Elastic, widely known as the Search AI company, has been positioned as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Software 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc #US52997325, September 2025).

According to IDC, Elastic’s search-driven foundation continues to distinguish it in the XDR landscape. By bringing together SIEM, XDR, and cloud security within a single platform and maintaining transparent licensing, Elastic enables security teams to streamline data ingestion, speed up investigations, and apply explainable AI effectively. For security operations centers (SOCs) that want to simplify their environment without sacrificing advanced detection and response, IDC highlighted Elastic as a standout choice.

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Elastic Security’s recognition underscores its value as an agentic AI-driven, open, and unified SIEM and XDR solution. The platform combines powerful AI with flexible ingestion models and an open security approach, making it scalable for diverse enterprise needs.

“Today’s enterprises are highly distributed – spanning Windows, macOS, Linux endpoints, Kubernetes clusters, on-premises infrastructure, and edge devices,” said Mike Nichols, Vice President of Product Management, Security at Elastic. “What truly matters is context. Elastic unifies all these environments in a single platform, where data flows seamlessly, AI and analytics run natively, and teams can detect and respond faster. Plus, our endpoint protection is included at no extra cost, because strong defense should be standard, not optional.”

The IDC MarketScape also pointed to Elastic’s federated search capabilities as a key differentiator. Unlike many competitors, Elastic executes queries in real time through Osquery as data is ingested, ensuring that searches take place where the data resides.

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Highlights from the IDC Report

  • Extensive Data Integrations: More than 400 pre-built connectors for popular data sources, plus ingestion via syslog, APIs, files, cloud storage (Amazon S3, Azure Blob), and custom Elastic Agent or Logstash pipelines.
  • Comprehensive Licensing: All features – including user behavioral analytics, integrated threat intelligence, endpoint protection, cloud detection and response, and digital assistant functionality – are bundled in the core Elastic Security license.
  • Endpoint Defense: Elastic Defend delivers behavioral analytics, deception techniques, and preventive countermeasures. Against ransomware, it monitors suspicious process behavior, rapid encryption, and filesystem manipulation in real time.
  • AI-Powered Assistant: Security teams gain a digital assistant that recommends priority investigations and can answer natural-language queries.

This recognition follows Elastic’s recent success in the AV-Comparatives 2025 Endpoint Prevention and Response (EPR) evaluation, where the company outperformed leading competitors in threat prevention. Together, these independent validations highlight Elastic’s momentum in delivering a unified security platform that excels in both prevention and response.

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