# Cyber Company Profiles: Elastic

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## At a Glance

- Website: [elastic.co](https://www.elastic.co)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/elastic
- Type: Security Operations, Detection Response, Threat Intelligence
- Also known as: Elastic N.V., Elasticsearch
- Market readiness: Established (27/40)
- Defensibility: Contested (14/21)
- Founded: 2012
- Last updated: 2026-09-17

## Executive Summary

This analysis is scoped to Elastic Security and Elastic SIEM.

Elastic sells Elastic Security, a platform that combines security information and event management, extended detection and response, and endpoint protection for enterprise and government security operations teams. Elastic was founded in 2012 and is listed on the NYSE. It names Bank Leumi, Texas A&M, Airtel and Mimecast among its Elastic Security customers. CISA, the US cybersecurity agency, funds a shared Elastic Security service for federal civilian agencies, and Elastic Cloud Hosted has FedRAMP High authorization. In its annual report, Elastic lists Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Google, Palo Alto Networks and Splunk as security competitors. Elastic Security is harder to replace for teams that have built their detections on it and for agencies relying on that authorization.

## Contents

- [Executive Summary](#executive-summary)
- [Sourced Details](#sourced-details)
- [Matrix Coverage](#matrix-coverage)
- [Market Readiness](#market-readiness)
- [Strategy Deep Dive](#strategy-deep-dive)
- [Sources](#sources)
- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

## Sourced Details

| Detail | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Search AI company whose Elastic Security line delivers SIEM, XDR, and endpoint protection as agentic security operations built on the Elasticsearch data platform. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2012 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | IPO (NYSE: ESTC), October 2018 | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Elastic Security | Agentic security operations platform spanning SIEM, XDR, and endpoint protection, with AI-driven detection, investigation, and response on the Elasticsearch data platform. |
| Elastic SIEM | Security information and event management with detection rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, autonomous triage and investigation, and native automation through Elastic Workflows. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [Cyber Defense Matrix](https://cyberdefensematrix.com) [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data | ✓ |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |
| Devices |  | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |  |
| Networks |  |  | ✓ |  |  |

Elastic Security uses AI to defend conventional logs, endpoints, and network telemetry through SIEM, XDR, and endpoint protection, and is mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix.

## Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

**Established (27/40)**

Analyzed 2026-09-17. Scope: Elastic Security (SIEM, XDR, endpoint).

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 3/5 | Elastic names a specific buyer, the security operations team. It also names a specific pain, the per-device fees, siloed tools, proprietary AI, and locked data its security page says the industry piled on as taxes. That framing is Elastic's own, and no reviewed independent source quantifies the pain, so the problem is clear but unquantified. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Capability Depth | 5/5 | AV-Comparatives, an independent tester, placed Elastic Security at the top of its 2026 business malware protection table at 100%, with zero false alarms on business software. It also blocked 399 of 400 real-world cases, level with Kaspersky and Bitdefender. SecurityBrief reports Forrester's highest possible scores for Elastic in 14 criteria, and the detection rules are open for inspection on GitHub, so depth is confirmed by more than one outside party. \[[s24](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s19](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Market Timing | 3/5 | SIEM is an established budget line. The demand evidence is Elastic's account of a CISA-funded shared SIEM service, plus 2026 IDC and Forrester evaluations that Elastic relays on its blog. Elastic's own pages carry all of those signals. No reviewed independent source documents buyer demand of more than one kind, which keeps timing at credible but unproven. \[[s12](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s23](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Team Credibility | 3/5 | Elastic Security Labs publishes research and free tools on a continuing basis, and Elastic maintains a public detection rules repository for Elastic Security. AV-Comparatives describes the Labs team feeding Elastic’s rules, models and threat intelligence, while noting that its product descriptions are based on information vendors provide. SecurityBrief quotes Forrester calling Elastic an engineering-driven company, a remark about the whole company rather than independent recognition of the Security team. \[[s22](#profile-analysis-sources), [s19](#profile-analysis-sources), [s24](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| GTM Proof | 3/5 | Elastic names many Elastic Security customers on its own pages, including Bank Leumi, California EDD, Airtel, Mimecast, and Texas A&M, and its blog describes CISA offering Elastic Security to federal civilian agencies. Those accounts are all in Elastic's voice, and Elastic reports one operating segment, so no reviewed source corroborates the security line's scale independently. \[[s26](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s12](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Funding Efficiency | 3/5 | Elastic Security 9.5 provides AI alert triage, and Elastic Security Labs describes a rule translation path from Microsoft Sentinel. Elastic reports one operating segment, so the security line's revenue and margin are undisclosed and its efficiency is unconfirmed. \[[s22](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Category Clarity | 4/5 | Buyers place Elastic Security in the SIEM and security analytics budget line. SecurityBrief reports a 2025 Forrester Leader placement, and Elastic's 10-K names Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Google, Palo Alto Networks, and Splunk as its security competitors. Elastic reports an IDC Leader placement and a 2025 Gartner Visionary placement. No reviewed source describes an analyst category named after or led by Elastic. \[[s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s23](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 | Customers build detections and SOC workflows on Elastic Security, and Elastic's Bank Leumi story calls its detection rules the backbone of the bank's security operations. AWS forked Elasticsearch into OpenSearch, Elastic's 10-K names five security competitors, and Elastic says its open architecture reduces switching cost, so that friction stops short of a structural moat. \[[s26](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |

