Elastic Security has introduced extended protections for cloud environments by integrating open-source security tools from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem into its analytics platform, focusing initially on cloud workload protection and runtime security tools like Falco. This integration enhances security by providing edge detection, centralized analysis, and improved contextualization of alerts, allowing security teams to effectively correlate events across various environments. The solutions offer flexible integration options through Falcosidekick and Elastic Agent, normalizing data into the Elastic Common Schema for seamless analysis. Highlighting the power of open source, the initiative aims to foster innovation and customization, creating a continuously evolving security solution for modern cloud infrastructures, with plans to expand integrations to include additional CNCF tools like Tetragon and KubeArmor in future releases.