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DYNOWIPER: Destructive Malware Targeting Poland's Energy Sector
Learn how Elastic Defend's ransomware protection successfully detects and prevents DYNOWIPER execution using canary file monitoring.

Automating GOAD and Live Malware Labs
Stop building labs by hand. Automate the deployment of a fully instrumented Purple Team range using Ludus and Elastic Security. Spin up infrastructure, execute attacks, and validate detection rules in a single, repeatable workflow.

The Engineer's Guide to Elastic Detections as Code
This post details the latest evolution of Elastic Security's Detections as Code (DaC) framework, including its development timeline, current feature highlights, and tailored implementation examples.

From Alert Fatigue to Agentic Response: How Workflows and Agent Builder Close the Loop
Attempting to chase individual alerts is a losing strategy. To succeed, we have to move beyond simple automation scripts and into the era of Agentic AI.

From Qradar to Elastic: Automate your Detection Rule Migration
Today, we are excited to announce a major expansion to our Automatic Migration feature that changes that narrative. In Elastic Security 9.3, we are introducing Automatic Migration support for QRadar detection rules (now in Tech Preview), joining our existing Splunk translation capabilities to further expedite your journey to Elastic Security. Let's take a closer look at what's supported.

How Elastic Infosec Optimizes Defend for Cost and Performance
This article details the internal Elastic Infosec team's process to optimize our endpoint data collection using Event Filtering and Advanced Policy Settings in Elastic Defend.

From Hypothesis to Action: Proactive Threat Hunting with Elastic Security
Elastic Security is designed to enable hypothesis-driven threat hunting at speed and scale. By unifying security telemetry and enabling analytics across clusters, threat hunters can ask complex questions across all their data, correlate signals, and validate hypotheses quickly without manual data stitching.

Automating detection tuning requests with Kibana cases
Learn how to automate detection rule tuning requests in Elastic Security. This guide shows how to add custom fields to Cases, create a rule to detect tuning needs, and use a webhook to create a frictionless feedback loop between analysts and detection engineers.

Time-to-Patch Metrics: A Survival Analysis Approach Using Qualys and Elastic
In this article, we describe how we applied survival analysis to vulnerability management (VM) data from Qualys VMDR, using the Elastic Stack.

Agentic Frameworks Summary
Agentic systems require security teams to balance autonomy with alignment, ensuring that AI agents can act independently while remaining goal-consistent and controllable .