### Business Risks

- Elastic's pitch for Elastic Security centers on pricing by compute and storage instead of per endpoint, so any of the five security competitors its 10-K names could blunt that difference by offering pricing without per-device fees.
- Elastic reports one operating segment, so a slowdown in Elastic Security could stay hidden inside company-wide results that buyers and investors track.
- Kibana has carried a critical code-execution flaw rated CVSS 9.9, so customers who run the stack must apply Elastic's security updates promptly.
- AWS forked Elasticsearch into OpenSearch after an Elastic license change.
- Elastic's federal story centers on CISA's shared SIEM service, so a CISA decision to wind down that service would remove a prominent public-sector reference for Elastic Security.

### Problem & Market

Elastic Security sells to security operations teams that detect, investigate, and respond to threats. Elastic frames the buyer's pain as costs the security industry piled on, naming per-device fees, siloed tools, proprietary AI, and locked data.

The category itself is established. SecurityBrief reports that Forrester named Elastic a Leader in its Q2 2025 evaluation of security analytics platforms, and Elastic's 10-K names the security vendors it competes with. The four-cost framing is Elastic's own. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities

Elastic Security combines SIEM, extended detection and response, endpoint security, cloud security, and built-in automation in one platform, according to Elastic's 10-K. Elastic says autonomous agents handle work from data ingestion through response while analysts handle judgment and approval, and Elastic Security 9.5 added AI triage of alerts.

The detection content is open to inspection. Elastic says it publishes more than 1,300 detection rules on GitHub, where the Detection Rules repository holds the rules for Elastic Security's detection engine, and those rules are mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.

Outside testing supports the endpoint component. In AV-Comparatives' 2026 business test, Elastic topped the malware protection table at 100% and blocked 399 of 400 real-world cases. SecurityBrief reports that Forrester gave Elastic the highest possible scores in 14 criteria. \[[s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s22](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s19](#profile-analysis-sources), [s24](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitive Positioning

Elastic Security competes for the SOC budget against established security vendors. Elastic's 10-K names Azure Sentinel from Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Google SecOps, Palo Alto Networks, and Splunk, owned by Cisco, as the security vendors it faces.

Elastic positions pricing and openness as its difference. It prices on the compute and storage a customer uses instead of per endpoint, publishes its detection rules, and says its open architecture reduces switching cost for customers moving in or out.

The engine beneath the product has already been forked. InfoQ reports that an Elastic license change prompted AWS to fork Elasticsearch into OpenSearch, which continues under the Apache 2.0 license, so rivals have a freely licensed engine derived from Elasticsearch. InfoQ also reports that Elastic announced two of its products would be licensed under the OSI-approved AGPL. \[[s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s10](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Go-to-Market & Traction

Elastic publishes a broad set of named Elastic Security customers. Its pages describe Bank Leumi deploying Elastic Security as its SIEM, California EDD prioritizing alerts across 80,000 monthly events, and Texas A&M replacing multiple tools, alongside Airtel, Mimecast, UOL, Proficio, and AHEAD.

