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Financial institutions that want to deliver greater personalization need to create complete and accessible customer data profiles. Learn more about developing and activating those insights through tailored user experiences and search solutions.

If the data exists, why is personalization so hard?

How Elastic helps personalization

Customer 360 systems of engagement

Tailored website and application search experiences

Machine Learning helps detect and predict. That’s worth millions

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Banks are enabling personalization with Elastic — your industry can, too

Governments around the globe are looking for ways to balance books while also answering the call to improve citizen engagement and trust through enhanced digital service delivery. But how can they achieve both?

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Make the most of your mainframe and data with an application speed layer

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How governments can generate mainframe savings and delight users by "freeing their data"

Get a glimpse of the newest report from Elastic Security Labs: the 2025 State of Detection Engineering at Elastic! 

A dedication to detections

Behind the scenes

The discussion continues

The 2025 State of Detection Engineering at Elastic explores how we create, maintain, and assess our SIEM and EDR rulesets. 

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Elastic Security Labs provides an under-the-hood look at its detection engineering processes

Traditional banking systems can’t keep up with GenAI expectations. Learn how Elastic enables banks to deliver smarter search, hyper-personalization, and real-time support using semantic AI and unified data.

The GenAI opportunity — and why most banks aren’t ready

Smarter search, support, and personalization in practice

Customer spotlight: EY

Where GenAI is going next in financial services

Watch the full session: From keyword search to context understanding

See how Elastic and generative AI are changing banking, from personalized services to context-aware search and smarter customer support.

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Smarter banking experiences: GenAI and semantic search in action

Learn about the new Privileged Access Detection package, available in tech preview in Kibana. The integration includes ingest pipelines, transforms, ML jobs, and dedicated dashboards to help teams efficiently investigate suspicious privileged access.

Introduction to Privileged Access Detection

Our approach

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Data preparation

Featurization

Machine learning

Getting started

Step 1: Installing the package

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Step 2: Configuring transforms and ingest pipeline

Step 3: Starting anomaly detection jobs

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Step 4: Enabling Security Detection rules 

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Start analyzing the anomaly detection alerts

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Wrapping up

The new advanced detection analytics package to detect privileged access activity

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Detecting privileged access activity: A new Kibana integration

Attackers use C2 channels to stealthily exfiltrate data, blending it with normal network traffic. This blog explores how to detect T1041 - Exfiltration Over C2 Channel using Elastic’s ES|QL queries, uncovering covert data theft.

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Understanding the technique

Data sources to optimize the hunt

Threat hunting with ES|QL queries

The next challenge: Stay vigilant

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Hunting with Elastic Security: Exfiltration over C2 channel

Uncover malicious script execution with ES|QL. This blog walks through detecting interpreter abuse (PowerShell, Bash, Python) using ECS-aligned data and practical queries. Start your threat hunting journey with the power of the Search AI Platform.

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Hunting with Elastic Security: Detecting command and scripting interpreter execution

Elastic Security integrates with MDE data to enhance visibility, threat detection, and response. Additional features include Elastic AI Assistant, which uses contextual AI to accelerate investigations by providing explanations and recommendations.

Integrating Microsoft Defender for Endpoint with Elastic Security

Direct MDE integration

Alerts from Microsoft Defender for Endpoint integration

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Microsoft 365 Defender integration

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts from Microsoft 365 Defender integration

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Threat detection with Elastic’s AI-driven security analytics

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Investigate MDE data with Elastic Security

Elastic AI Assistant: Accelerating investigations with AI-driven insights

Elastic AI Assistant triaging a MDE alert

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Attack Discovery: Automated threat correlation

Elastic Attack Discovery assisting with MDE malware alert

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Interactive dashboards and visualizations

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Taking action on MDE alerts

Long-term visibility and advanced analytics

Reducing blindspots with Elastic Defend 

Achieving unified, resilient security operations

Get started with Elastic Security

Enhance your threat detection, investigation, and response by integrating Microsoft Defender for Endpoint data with Elastic Security.

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From endpoint to XDR: Operationalize Microsoft Defender for Endpoint data in Elastic Security

Elastic is excited to announce general availability of Elastic Cloud Serverless on Google Cloud. Built on the industry-first Search AI Lake architecture, it combines vast storage, low-latency querying, and advanced AI capabilities. 

Start and scale quickly with Elastic Cloud Serverless on Google Cloud

Getting started with Elastic Cloud Serverless on Google Cloud

What’s next?

Elastic Cloud Serverless provides the fastest way to start and scale security, observability, and search solutions — without managing infrastructure. 

