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davethegut/README.md

πŸ‘‹ Hi, I'm David Elgut

🎯 Sr. Product Manager, Agentic Security β€” Elastic
πŸ” AI-Powered SOC, Threat Detection, and Security Operations
🧠 Building intelligent security systems that help analysts focus on what matters

🧠 About Me

I'm a Product Manager focused on applying AI to security operations at scale. I currently lead product for Elastic's AI SOC Engine (EASE) and Attack Discovery β€” capabilities that use large language models to help security teams cut through alert noise, discover real attacks, and accelerate investigation.

Before Elastic, I built security platforms at Malwarebytes (ThreatDown) and Graylog β€” spanning EDR, MDR, SIEM, and security data pipelines across MSP and enterprise environments.

As a PM, I:

  • Define AI-powered security capabilities that augment SOC analysts rather than replace them
  • Translate complex detection and investigation workflows into simple, trustworthy AI experiences
  • Partner with engineering, UX, and research to ship LLM-powered features at production scale
  • Balance detection accuracy, analyst trust, and system performance

πŸš€ What I'm Building at Elastic

πŸ€– Elastic AI SOC Engine (EASE)

Product owner for EASE β€” an AI-powered security operations platform built on Elastic Security Serverless.

  • Ingests alerts from third-party SIEMs (Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Google SecOps, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne) via agentless integrations
  • Automatically promotes third-party alerts into Elastic Security alerts for unified lifecycle management
  • Provides AI-powered alert triage and investigation alongside LLM-driven Attack Discovery
  • Deployed and delivering value within minutes β€” designed for SOC teams augmenting existing SIEM investments

πŸ” Attack Discovery

Product owner for Attack Discovery β€” an LLM-powered feature that analyzes security alerts to surface real attacks.

  • Identifies attack chains across multiple alerts, mapping relationships to users, hosts, and MITRE ATT&CK techniques
  • Scheduled analysis with customizable alert filters (KQL queries, time ranges, alert count)
  • Notifications via Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, and email when new attacks are discovered
  • Public API for programmatic access and integration into existing SOC workflows
  • Works alongside Elastic's AI Assistant (Agent Builder) for deeper conversational investigation

πŸ”§ Prior Work

Malwarebytes / ThreatDown

Owned core endpoint security platform capabilities protecting 2M+ endpoints across 60,000+ businesses:

  • AI-Assisted Investigation β€” AI-generated detection summaries and secure script analysis for MDR workflows
  • Centralized Audit Logging β€” Exportable, compliance-ready logs supporting CIS, ISO, and PCI frameworks
  • Active Directory / Entra ID Sync β€” Native directory synchronization expanding identity visibility across endpoint security
  • RBAC & Identity β€” Permission-driven access patterns for MSP and enterprise environments

Graylog

Helped build the Graylog SIEM platform from 0β†’1:

  • Owned ingestion and export strategies across syslog, JSON, and API-based pipelines
  • Built and scaled 50+ integrations including CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, and Okta
  • Expanded the platform's data model and integration ecosystem

πŸ“« Connect

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