Elastic has announced the support of Google Cloud’s AI technologies in its offerings, enhancing capabilities for developers and security professionals.
The collaboration between Elastic and Google Cloud involves three key integrations that aim to advance the ways in which users can access and apply AI tools. Elastic has integrated Google Cloud’s Vertex AI and Gemini models with its Elastic Attack Discovery and AI Assistant for Security. This development provides security analysts with more large language model (LLM) options to automate critical security tasks such as triage, investigation guidance, response, threat hunting, and creating detection rules.
Santosh Krishnan, General Manager of Security at Elastic, stated, “Our latest integration with Google Cloud’s Gemini 1.5 model via the Vertex AI platform continues our focus on making it easier to streamline security operations workflows.” This reflects Elastic’s commitment to enhancing security operations through AI technology.
Juan Bustos, Lead Solutions Consultant at Google Cloud, explained the benefit of the integration: “By leveraging Google Cloud’s Gemini 1.5 model via the Vertex AI platform, and the up-to-2M token window, Elastic’s Attack Discovery and Elastic AI Assistant features can now provide users with a level of contextual understanding previously unimaginable and provide immense value.” This integration is set to empower security professionals to refine their threat assessments further.
The new capabilities for developers include the Elasticsearch Open Inference API supporting Google AI Studio. This allows developers to engage with Elasticsearch data seamlessly, using Google’s Gemini models to enhance generative AI experiments rapidly.
Another integration involves the Elasticsearch Open Inference API and Playground supporting Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Platform. Through this, developers can utilise the Vertex AI for advanced text embedding and reranking, simplifying the construction of production applications on the Elasticsearch vector database.
Elastic Security Labs has been actively developing and refining detection rules optimised for Vertex AI and similar technologies to ensure that Elastic Security solutions remain at the forefront of industry standards. The support for Google Cloud’s Gemini 1.5 model via Vertex AI is now available, enabling Elastic Security solutions to maintain their competitive edge.