Federal adoption runs through a CISA program. Elastic's blog says CISA launched a SIEM-as-a-service offering for federal civilian agencies featuring Elastic Security, that CISA fully funds it, and that a large civilian agency committed as its first tenant.

Elastic reports its results as one operating segment, so its filings give no revenue figure for Elastic Security. Elastic's company-wide results for its first quarter of fiscal 2027 report total revenue of $478 million, up 15% year over year. \[[s26](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s12](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Team & Credibility

Elastic Security Labs is the security line's clearest team signal. AV-Comparatives describes it as Elastic's internal threat research team whose findings feed detection rules, machine-learning models, and threat intelligence, and the Labs site publishes research and free tools for defenders.

Analyst commentary adds outside recognition. SecurityBrief quotes Forrester describing Elastic as an engineering-driven company with a consistent vision of solving security as a data problem, and reports Forrester's note that customers praise Elastic's built-in security expertise. Elastic links its endpoint protection to the Endgame acquisition in its blog. \[[s24](#profile-analysis-sources), [s22](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Trust Readiness

Elastic Security reaches federal buyers through an authorized cloud service. The FedRAMP Marketplace lists Elastic Cloud Hosted at Class D (High) as FedRAMP Certified as of 3/23/2026, and Elastic names AI-powered SIEM and endpoint detection and response among the agency uses it supports.

Elastic makes transparency part of its trust case. It describes its AI as model-agnostic and auditable across the SOC lifecycle, and it keeps the rules for its detection engine in a public GitHub repository.

Customers who run the stack take on a patching obligation. The Hacker News reported a Kibana prototype-pollution flaw rated CVSS 9.9 that allowed arbitrary code execution. Elastic fixed it in version 8.17.3, so operators need to track Elastic's security updates. \[[s17](#profile-analysis-sources), [s18](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s19](#profile-analysis-sources), [s11](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitors

| Company | Relationship | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Splunk | competes with | Named in Elastic's 10-K, as owned by Cisco, among the security vendors Elastic Security competes with for the same SOC budget. |
| Microsoft Sentinel | competes with | Named in Elastic's 10-K as Azure Sentinel, owned by Microsoft, among the security vendors Elastic Security competes with. |
| CrowdStrike | competes with | Named in Elastic's 10-K among the security vendors Elastic Security competes with. |
| Google SecOps | competes with | Named in Elastic's 10-K among the security vendors Elastic Security competes with. |
| Palo Alto Networks | competes with | Named in Elastic's 10-K among the security vendors Elastic Security competes with. |

## Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how [defensible](https://zeltser.com/scoring-security-product-strategy) it is against market forces and examining the [eight areas](https://zeltser.com/security-product-creation-framework) behind it.

### Defensibility

**Contested (14/21)**

Band guidance: reinforce or reposition. Analyzed 2026-09-17. Scope: Elastic Security (SIEM, XDR, endpoint).

