Security Automation in the Agentic Era: Unifying Data, Context, and Action

#1719827: Security Automation in the Agentic Era: Unifying Data, Context, and Action

Description:	Security teams have used automation for years to reduce manual work and make repeatable tasks reliable. Playbooks work well when the process is known in advance. But real security investigations rarely start that way. Alerts are incomplete, context is scattered, and analysts spend much of their time figuring out what happened before they can decide what to do. In this session, we’ll show how Elastic Workflows helps security teams automate both the work that needs precision and the work that requires interpretation. You’ll see how workflows handle automation that must be consistent and predictable, and how AI agents can be used within workflows to gather context, correlate signals, and surface likely explanations when the next step isn’t obvious. We’ll walk through practical security examples like alert enrichment, case handling, and early investigation, all running directly where the data already lives in Elasticsearch. The goal isn’t full autonomy. It’s better starting points for analysts, less manual toil, and more control over how automation is applied. How security automation has helped teams in the past, and where it breaks down in real investigations How to automate work that needs precision and consistency without sacrificing control Where AI agents add value in security workflows by helping with ambiguity, context gathering, and interpretation How to combine workflows and agents so analysts stay in control while automation does more of the heavy lifting Whether you are a security analyst escaping the manual grind or a leader trying to scale effectiveness without scaling headcount linearly, this session will show you how to shift from reactive firefighting to proactive understanding.
More info:	https://dr-resources.darkreading.com/free/w_elat54/

Description:

Security teams have used automation for years to reduce manual work and make repeatable tasks reliable. Playbooks work well when the process is known in advance. But real security investigations rarely start that way. Alerts are incomplete, context is scattered, and analysts spend much of their time figuring out what happened before they can decide what to do.

In this session, we’ll show how Elastic Workflows helps security teams automate both the work that needs precision and the work that requires interpretation. You’ll see how workflows handle automation that must be consistent and predictable, and how AI agents can be used within workflows to gather context, correlate signals, and surface likely explanations when the next step isn’t obvious.

We’ll walk through practical security examples like alert enrichment, case handling, and early investigation, all running directly where the data already lives in Elasticsearch. The goal isn’t full autonomy. It’s better starting points for analysts, less manual toil, and more control over how automation is applied.

How security automation has helped teams in the past, and where it breaks down in real investigations
How to automate work that needs precision and consistency without sacrificing control
Where AI agents add value in security workflows by helping with ambiguity, context gathering, and interpretation
How to combine workflows and agents so analysts stay in control while automation does more of the heavy lifting
Whether you are a security analyst escaping the manual grind or a leader trying to scale effectiveness without scaling headcount linearly, this session will show you how to shift from reactive firefighting to proactive understanding.

More info:

https://dr-resources.darkreading.com/free/w_elat54/

Date added	Jan. 13, 2026, 7:34 p.m.
Source	Dark Reading
Subjects	Agentic AI AI/ML - Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / GenAI / Artificial General Intelligence - AGI - Various Elastic - Elasticsearch PodCasts / Webcast / Webinar / eSummit / Virtual Event etc.