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Kerberos Elasticsearch

Understanding Kerberos Part 1: The Basics

Jochen Kressin || 2024-05-27

This article delves into the details of Kerberos, explores its most common applications, and discusses its advantages and disadvantages over other authentication methods like SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) and OIDC (OpenID Connec ...

Common Elasticsearch Errors Blog pt1

Common Elasticsearch Errors and How to Solve Them - Part 1

Jochen Kressin || 2024-04-24

In this blog post series, we’ll cover the most common Elasticsearch errors in detail and provide a step-by-step guide to troubleshooting them.

Strengthening Data Security

EasyPark App Breach: Embracing Zero Trust Architecture

Claudia Kressin || 2024-03-18

The recent EasyPark app breach serves as a stark reminder of the ever-looming threat of cyber attacks in today's digital landscape. As organizations grapple with the aftermath of such incidents, it's crucial to reassess our approach to data security. ...

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What are micro-perimeters in the Zero-Trusted Networks approach?

Jochen Kressin || 2020-10-01

How micro-perimeters are defined, why they are increasing your security infrastructure, and how can they be applied to Elasticsearch

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Quantum Computing and the future of security

Ewa Anna Szyszka || 2020-08-06

What does the arrival of quantum computers mean for the future of security and what vulnerabilities would the popularization of quantum computation bring?

Elasticsearch Monitoring Signals

Monitoring Elasticsearch with Signals Alerting

Cliff Staley || 2020-07-13

How to use Search Guard Signals to monitor an n Elasticsearch cluster and track things like memory consumption, latency etc.

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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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Creating Search Guard TLS certificates with OpenSSL

Jochen Kressin || 2019-01-04

This article shows how to create TLS certificates for securing Elasticsearch with Search Guard from scratch by using OpenSSL.

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Zero-trusted networks

Cliff Staley || 2019-01-02

To secure your data in Elasticsearch, leveraging perimeter security is not sufficient anymore. Why you should switch to a zero-trusted network approach.

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An introduction to TLS

Jochen Kressin || 2018-08-20

This article explains the basics of TLS and why it is the best technology for securing and encrypting data in an Elasticsearch cluster at the moment.

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Kibana Single Sign-On with OpenID and Keycloak

Jochen Kressin || 2018-07-12

Use Search Guard to implement Kibana Single Sign On with OpenID. Use your favorite identity provider like Keycloak, Okta or Auth0 with the Elastic stack.

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Using JSON web tokens to secure Elasticsearch

Cliff Staley || 2018-03-19

How to set up and use JSON web tokens to implement Single-Sign-On access to your Elasticsearch cluster, and how to integrate with identity providers like Keycloak or Google. Easy, lightweight, yet secu ...

Search Guard puts security first

Search Guard puts security first

Jochen Kressin || 2018-01-30

Search Guard provides the highest level of security for Elasticsearch possible. Our mission is to always put security first.

Elasticsearch attribute based security

What's new in Search Guard 6: Attribute based document access

Claudia Kressin || 2018-01-15

The Search Guard security suite for Elasticsearch and Kibana provides attribute based access control for documents in your Elasticsearch cluster

Elasticsearch security proxy

Don’t rely on proxies for Elasticsearch security

Jochen Kressin || 2017-05-27

This article shows why using a proxy for implementing security for Elasticsearch is a bad idea, and why you should use Search Guard instead.

Transport client authorisation with Elasticsearch

Transport client authentication and authorization

Jochen Kressin || 2016-11-13

How to use an Elasticsearch transport client with Search Guard authentication and authorization.

Document- and field-level security with Elasticsearch

Document- and field-level security with Search Guard

Jochen Kressin || 2016-08-17

Use document- and field-level security with Elasticsearch and Kibana to restrict access to documents and fields.

Why does Search Guard require TLS

Why does Search Guard require SSL/TLS?

Jochen Kressin || 2016-07-09

In this article we explain how Search Guard uses TLS to protect the traffic in your Elasticsearch cluster on REST and transport layer.

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