Elastic Security runs on the Elasticsearch data platform that Elastic also sells for search and observability. Elastic publishes its detection rules on GitHub, and AWS forked Elasticsearch into OpenSearch after an Elastic license change, so both the rules and a descendant of the engine are publicly available. Leaving means migrating the detections, dashboards, and SOC workflows a customer built on the platform, and Elastic says its detections are portable. Elastic's Bank Leumi story calls its detection rules the backbone of the bank's security operations. Elastic Cloud Hosted also holds FedRAMP High authorization for federal agencies. Elastic Security is harder to displace in a SOC built around its detections and federal approvals than for a buyer comparing detection content alone.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 | Elastic Security is software the customer's team runs, with Elastic's agents handling work from ingestion through response while the customer's analysts handle judgment, verification, and approval, so the customer owns the security outcomes. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 | Leaving means migrating the detections, dashboards, and SOC workflows a customer built, and Elastic's Bank Leumi story calls its detection rules the backbone of the bank's security operations. Elastic says those detections are portable, publishes its rules, and ships tools that convert other SIEMs' rules, so the switching mechanism is documented while the cited record does not size a migration out. \[[s26](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s22](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Compliance Moat | 2/3 | The FedRAMP Marketplace lists Elastic Cloud Hosted as FedRAMP Certified at Class D (High). Elastic names AI-powered SIEM and endpoint detection and response among its agency uses, and CISA's shared SIEM service features Elastic Security. A rival would need a comparable federal authorization to take those agencies, and no reviewed source shows a mandate that ties them to Elastic. \[[s17](#deep-dive-sources), [s18](#deep-dive-sources), [s12](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 | Elastic says Elastic Security runs security reasoning over data at petabyte scale, and AV-Comparatives tested its endpoint protection against real-world and malware attacks. That combination is detection and systems work that takes years of specialized engineering. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s24](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Buyer Profile | 3/3 | Elastic Security's named buyers include Bank Leumi, California EDD, and CISA through its shared SIEM service for federal civilian agencies, regulated and government buyers attributed to the security line itself. \[[s26](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s12](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Layer | 2/3 | Elastic Security is a platform with application features for detection, investigation, and automation. It sits on the Elasticsearch data layer that Elastic's other solutions share, and the cited sources describe no other applications that depend on Elastic Security to run. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 1/3 | Elastic's detection rules sit in a public GitHub repository open to community review, and Elastic Security Labs publishes its research and tools freely. AV-Comparatives says that research feeds the threat intelligence the platform uses. The cited sources describe no retained non-public dataset, content licence, or granted patent for the line. \[[s19](#deep-dive-sources), [s23](#deep-dive-sources), [s24](#deep-dive-sources), [s22](#deep-dive-sources)\] |

### Strategic Market Segmentation

Elastic Security targets security operations teams in enterprises and government. Elastic's named customers include Bank Leumi in Israel, California EDD, Airtel, and Mimecast, and its blog describes CISA offering the product to federal civilian agencies.

Deployment flexibility widens that segment. Elastic's blog quotes IDC saying Elastic Security runs with feature parity across self-managed, hosted, serverless, and disconnected deployments, a fit for public sector, utility, and multinational buyers that SaaS-only products cannot serve directly. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s26](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s12](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities & AI Advantages

Elastic Security combines SIEM, extended detection and response, endpoint security, cloud security, and automation in one platform, per Elastic's 10-K. Elastic describes agents that handle work from data ingestion through response while analysts approve, and Elastic Security 9.5 provides AI triage of alerts.

Elastic frames its AI advantage as openness. It says its AI is model-agnostic and auditable across the SOC lifecycle, and that Elastic Security Labs research feeds its detection rules and AI agent skills.

Outside evaluations back the capability claims. AV-Comparatives' 2026 business test shows Elastic at 100% malware protection and 399 of 400 real-world cases blocked, and SecurityBrief reports Forrester's highest possible scores for Elastic in 14 criteria. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s22](#deep-dive-sources), [s24](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Sales Engagement & Go-to-Market

Elastic Security reaches federal agencies through a shared service, according to Elastic's blog, which says CISA offers Elastic Security to federal civilian agencies under a contract awarded through prime contractor ECS. Company-wide, Elastic's 10-K describes a sales-led motion aimed at strategic enterprise customers.

Customers already running Elasticsearch are one documented entry path. Elastic's Bank Leumi story says the bank already used Elasticsearch as a data lake before looking at Elastic's security solution to replace its incumbent SIEM. The reviewed sources document that path for this customer and do not measure how often it recurs.

Elastic also courts customers leaving other SIEMs. Its SIEM page describes Automatic Migration converting existing detection rules, and Elastic Security Labs describes translating Microsoft Sentinel rules into Elastic Security. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s12](#deep-dive-sources), [s26](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s22](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Pricing Model

Elastic prices Elastic Security on the compute and storage a customer uses instead of per endpoint. It calls per-device pricing a tax that forces coverage trade-offs and makes removing that tax central to its pitch.

