Security and Alerting for Elasticsearch
Search Guard is a security and alerting plug-in that encrypts and protects your data and data flows in the entire Elastic Stack designed for the modern enterprise.
Multilayer security
Protect your most sensitive data on all levels using role-based access control (RBAC) on your clusters, indices, fields and documents. From top to bottom Search Guard covers it all adding encryption, authentication, authorization, audit logging, multi tenancy and extended features to meet your compliance needs.
Industry standards
Search Guard supports all industry standards for authentication and authorization like LDAP, Active Directory, OpenID, SAML, Kerberos, JSON web tokens or client certificates. By using OpenSSL you can chose from a wide variety of modern and highly secure cipher suites.
Elastic Stack
Search Guard gives you full control over your entire Elastisearch environment. Protect all components of the Elastic stack, including Kibana, Logstash and Beats.
Search Guard is trusted by
Enterprise security on all levels
Encryption
Authentication
Authorization
Role-based access control
Audit logging
Multitenancy
Elastic stack
Compliance
Licensing models
Compliance edition
Designed for meeting compliance regulations e.g. GDPR
Record all read-and-write access to data
Monitor integrity of Elasticsearch installation
We offer an
Academic & Scientific License
, as well asCustom Licenses
for your personal needs.
60-day PoC License
Want to see how your company can benefit from our Compliance edition? Sign up to our 60-day trial, completely free of charge.
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What our clients say
Search Guard met all of our needs and more. Not only have we found open source tools that meet our needs, but we’ve found a partner that’s worked with us through the development of the new platform. They’ve been responsive and engaged every step of the way.- Security is paramount to the protection of our customer’s data. ICHEC chose Search Guard to protect its ELK-Stack environment because of its Single Sign-On authentication integration, access control measures and audit features. The licensing model is also flexible enough as we continue to grow our services.
- Security is the prerequisite for every project in the IT industry, especially when it comes to data. HEAnet chooses Search Guard to protect its ELK cluster because it provides node-to-node encryption (TLS) and more features such as multi-tenancy, compliance, unlike its competitors who only provide security on the REST layer.
- The Steinbuch Centre for Computing at KIT is using Search Guard to secure Elasticsearch instances operated in the World Wide LHC Computing Grid Tier-1 center "GridKa" and in the Large Scale Data Facility. Without fine-grained access control we would be unable to expose Elasticsearch to individual users or use single instances for both private and public data. The multitenancy features for Kibana offered by Search Guard are specially useful, enabling us to also use Kibana for public dashboards.
- Search Guard makes it possible for us to use the ELK-Stack in a productive environment. We chose Search Guard primarily because of the Active Directory and role-permission features. We find their licensing model incredibly helpful, as well as the fact that we are able to use an unlimited amount of nodes.
- We have chose SearchGuard because it matches our values of technical rigour, openness, and auditability. It is enabled us to ensure that data in transit is secure against eavesdropping in off-prem environments, to implement verifiable and granular access to our Elastic clusters, and most importantly to give our analysts access to restricted data sets with confidence that PII remains protected and confidential.
