Integrating Microsoft Defender for Endpoint data with Elastic Security enhances threat detection, investigation, and response by providing a unified platform that combines endpoint insights with contextualized data from networks, cloud environments, and identity systems. This integration addresses the limitations of endpoint data alone, which can lack the broader context needed for comprehensive threat mitigation. Elastic Security leverages AI-driven analytics and machine learning to deliver advanced threat detection and response capabilities, enabling security teams to operationalize Microsoft Defender for Endpoint telemetry alongside signals from other security domains. This approach reduces tool sprawl and costs while enhancing visibility across an organization’s entire attack surface. By offering features such as prebuilt detection rules, customizable analytics, AI-assisted investigations, and centralized dashboards, Elastic Security ensures that security operations centers can effectively correlate alerts, accelerate investigations, and respond to sophisticated threats. Additionally, Elastic Security supports long-term data retention and advanced analytics, allowing for historical threat hunting and forensic analysis, while also offering the flexibility to integrate with Elastic Defend for endpoints not covered by Microsoft Defender. This holistic security approach fosters resilient security operations and a consistent security posture across hybrid environments.