Elastic Security Integrations Roundup: Q1 2026
Elastic has released nine new third-party integrations for Q1 2026, enhancing visibility across macOS, cloud environments, email security, and SIEM platforms. These integrations provide out-of-the-box data normalization, prebuilt dashboards, and AI-driven analysis capabilities to streamline security operations and threat detection.
Key Takeaways
- Elastic announced nine new security integrations spanning cloud, endpoint, email, identity, and SIEM for Q1 2026.
- The new macOS Security Events integration complements Elastic Defend by capturing OS-level visibility like login/logout, account changes, and diagnostic logs using predicate-based filters.
- IBM QRadar integration facilitates alert ingestion and supports automated SIEM migration using semantic search and generative AI.
- AWS Security Hub findings are now pulled into Elastic in OCSF format and normalized to ECS for immediate ES|QL searchability.
Affected Systems
- macOS
- AWS
- IBM QRadar
- Proofpoint Essentials
Detection Availability
- YARA Rules: No
- Sigma Rules: No
- Snort/Suricata Rules: No
- KQL Queries: No
- Splunk SPL Queries: No
- EQL Queries: No
- Other Detection Logic: No
- Platforms: Elastic Security
The article announces new data integrations that include prebuilt dashboards and normalize data for use with Elastic's ES|QL and EQL, but does not provide specific detection rules or queries in the text.
Detection Engineering Assessment
EDR Visibility: High — The macOS Security Events integration specifically enhances OS-level visibility, complementing existing EDR (Elastic Defend) telemetry with login, account creation, and diagnostic logs. Network Visibility: Medium — Integrations like Proofpoint Essentials and AWS Security Hub provide network, email, and cloud-level visibility. Detection Difficulty: Easy — The integrations provide out-of-the-box normalization (ECS/OCSF) and prebuilt dashboards, significantly lowering the barrier to detection engineering for these data sources.
Required Log Sources
- macOS Unified Logs
- AWS Security Hub findings
- IBM QRadar offense records
- Proofpoint Essentials events
Hunting Hypotheses
| Hypothesis | Telemetry | ATT&CK Stage | FP Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monitor macOS unified logs for anomalous privilege escalation attempts or login failures using the new macOS Security Events integration. | macOS Unified Logs | Privilege Escalation | Medium |
Control Gaps
- Siloed data in vendor consoles (e.g., AWS Security Hub, DSPM consoles) without centralized SIEM integration.
Key Behavioral Indicators
- macOS authentication activity
- macOS process execution
- macOS file system changes
False Positive Assessment
- Low
Recommendations
Immediate Mitigation
- Review and deploy relevant Elastic integrations for existing security tools (e.g., macOS, AWS, Proofpoint) to centralize telemetry.
Infrastructure Hardening
- Enable predicate-based filters on macOS endpoints to capture security-relevant events without overwhelming log storage.
User Protection
- Integrate email security telemetry (Proofpoint Essentials, Ironscales) into the SIEM for unified phishing and malware visibility.
Security Awareness
- Train SOC analysts on using Elastic's AI Assistant and ES|QL for natural-language querying and threat hunting across the newly integrated data sources.
