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How a team of entity maintainers monitors, connects and scores entities in Elastic Security

medelastic_securityPublished 2026-08-24

<p>Open the entity analytics (EA) graph in Elastic Security and you'll see a user wired to the hosts they log in to and the devices they own, along with scattered accounts that turn out to be the same user. While interesting on its own, it provides a critical piece of context during a threat hunting or incident investigation. This post gives an overview of EA fundamentals and opens the hood to see

Indicators of compromise

Original source: https://www.elastic.co/security-labs/entity-resolution-identity-scoring-elastic-security