The AI arms race in cybersecurity: Why your SOC needs to evolve now

2026-05-24T19:23:40Z28ecbf816080148713fd92ccd3da22eaac718100facf98cecd4cfe9eb8f1b849
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What happened

Collection of Elastic blog posts covering developments across AI, security, observability, and platform releases. Key security-relevant items: guidance on the AI "arms race" and risks for SOCs and financial services; Elastic Security feature updates including SIEM Readiness (tech preview), native Workflows (automation/SOAR replacement), Agent Builder/agentic AI discussions, and GA of some production-ready AI capabilities (Automatic Import, Attack Discovery); a Custom Threat Intelligence integration; detection engineering and SIEM onboarding improvements; and the Elastic Stack 9.4.1 release (up

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2026-05-24T19:23:40Z
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