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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

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

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

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

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

How Elasticsearch ES|QL COMPLETION turns noisy curl and wget rules into high-fidelity cloud security alerts

Elastic InfoSec tested this detection rule pattern on their own cloud fleet, filtering noisy curl and wget events with deterministic logic and LLM triage so only genuine threats reach an analyst.

Aaron Jewitt

Inside Elastic InfoSec's agentic SOC: cutting alert triage from 30 minutes to under 3

Elastic's InfoSec team built AI agents on Elastic Workflows that investigate every alert and assemble the case before an analyst ever opens it.

Aaron Jewitt

From vulnerability report to CVE draft in minutes: how Elastic automated security advisories with AI

How Elastic's security team built an AI agent with RAG against MITRE's CWE and CAPEC catalogues to draft CVE advisories from raw vulnerability reports, including the full prompt and crawler configs.

Paul McCann

Elastic Security MCP App: Interactive security operations inside your AI Tools

Elastic Security is the first security vendor to ship an interactive UI in AI tools. Triage alerts, hunt threats, correlate attack chains, and open cases, all from inside your AI conversation.

David Elgut

AI-generated hunting leads: The hunt starts before you ask the question

Introducing AI-generated hunting leads, proactive, environment-aware threat hypotheses powered by Elastic Entity analytics and integrated AI reasoning.

Erik Huang

Elastic Workflows GA: automation where your security data already lives

Elastic Workflows is generally available in 9.4, bringing production-ready security automation with deeper case management integration, human-in-the-loop support, natural language authoring, and more.

Tinsae Erkailo