5 gives SOC teams AI that handles first-pass alert triage and investigation, so analysts can get back to threat hunting and detection engineering instead of working through queue noise.

David Elgut

Stop rewriting detection rules by hand: automatic Sentinel-to-Elastic migration is here

Elastic's first automatic migration from a modern SIEM. Translate your Sentinel detection rules into Elastic Security without rebuilding them.

Charles Davison

Inside Elastic InfoSec's agentic SOC: How we cut AI agent LLM calls by 60%

We run fourteen AI agents that triage Elastic InfoSec alerts. They were taking 19 LLM calls to do work that needed 8. Here's the five-step optimization loop we run across the fleet, plus the prompt template you can use with any AI assistant.

Aaron Jewitt

Inside Elastic InfoSec's agentic SOC: When to inline your agent's skills for a 5× cost reduction

We tested two agentic SOC architectures in parallel across 36,822 real Agent Builder conversations. One won by 5.7x: a specialized workflow triaging alerts for $0.69 each, against $3.42 for a single agent juggling 14 Skills. The data and the decision framework are both below.

Aaron Jewitt