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Making Waves: Elastic named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave: Extended Detection And Response Platforms, Q2 2026

Elastic has been named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave: Extended Detection And Response Platforms, Q2 2026 report. The report recognized our SIEM-replacement capabilities, open data architecture, AI innovation, and endpoint protection. Here's what Forrester found and why we believe it reflects what we've been building.

Real Time Threat Detection

Weekly cyberattacks now average 1,968 per week, up 18% year over year and 70% since 2023, while security teams still take an average of 277 days to identify and contain a breach, according to SentinelOne's cybersecurity statistics roundup. That combination changes the meaning of “real time” in security. It no longer means a dashboard that updates quickly. It means building detection and response so attackers don't get months of freedom between first access and containment.

Stop building security dashboards nobody reads

On this episode of Masters of Data, we dig into one of data's most contested formats: the dashboard. We explore why so many dashboards get built and never opened, tracing the shift from in-person SOC culture (big screens, shared visibility, immediate feedback) to the remote-work era of folders full of charts no one reviews. The conversation covers North Star metrics, the tension between practitioner and leadership dashboards, and the uniquely tricky problem of security metrics that can look green while a threat actor has quiet dwell time in your environment.

Build Effective Incident Response Playbooks a How-To Guide

The alert hits after hours. A suspicious sign-in turns into endpoint detections, then someone in leadership asks whether customer data is involved, and within minutes the team is juggling Slack threads, ticket updates, legal questions, and a half-dozen console tabs. Most organizations don't fail here because people don't care. They fail because the response lives in people's heads, scattered docs, and outdated runbooks.

Ransomware Detection: Master Modern Strategies 2026

In 2024, ransomware was publicly disclosed in more than 5,600 attacks worldwide, with over 2,600 victims in the United States alone. The same reporting says the FBI's 2024 IC3 report logged 3,156 ransomware complaints, an 11.7% increase from the prior year, which is a useful reminder that this isn't a niche malware problem. It's a persistent operational risk that keeps showing up across sectors and environments (Fortinet's ransomware statistics summary).

Security Incident Response: A Guide for SOCs & CISOs

A breach doesn't become expensive only when systems go down. It becomes expensive when an organization spends months discovering what happened, who needs to decide, what evidence was lost, and which business services can't wait. According to IBM's 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report, the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.88 million in 2024, while the average time to identify a breach was 194 days.

Cloud Security Monitoring: A Complete Guide for 2026

Your cloud footprint probably grew faster than your monitoring program did. That's the normal path. A team starts with one cloud account, one logging service, and a few dashboards. Then come managed databases, containers, serverless functions, SaaS integrations, new identities, and temporary workloads that appear and disappear before anyone documents them. Security ends up with a pile of logs, a backlog of alerts, and a nagging suspicion that the dangerous activity isn't the stuff already visible.

Monitor Claude activity in Elastic Security

The agentic security operations platform As more people across an organization start using Claude, security and compliance teams end up asking the same questions they ask about any other system: Who’s using it? How are they signing in? Who’s changing the configuration? Claude’s Compliance API answers all of that. It tracks more than 300 event types across Claude Enterprise, Claude Team, and Claude Platform, and every event arrives with the actor, a timestamp, and where it came from.

EU data sovereignty and security operations: how Sumo Logic solves both at once

EU organizations in finance, healthcare, telco, and government face a real tension: keep the business running or satisfy an ever-growing stack of data regulations. Most end up choosing one over the other. Sumo Logic and AWS just changed that. At Infosecurity Europe 2026, Bill Peterson, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Sumo Logic, sat down with Sean Martin from ITSPmagazine to break down Sumo Logic's integration with the AWS European Sovereign Cloud — and what it means for security and operations teams operating in the EU. In this interview, Bill covers.

SIEM on Cloud: Modernizing Threat Detection for 2026

Your team already knows the pattern. The on-prem SIEM is still running, but it's become a bottleneck instead of a force multiplier. Cloud logs arrive late or in partial form. SaaS activity sits in separate consoles. Endpoint and identity events don't line up cleanly. Analysts burn time pivoting across tools, then still end up asking whether the alert is real. That's why the conversation around SIEM on cloud has changed. It's no longer about chasing a newer deployment model.