Elastic Security

· #352 most-used

SIEM + endpoint security — detect, investigate, respond at scale

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Elastic Security unifies SIEM, endpoint protection, and threat intelligence on the Elastic Stack — ingesting petabytes of logs, running detection rules across every data source, and surfacing alerts with full timeline context. Once connected, your agent opens and manages security cases, annotates investigations with enrichment data, tags incidents by threat actor or compliance scope, and routes alerts to the right responders in seconds. From phishing triage to compliance audit prep, every step that used to require manual queue-watching now runs on its own.

Average time saved
10 hours
per person · per month
≈ 1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Elastic Security automation eliminates manual case creation, comment posting, tag management, and status updates that pull analysts away from actual investigation work.

Schedule

What your Elastic Security agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

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Multi-app workflows

Elastic Security × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
9Apps spanned
~29 hrsSaved / week
6Personas served
For customer success
Featured4 apps

Alert-to-case in 60 seconds

When a security alert hits your inbox, your agent opens an Elastic Security case, tags it with the relevant MITRE ATT&CK technique, books a 30-minute response bridge on Google Calendar for the SOC lead, and pings the #security-critical Slack channel with a pre-built briefing — all before the analyst has navigated to their first tab. High-severity incidents go from raw signal to coordinated response in under a minute, every time.

~11 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·When a new critical security alert email arrives in Gmail
Result
Create a case with severity, rule name, and affected hostPost briefing to #security-critical channelBook response bridge for SOC lead
The win
Saved per run
45 min
Runs / week
~15×
Zero manual triage steps
Driven byCustomer Support Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    18 min / week
    Manual security review queue

    Sales ops manually checks Elastic Security for open incidents linked to a prospect before deal sign-off, taking 20+ minutes per deal.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Automated deal security gate

    The agent queries all cases tagged with the prospect's domain and posts a go/no-go summary to Slack in under 60 seconds.

  • Marketing
    13 min / week
    Email-based brand-threat intake

    Brand team forwards abuse reports to a shared inbox; a human manually creates a case in Elastic Security — typically hours later.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Instant brand-threat case creation

    When a HubSpot form flags a brand-abuse report, the agent creates the Elastic Security case and tags it before the analyst reads the email.

  • Customer Support
    18 min / week
    Manual alert-to-case handoff

    Support engineers copy alert details from the SIEM into a new Elastic Security case by hand, a 10-minute exercise per incident.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Automated alert-to-case pipeline

    The agent reads the alert email, opens the case with pre-filled fields, and notifies the team in Slack — the whole sequence takes under 90 seconds.

  • Human Resources
    7 min / week
    Manual access-violation case logging

    HR manually creates Elastic Security cases for insider-threat policy violations flagged in HR reviews, often a day after the event.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Same-day insider-threat case creation

    The agent creates the case the moment an HR workflow flags a policy breach, with the employee ID and policy reference pre-tagged.

  • Finance
    13 min / week
    Manual incident cost spreadsheet

    Finance pulls case data from Elastic Security by hand each month to estimate incident response costs for the risk ledger.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Automated incident cost capture

    On case closure, the agent maps response activity to hours, logs the cost estimate to the finance ledger in Notion, and closes the loop without manual data entry.

  • Operations
    25 min / week
    Manual compliance case audit

    Ops manually filters Elastic Security cases for compliance-scoped incidents each audit cycle — a two-hour exercise per audit.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Automated compliance case tagging and export

    The agent tags all cases touching regulated systems with the current audit cycle marker and writes the list to Notion in under two minutes.

  • Legal
    6 min / week
    Manual case history export for legal hold

    Legal requests a case history report from the SOC team, who exports it manually — usually a 48-hour turnaround.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    On-demand case activity export

    The agent retrieves the full activity summary for any case on demand and formats it as a legal-hold-ready timeline in seconds.

