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Webinar: How to Secure Elasticsearch in Production A Practical Implementation Guide
Anja Glauch || 2026-05-11
No-fluff session on the authentication, access control, and audit logging patterns that separate an Elastic cluster from a data-breach waiting to happen.
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Webinar: Elasticsearch Security Beyond Defaults – What Production Environments Really Require
Anja Glauch || 2026-05-06
As Elasticsearch becomes a critical backbone for business and security-sensitive data, protecting it requires more than basic access control.
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Empowering Women in Tech: Open and Honest Insights from Search Guard's Leadership Team
Verity || 2025-03-07
In the rapidly evolving tech industry, diversity in leadership has proven to be a catalyst for innovation and success.
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2025: You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet!
Verity || 2024-12-20
As the new year begins, we’re thrilled to kick off 2025 with big plans, exciting events, and even more content to keep you informed and inspired. Here’s what’s ahead and a look back at some of your favorite rea ...
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2024: A Year of Resilience and Community
Claudia || 2024-12-17
As we enter what’s known in Germany as the "5th season"—the time when everything slows down a bit, family and friends take center stage, and we wrap up the year—it's the perfect moment to pause, reflect, and plan for the future. ...
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Unveiling the New Look of Search Guard – Stronger, Sleeker, and Ready for the Future
Anja Glauch || 2024-11-18
In this post, we’re excited to share the design elements that make up our updated brand identity, a look we feel represents the powerful tools and robust protection that Search Guard stands for.
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Reader vs. Listener: The Great Debate!
Anja Glauch || 2024-09-26
In the age-old battle between readers and listeners, a new dimension has emerged—those who refuse to pick sides! Our team decided to conduct a fun poll to see where our audience stands. The results are in, and they might surprise yo ...
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Anja Glauch joins floragunn as Chief Marketing Officer
Jochen Kressin || 2024-04-15
We are very happy to announce that Anja Glauch has recently joined floragunn as CMO and will help to supercharge our marketing activities.
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Hall of Fame: Tim Berners-Lee
Jochen Kressin || 2024-01-11
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist who is best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He was born on June 8, 1955, in London.
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Navigating Change and Celebrating Milestones: Search Guard in 2023
Claudia Kressin || 2023-12-22
As we step into 2024, it's time to reflect on the dynamic landscape of Search Guard, Elasticsearch and OpenSearch throughout 2023.
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Newsletter: Happy New Year from Search Guard
Claudia Kressin || 2023-01-25
2022 was a busy year for us and we want to share some important links and updates in case you missed them as well as some insight into our 2023 plans!
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2022: Our Year in Review
Claudia Kressin || 2022-12-15
As the year comes to a close, we would like to take a moment to reflect on the last 12 months. Here are some key aspects we'd like to acknowledge and share.
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The floragunn Story
Claudia Kressin || 2022-11-21
Ten years ago, towards the end of 2012, it was our time to get serious. After countless discussions we took the step to start our own company.
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The Principles Behind Search Guard
Claudia Kressin || 2022-11-11
The core values and ethics driving the development of Search Guard, our enterprise security and alerting solution for Elasticsearch and Kibana
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2021: A Year In Review
Search Guard || 2021-12-23
As this year comes to a close, we wanted to reflect on the key releases, events and milestones for our company and the community.
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Newsletter: Happy Holidays From Search Guard
Search Guard || 2021-12-22
we wanted to take the chance to say a quick hello before the year comes to a close, and share some important links and updates in case you missed them.
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Happy Birthday Search Guard: Five Years Old and Still Going Strong!
Claudia Kressin || 2021-06-30
Happy Birthday Search Guard! Let's take a quick look back at the last year, share what we've been up to lately, let you know what's coming, and perhaps even squeeze in a piece of cake.
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Amazon OpenSearch and Search Guard
Claudia Kressin || 2021-04-20
With the advent of OpenSearch, an Elasticsearch fork driven forward by Amazon AWS, Search Guard users have now even more options to choose from.
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Happy Birthday Search Guard and welcome new Earthling
Jochen Kressin || 2020-06-17
Search Guard, the enterprise security and alerting plugin for Elasticsearch was first released exactly four years ago. Happy Birthday!
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Thanks Community, Thanks 2019, Welcome 2020!
Claudia Kressin || 2020-01-27
Thanks to all of you, Search Guard has had a tremendous year 2019. Here are some of the highlights and an outlook to 2020.
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Andreas Riedel joins floragunn as CEO
jkressin || 2019-12-20
We are happy to announce that Andreas Riedel has joined floragunn as CEO. He has over 25 years of experience in national and international companies.
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About Elastic’s DMCA move
jkressin || 2019-09-12
We fully and unconditionally reject Elastic’s allegations of copyright infringement, and will vigorously defend Elastic’s unfounded claims in court
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Dear Search Guard Community
jkressin || 2019-09-05
Floragunn sees no basis for any copyright infringement, rejects all of Elastic’s accusations and has consistently denied accusations from Elastic in the past.
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MITRE names Search Guard as a CVE Numbering Authority
Fabian Michalsen || 2019-07-03
floragunn GmbH has been named as a CVE numbering authority (CNA) by MITRE on June 26th. We look forward to participating in and supporting the CVE project.
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Search Guard achieves CA Veracode Verified Status
Jochen Kressin || 2018-05-19
Search Guard participates in CA Veracode Verified, a program that validates a company’s secure software development processes.
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Security means Open Source by definition
Claudia Kressin || 2017-10-26
The source code of Search Guard was always publicly available. Any security solution has to be open source by definition.
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