Elastic named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025

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Natalie Blake

June 24, 2025

We’re excited to share that Elastic has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025.

At Elastic, we believe security starts with the data. Elastic Security enables teams to detect, investigate, and respond to threats at scale, without lock-in or limits — powered by the speed and flexibility of Elasticsearch — and is grounded in a commitment to openness, innovation, and customer control.

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We believe this recognition reflects our engineering-led approach to solving security as a data problem — with AI-driven analytics, intuitive case management, and scalable deployment models that meet customers where they are.

Why Forrester recognized Elastic

In its evaluation, Forrester noted: “Elastic is an engineering-driven company that manages and analyzes data for security and observability use cases.”

We believe our placement as a Leader reflects Elastic’s continued commitment to solving security as a data problem — with AI innovation, open architecture, and analyst-first design. Key strengths of ours include:

• Advanced AI capabilities, such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and Attack Discovery, which accelerate alert triage and deliver context at speed
• Automatic Import for custom telemetry ingestion, removing the need for complex connectors or proprietary pipelines
• Open, community-driven detection engineering, with curated MITRE ATT&CK®-mapped rules and full transparency into detection logic
• Investigation tools like case management, graph visualizations, and timeline views that streamline analyst workflows
• A flexible economic model that removes paywalls, supports hybrid deployment, and scales with your mission — not your contract

Elastic users and customers consistently highlight our built-in security expertise, responsive support, and AI that augments — rather than replaces — analyst judgment.

Why this report matters to security professionals

The Forrester Wave™ is more than a vendor evaluation; it’s a strategic tool that helps security leaders make informed decisions about the platforms that power their operations.

In our opinion, Elastic stood out in this evaluation for addressing the core needs of today’s defenders:

• Operational efficiency: Elastic unifies SIEM, threat intel, XDR, and cloud security in one platform to reduce complexity and tool sprawl.
• AI with transparency: Our AI capabilities explain their logic and augment analyst workflows — never replacing their judgment.
• Cost control and flexibility: Elastic removes paywalls, supports hybrid environments, and enables deployments in any cloud, air-gapped, or on-prem setup.
• Built for security analysts: With federated search, timeline views, and open detection rules, Elastic is designed to match how security analysts think and work.
• Proven outcomes: Customers using Elastic have reduced MTTR by up to 99%,1 achieved better visibility across environments, and improved SOC performance without vendor lock-in.

We believe this recognition affirms that Elastic is delivering what modern security teams need: speed, visibility, and outcomes that scale.

Elastic Security: Protect everything, without compromise

Elastic Security unifies SIEM, security analytics, extended detection and response (XDR), cloud monitoring, entity analytics, SOC automation, and actionable security data lakes — all in one powerful platform. It’s shaped by real-world use, refined by a global security community, and purpose-built to support:

• AI-powered detection engineering and real-time alert correlation
• Federated search across object stores, cloud, and on-prem environments
• Open rules and telemetry ingestion from any source
• Case management that supports collaboration with images, timelines, and file attachments
• Cloud-native protection through CSPM and CWPP capabilities
• Built-in response orchestration, including host isolation, file retrieval, and integrations with tools like Microsoft Defender and SentinelOne

We’ve also made transparency a foundational value: All detection rules are open source, AI suggestions are traceable, and deployment can happen in any environment — SaaS, hybrid, or air-gapped. Elastic is free and open to start, so you can experiment, scale, and defend.

Accelerating security and AI innovation

We’re continuing to invest in bringing powerful, practical security solutions to our customers:

• Elastic has both partnered directly with SOAR providers for easy delivery and integration for our customers and recently acquired Keep to build native automation functionality into the Elasticsearch Platform.
• A five-year strategic collaboration agreement with AWS extends our leadership in bringing AI-native security experiences to more customers at scale.
• Our Elastic Security Labs team continues to contribute curated rules and detection logic across the MITRE ATT&CK framework — reviewed, version-controlled, and refined in collaboration with a thriving community.

This is the platform of choice for organizations like KPN, UOL, Informatica, and global Fortune 500 companies — reducing MTTR by up to 99%,1 replacing tool sprawl, and delivering full MITRE ATT&CK coverage at a lower total cost of ownership.

Learn more about how customers use Elastic Security to power modern security operations.

Read the full report

The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025 is now available. Read the report.

Explore how Elastic Security helps defenders do more with data — faster, and without compromise.

Sources:

1. Elastic, “ The Texas A&M University System protects students, emergency responders, and leading research institutions with Elastic Security.”

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