Elastic says its SIEM offering has no rehydration fees or per-endpoint charges and is available in one platform under one contract. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Delivery & Operations

Customers choose where Elastic Security runs. Elastic says it deploys on premises, in the cloud, or in air-gapped environments without moving data, and AV-Comparatives notes support for restricted-network and air-gapped deployments.

The customer's team operates the product and approves its actions. Elastic describes agents that handle work through response while analysts handle judgment and approval, and in CISA's shared service CISA manages the Elastic Cloud environments for agencies.

AV-Comparatives groups Elastic with Cisco, CrowdStrike, and Trellix as powerful tools for larger organizations, and recommends outside expertise during planning and deployment because these tools require significant training and ongoing support. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s24](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s12](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Earning Customers' Trust

Elastic Security reaches federal agencies through an authorized cloud service. The FedRAMP Marketplace lists Elastic Cloud Hosted at Class D (High) as FedRAMP Certified as of 3/23/2026, and Elastic names AI-powered SIEM and endpoint detection and response among its agency uses.

Elastic makes auditability part of its trust case. It describes its AI as transparent and auditable, and it keeps the rules for its detection engine in a public GitHub repository.

Operators of the stack also take on a patching burden. The Hacker News reported a Kibana flaw rated CVSS 9.9 that allowed arbitrary code execution, fixed in version 8.17.3, so operators need to apply Elastic's security updates promptly. \[[s17](#deep-dive-sources), [s18](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s19](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning

Elastic Security shares one data platform with Elastic's search and observability solutions. Elastic's 10-K lists three solutions built on that platform, and Elastic's blog quotes IDC saying Elastic Common Schema and Elasticsearch let customers query security and operational data in one language.

Integrations and open schemas extend the platform. Elastic cites more than 400 prebuilt integrations, and says its open architecture reduces switching cost whether customers move in or out.

InfoQ reports that an earlier Elastic license change prompted AWS to fork Elasticsearch into OpenSearch, which continues under the Apache 2.0 license. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s10](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Team & Execution Capability

Elastic is a public company whose ordinary shares trade on the NYSE, and it reports security, search, and observability together as one operating segment in its 10-K.

Elastic Security Labs is the security-specific team signal. AV-Comparatives describes it as Elastic's internal threat research team feeding detection rules, models, and threat intelligence, and SecurityBrief quotes Forrester describing Elastic as an engineering-driven company. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s24](#deep-dive-sources), [s22](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources)\]

## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [Elastic Security: agentic security operations platform](https://www.elastic.co/security) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| f2 | [Wikipedia: Elastic NV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic_NV) | research | 2026-09-17 |
| f3 | [Elastic Recognized as a Leader in Security Analytics by Independent Research Firm](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250624686625/en/Elastic-Recognized-as-a-Leader-in-Security-Analytics-by-Independent-Research-Firm) | press | 2026-06-21 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