+ 100s of other Elastic Security automations
Average monthly
10 hrs / person / month
Average monthly
10 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
10 people
Hourly rate
$20 / hr
Hours saved / week
25
Hours saved / year
1,250
Annual ROI
$25,000

Based on Elastic Security's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~2.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug Elastic Security into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

The fastest path. Install the Kibana MCP server in one click; the agent reaches your Elastic Security environment through a permissioned handshake backed by Elastic's native API key security model. No tokens to rotate manually.

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Open the Apps tab

Find Elastic Security in the Apps library and click Connect. MCP via the Kibana server is selected by default.

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Authorise in Elastic Security

The agent prompts you to enter your Kibana base URL and an Elastic API key with the required privileges (cases_read, cases_all, connector_read). Generate the key in Kibana → Stack Management → API Keys.

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Test the connection

Actionist runs a read-only call to verify the handshake. You're ready.

Actions

15 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

6 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

Skills

Skills that pair with Elastic Security

Reusable agent skills that work well alongside this app.

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MCP servers that work with Elastic Security

Connect Actionist to MCP servers built for or around this app.

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FAQs

Questions about Elastic Security + Actionist

How do I connect Elastic Security to Actionist?
Open the Apps tab, find Elastic Security, and click Connect. The fastest path is MCP via the Kibana server — you'll provide your Kibana base URL and an Elastic API key with cases_all and connector_all privileges. Actionist runs a read-only verification call and you're live. Prefer direct REST? Use the API Key method instead and point Actionist at your Elasticsearch base URL.
What credentials does Actionist need for Elastic Security?
For the MCP path: an Elastic API key with cases_read, cases_all, and connector_read privileges, plus your Kibana base URL. For the API Key path: the same API key and the Elasticsearch base URL. Generate the key in Kibana → Stack Management → Security → API Keys. Scope it to the minimum privileges your workflows actually use — Actionist only calls what each action requires.
Can I combine Elastic Security with other apps in the same workflow?
Yes — that's where the real leverage is. Your agent can detect a critical alert in Gmail, open a case in Elastic Security, enrich it with threat-intel context, and notify the SOC lead in Slack, all in a single automated sequence. Common partners include Slack, Google Sheets, Notion, GitHub, and HubSpot. Any app in the Actionist library can be wired alongside Elastic Security.
What security workflows does Actionist handle with Elastic Security?
The most common automations: opening cases from incoming alerts (email, webhook, or SIEM rule), tagging cases with MITRE ATT&CK techniques or compliance scope, posting enrichment notes as comments, routing escalations to Slack or PagerDuty via connectors, building weekly coverage-gap reports, and capturing incident costs for finance. Anything that involves reading or writing Elastic Security cases or connectors can be automated.
Does Actionist support Elastic Security webhooks or real-time triggers?
Actionist ships with six Elastic Security event triggers — new alerts, severity escalations, case-status changes, endpoint-agent offline events, threat-indicator matches, and rule execution errors. These let your agent react the moment something significant happens in Elastic Security, rather than polling on a schedule.
How does the agent handle duplicate cases?
Before creating a new case, configure your workflow to call Retrieve all cases filtered by the alert ID or hostname. If a match exists, the agent skips creation and adds a comment to the existing case instead. This prevents the queue from filling with duplicates when the same alert fires multiple times — a common problem during attack campaigns that generate hundreds of related signals.
Can the agent manage case tags and classification at scale?
Yes. Add a tag to a case and Remove a tag from a case are both available actions. Your agent can apply MITRE ATT&CK technique tags when a detection rule fires, add compliance-scope markers like PCI-DSS or HIPAA when regulated systems are involved, and strip stale or incorrect tags when an investigation pivots. Batch tag operations across many cases are handled by looping Retrieve all cases and applying tags in sequence.
What is the Kibana MCP server and why is it the recommended connection?
The Kibana MCP server is an official integration layer that gives Actionist structured, permissioned access to your Elastic Security environment — cases, connectors, detection rules, and more — through Elastic's native API security model. It's recommended because it scopes access precisely to what you grant, avoids hardcoding credentials in automation scripts, and works with both Elastic Cloud and self-hosted deployments. You manage permissions in Kibana's API Keys panel, not in Actionist.