Deciding between Elastic and MDE?

Elastic Security
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Why elastic and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint?

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Hey there. Thanks for your interest in Elastic Security. Here are some Elastic Security for Endpoint (and XDR) highlights!

  • Security is a data challenge: As the leading Search AI platform, Elastic revolutionizes the storage and retrieval of security data. With advanced technologies like Searchable Snapshots and our data mesh architecture, we ensure analysts have timely access to the critical data they need.

  • Comprehensive threat visibility: With hundreds of integrations and the AI-driven Automatic Import feature, you can seamlessly onboard all types of data from various sources, expanding your visibility across your organization.

  • Elastic Securityʼs AI-driven security analytics correlates data across all sources to uncover sophisticated threats that often evade detection by individual security solutions. Our library of hundreds of prebuilt rules, mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK® matrix, combined with proprietary research and detection content from Elastic Security Labs, helps separate the signal from the noise so that you can focus on actual threats. We also provide more than 75 machine learning detection rules to automatically detect anomalies across numerous security domains like suspicious user or host activity.

  • To ensure transparency and trust, all of our detection logic is openly accessible, allowing you to fully understand and validate our approach.

  • Elastic Defend, our on-host protection provided by Elastic Security, offers deep visibility into endpoint telemetry. It delivers robust protection for traditional endpoints — laptops, desktops, servers, as well as cloud workloads. Elasticʼs unified agent defends against malware, ransomware, and advanced threats on endpoint, while also allowing the ingestion of network telemetry and security events from endpoints, including Windows Events, Sysmon, and Auditd logs. (Elastic security also recently excelled in the AVComparatives Malware Protection Test)

  • Some protections highlights:

  1. Memory signatures: improved ability to detect fileless threats residing in memory

  2. Kernel call stacks: much better fidelity for behavioral protections

  3. Kernel ETW: improved efficacy on in-memory, evasion, and exploitation techniques

  4. Vulnerable Driver protection: prevents use of drivers to tamper with endpoint

  5. Reputation Service: more threat coverage, with fewer false positives