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

2026-05-25T07:23:33Zba395ce57ba3c5533dd6160562376855310e0253c4c6664b54ae191818266178
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Collection of Elastic blog posts (Mar–May 2026) covering the shifting threat landscape driven by AI, agentic AI use cases and risks, and Elastic product updates. Key themes: AI arms race in cybersecurity; agent/agentic systems, Guardrails and OWASP guidance for LLMs; production AI features (Agent Builder, Workflows, Automatic Import, Attack Discovery); Elastic Stack releases (9.4 and 9.4.1) and upgrade guidance; security capabilities (SIEM Readiness, Cloud Detection & Response, Custom Threat Intelligence, detection engineering); integrations and partnerships (Google Cloud, Dell/NVIDIA, Amazon/

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