Cited from the Market Readiness section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Elastic: Elastic Security product page](https://www.elastic.co/security) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| s2 | [Elastic: SIEM product page](https://www.elastic.co/security/siem) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| s3 | [SecurityBrief Australia: Elastic named Leader in Forrester Wave for security analytics 2025](https://securitybrief.com.au/story/elastic-named-leader-in-forrester-wave-for-security-analytics-2025) | press | 2026-09-17 |
| s4 | [SEC EDGAR: Elastic N.V. Form 10-K, fiscal year ended April 30, 2026](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1707753/000170775326000018/estc-20260430.htm) | regulatory | 2026-09-17 |
| s5 | [SEC EDGAR: Elastic N.V. Form 8-K exhibit 99.1, first quarter fiscal 2027 results release](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1707753/000170775326000035/a27q1erex991.htm) | regulatory | 2026-09-17 |
| s6 | [Elastic: AI for security operations page](https://www.elastic.co/security/ai) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| s7 | [Elastic blog: Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave for Extended Detection and Response Platforms, Q2 2026](https://www.elastic.co/blog/forrester-wave-strong-performer-extended-detection-and-response-platforms-2026) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| s9 | [Elastic blog: Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide SIEM 2026](https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-leader-idc-marketscape-worldwide-siem-2026) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| s10 | [InfoQ: Elastic Returns to Open Source, Will the Community Follow?](https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/09/elastic-open-source-agpl/) | press | 2026-09-17 |
| s11 | [The Hacker News: Elastic Releases Urgent Fix for Critical Kibana Vulnerability](https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/elastic-releases-urgent-fix-for.html) | press | 2026-09-17 |
| s12 | [Elastic blog: CISA SIEM-as-a-Service offering featuring Elastic Security](https://www.elastic.co/blog/siem-as-a-service) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| s17 | [FedRAMP Marketplace: Elastic Cloud Hosted - High (package FR2523939103)](https://www.fedramp.gov/marketplace/products/FR2523939103/) | regulatory | 2026-09-17 |
| s18 | [Elastic blog: Elastic Cloud Hosted FedRAMP High authorization](https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-cloud-hosted-fedramp-high-authorization) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| s19 | [GitHub: elastic/detection-rules repository](https://github.com/elastic/detection-rules) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| s22 | [Elastic Security Labs: research home page](https://www.elastic.co/security-labs) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| s23 | [Elastic blog: Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM](https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-visionary-gartner-magic-quadrant-siem) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| s24 | [AV-Comparatives: Business Security Test H1 2026 (March to June)](https://av-comparatives.org/tests/business-security-test-2026-march-june/) | research | 2026-09-17 |
| s26 | [Elastic: Bank Leumi customer story](https://www.elastic.co/customers/bank-leumi) | official | 2026-09-17 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

Cited from the Strategy Deep Dive section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Elastic: Elastic Security product page](https://www.elastic.co/security) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| s2 | [Elastic: SIEM product page](https://www.elastic.co/security/siem) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| s3 | [SecurityBrief Australia: Elastic named Leader in Forrester Wave for security analytics 2025](https://securitybrief.com.au/story/elastic-named-leader-in-forrester-wave-for-security-analytics-2025) | press | 2026-09-17 |
| s4 | [SEC EDGAR: Elastic N.V. Form 10-K, fiscal year ended April 30, 2026](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1707753/000170775326000018/estc-20260430.htm) | regulatory | 2026-09-17 |
| s6 | [Elastic: AI for security operations page](https://www.elastic.co/security/ai) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| s7 | [Elastic blog: Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave for Extended Detection and Response Platforms, Q2 2026](https://www.elastic.co/blog/forrester-wave-strong-performer-extended-detection-and-response-platforms-2026) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| s9 | [Elastic blog: Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide SIEM 2026](https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-leader-idc-marketscape-worldwide-siem-2026) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| s10 | [InfoQ: Elastic Returns to Open Source, Will the Community Follow?](https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/09/elastic-open-source-agpl/) | press | 2026-09-17 |
| s11 | [The Hacker News: Elastic Releases Urgent Fix for Critical Kibana Vulnerability](https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/elastic-releases-urgent-fix-for.html) | press | 2026-09-17 |
| s12 | [Elastic blog: CISA SIEM-as-a-Service offering featuring Elastic Security](https://www.elastic.co/blog/siem-as-a-service) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| s17 | [FedRAMP Marketplace: Elastic Cloud Hosted - High (package FR2523939103)](https://www.fedramp.gov/marketplace/products/FR2523939103/) | regulatory | 2026-09-17 |
| s18 | [Elastic blog: Elastic Cloud Hosted FedRAMP High authorization](https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-cloud-hosted-fedramp-high-authorization) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| s19 | [GitHub: elastic/detection-rules repository](https://github.com/elastic/detection-rules) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| s22 | [Elastic Security Labs: research home page](https://www.elastic.co/security-labs) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| s23 | [Elastic blog: Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM](https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-visionary-gartner-magic-quadrant-siem) | official | 2026-09-17 |
| s24 | [AV-Comparatives: Business Security Test H1 2026 (March to June)](https://av-comparatives.org/tests/business-security-test-2026-march-june/) | research | 2026-09-17 |
| s26 | [Elastic: Bank Leumi customer story](https://www.elastic.co/customers/bank-leumi) | official | 2026-09-17 |

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