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Elastic Cloud Serverless now generally available on Google Cloud

BBVA reimagined how data is accessed across its banking ecosystem using Elastic. Learn how the bank unified services, scaled to 45B+ data points, and now delivers nearly 20 years of history in milliseconds.

From siloed services to a single source of truth

Scaling search to power global operations

Customer spotlight: E*TRADE

Building for the future

See how search becomes your competitive edge

BBVA transformed customer experience and operational insight by using Elastic to unify 45B+ data points across 50+ banking services, with sub-second response times.

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How a global bank turned a search engine into its data backbone

Generative AI is reshaping how banks interact with customers, from smarter support to real-time fraud detection. Learn how FSIs are turning private data into secure, conversational experiences with GenAI.

Why banks are moving fast on GenAI

GenAI use cases transforming financial services

Elastic's role in secure, conversational banking AI

Watch the full session: GenAI in action for banking

Discover how GenAI is helping banks move from rigid systems to conversational, intuitive customer experiences while driving speed, insight, and fraud detection.

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When your bank understands you: How GenAI is changing financial services

In 8.18, Elastic Defend’s default configuration has been improved to lower how much event data is generated by up to 70%. In addition, process descendant event filters now give users a powerful new way to limit Elastic Defend’s data volume.

Impact of Elastic Defend improvements

Comparison between 8.13 and 8.18 event volume

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What’s new in Elastic Defend

Looking back: 8.14 and 8.15

Today: 8.18

Try it out!

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Less noise, more signal: How Elastic Defend slashed event volume

Discover how financial institutions can unlock AI’s full potential with retrieval augmented generation (RAG), vector search, and Better Binary Quantization — delivering smarter insights, cost efficiency, and real-time decision-making at scale.

Get your data foundation right: The key to AI success in financial services

It’s all about data

Retrieval augmented generation leads the way

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Introducing BBQ: Better Binary Quantization for AI-driven efficiency

Operationalizing data for AI success in financial services

Learn more about building RAG systems using Elasticsearch:

Learn how financial institutions can harness RAG, vector search, and Elastic’s Better Binary Quantization to drive AI efficiency, reduce costs, and deliver real-time, accurate insights at scale.

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Powering the future of financial services with AI-driven intelligence

Elasticsearch 9.0 and 8.18 deliver a generally available and faster version of Elasticsearch.  This version outperforms OpenSearch with a 5x improvement. 

Serving Better Binary Quantization (BBQ) even faster — 5x faster than OpenSearch

Out-of-the-box semantic search and semantic reranking 

Wait, there’s more! 

Try it out

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Elasticsearch 9.0 & 8.18: Cooked for developers, with another helping of blazing-fast BBQ — 5x faster than OpenSearch

We're thrilled to announce that Elastic has been awarded two Google Cloud Partner of the Year awards for AI Innovation, highlighting our powerful collaboration in the generative AI space.

A partnership built for production-ready GenAI

Unified experience, powerful capabilities

Beyond application building: AI for IT operations

Observability and security for GenAI

Managing the complete AI lifecycle

Looking ahead

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Elastic recognized for AI innovation (twice!) with 2025 Google Cloud Partner of the Year Awards

Elastic 9.0, built on Lucene 10, marks a major upgrade for Elasticsearch. Elastic 9.0/8.18 includes faster BBQ, Elastic Distributions of OTel (EDOT) and LLM observability, Attack Discovery, Automatic Import, and enhancements in ES|QL like JOIN.

What’s new?

Elasticsearch

Elastic Observability 

Elastic Security 

The Elastic Search AI Platform

Start today

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Elastic 9.0/8.18: BBQ, EDOT & LLM observability, Attack Discovery, Auto Import, and ES|QL JOIN

Explore how Elastic’s Security and Observability solutions help SEBI-regulated financial institutions meet CSCRF mandates for governance, monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and continuous improvement.

Governance and risk management

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Threat detection and security monitoring

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Incident response and recovery

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Capacity planning and resiliency

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Continuous improvement and evolution

detection engineering behavior maturity model

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Strengthen your cyber resilience with Elastic

A guide to aligning with SEBI’s CSCRF using Elastic's integrated security and observability capabilities

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Strengthening cyber resilience with Elastic Security and Observability

Explore how to set up and manage product variants and SKUs when modeling data for your ecommerce search experiences. 

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Nine results, one for each size and color

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Variations shown as a single result, with color swatches

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Colors and sizes shown for in-stock items only

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How to create a document schema for product variants and SKUs for your ecommerce search experience

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