Elastic Cloud Security

Elastic Cloud Security is an integrated cloud-native application protection and posture management solution built into Elastic Security, designed to protect multi-cloud environments, container clusters, and cloud workloads against misconfigurations and runtime attacks. It provides agentless posture assessment, continuous compliance monitoring, and lightweight runtime workload defense across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

The platform connects via cloud provider APIs for agentless posture evaluations and utilizes the Elastic Defend agent for deep, host-level container and virtual machine runtime monitoring. It integrates seamlessly with CI/CD build pipelines, infrastructure-as-code scanners, and enterprise issue trackers like Jira to detect vulnerabilities before cloud resources are provisioned. Common enterprise use cases include scanning cloud environments against CIS benchmarks, monitoring Kubernetes cluster configurations, detecting unauthorized runtime container modifications, and correlating cloud audit logs with endpoint security telemetry.

By combining cloud posture management with real-time runtime workload protection inside the unified Elastic Security platform, Elastic Cloud Security eliminates the need for separate CNAPP point tools. Security practitioners gain comprehensive attack surface visibility, automated compliance reporting for SOC 2 and PCI DSS, and instant threat detection across ephemeral cloud assets. The solution hardens cloud infrastructure, accelerates DevSecOps collaboration, and provides dependable security across multi-cloud enterprise deployments.