Report recognizes Elastic's strong SIEM-replacement features, open data architecture, AI innovation, and endpoint protection

Elastic (NYSE:ESTC), the Search AI Company, today announced that it has been named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Extended Detection And Response Platforms, Q2 2026. The report recognized Elastic Security's SIEM-replacement capabilities, open data architecture, AI innovation, and endpoint protection. Access the complimentary report here.

Elastic Security is an agentic security operations platform that unifies SIEM, XDR, and native automation. Elastic's native endpoint protection offers tangible efficacy against real-world attack scenarios. Elastic Security is the only vendor to achieve 14 consecutive months of 100% rates in AV-Comparatives' Malware and Real-World Protection Tests. The Forrester Wave assessment notes that Elastic's strategy envisions an open, agentic SOC that will automate operations.

Elastic's vendor profile in the report states the following:

Elastic's SIEM-replacement features are strong, as it ingests a wide range of telemetry at scale, including from its endpoint agent, enabling security teams to correlate across cloud, endpoint, identity, application, and network data without siloed tools. Its open data formats and core engines, strong training content, and flexible data management make it heavily customizable.
Flexibility is a differentiator: Elastic is a good fit for organizations looking for– and that have the resources to support– a tool built for maximum flexibility across data ingestion, analytics, and AI. Security teams can ingest telemetry from virtually any source, tailor detections to their unique environment and risk profile, and build workflows aligned with existing processes rather than adapting to rigid platform constraints. Detection engineers can move faster, reduce vendor lock-in, and create security operations experiences that fit their organization.
Open, agentic SOC automates operations: Elastic demonstrates a strong commitment to innovation, with a focus on AI features, such as Attack Discovery and Automatic Migration. Attack Discovery correlates related alerts into higher-confidence attack narratives so analysts focus on real incidents rather than undifferentiated alert queues, while Automatic Migration moves dashboards and detection rules from legacy SIEMs into Elastic without rewriting rules.

"We believe every security team deserves access to proven endpoint capability, regardless of budget or team size," said Mike Nichols, general manager, Security, Elastic. "This Forrester recognition validates what our customers already know: the endpoint detection included in our agentic security platform works. No separate license. No add-on. Enterprise-grade protection, accessible to everyone."

Elastic Security runs on the same Elasticsearch platform as observability and search workloads, so security teams can correlate across operational and security telemetry without moving data across tools. The Elastic Security MCP App enables alert triaging, threat hunting, and case management directly within the tools analysts already use, including Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, VS Code Copilot, and Cursor.

For more information, read The Forrester Wave™: Extended Detection And Response Platforms, Q2 2026 report and blog.

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Elastic (NYSE:ESTC), the Search AI Company, integrates its deep expertise in search technology with artificial intelligence to help everyone transform all of their data into answers, actions, and outcomes. Elastic's Search AI Platform — the foundation for its search, observability, and security solutions — is used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500. Learn more at elastic.co.

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