Elastic Named a Leader in 2025 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Extended Detection and Response

October 03, 2025 at 11:48 AM EDT

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

“Elastic’s strong foundation in search continues to differentiate it in the XDR market,” said Chris Kissel, research vice president, Security & Trust Products at IDC. “By unifying SIEM, XDR, and cloud security capabilities into a single platform with transparent licensing, Elastic enables security teams to streamline data ingestion, accelerate investigations, and leverage AI in meaningful, explainable ways. For SOCs seeking to reduce complexity without compromising on advanced detection and response, Elastic represents a compelling option.”

Elastic Security’s strong showing highlights its value as an agentic AI-driven, open, and unified SIEM and XDR at scale with powerful AI and relevance, flexible data ingestion, and an open and transparent security model.

“Enterprises today operate across Windows, macOS, and Linux endpoints, cloud-native Kubernetes workloads, on-premises servers and laptops, and devices like Microsoft Surface tablets – the edge is everywhere and it is a commodity,” said Mike Nichols, vice president, Product Management, Security at Elastic. “What matters is context: unifying all those edges in one platform where data is ingested seamlessly, analytics and AI apply natively, and teams can detect and respond without compromise. With Elastic, customers get exactly that, plus a proven endpoint solution included for free, because effective endpoint protection should be the expectation.”

The IDC MarketScape report notes Elastic’s strong search and federated search capabilities offer important differentiating features, including that Elastic queries are performed in real-time through Osquery when data is ingested, and that Elastic performs search where the data is.

Other key IDC findings:

Adjacent to Elastic's search capabilities is a thoughtful approach to data ingestion. Elastic offers 400+ out-of-the-box integrations for popular data sources and supports data ingestion through syslog, APIs, files, cloud object storage (e.g., Amazon S3, Azure Blob), and custom Elastic Agent or Logstash configurations.
All capabilities in Elastic Security are included in the license. All of Elastic's capabilities are in the Elastic Security Platform. User behavioral analytics, integrated threat intelligence, endpoint protection, cloud detection and response, and the use of a digital assistant are included at no additional cost.
Elastic Defend provides countermeasures. Elastic Defend provides real-time behavioral analytics, deception techniques, and active prevention controls. Against ransomware, Elastic will monitor the endpoint for rapid file encryption, suspicious process spawning, and file system tampering.
Elastic Security offers advanced digital assistant capabilities. In addition to an initial access screen showing what a security analyst should investigate first, users can simply ask a digital assistant.

The recognition follows Elastic outpacing top competitors in the AV-Comparatives 2025 Endpoint Prevention and Response (EPR) evaluation for threat prevention. These independent assessments highlight Elastic’s momentum in delivering both prevention and detection/response excellence within a unified security platform.

Additional Resources

Learn more about Elastic Security and our position in IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Extended Detection and Response here.

About IDC MarketScape:

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

About Elastic

Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, integrates its deep expertise in search technology with artificial intelligence to help everyone transform all of their data into answers, actions, and outcomes. Elastic's Search AI Platform — the foundation for its search, observability, and security solutions — is used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500. Learn more at elastic.co.

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