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Security for Elasticsearch was always free with Search Guard

Jochen Kressin || 2019-05-28

The Community Edition of Search Guard always offered Elasticsearch security for free. Trust the Security Suite from the Elasticsearch security pioneers.

Log ingestion with Beats, Logstash and Search Guard

Paulo Melo || 2019-03-20

How to configure Search Guard with Elasticsearch log analytics tools like Beats and logstash to protect log data in your cluster.

Elasticsearch client certificate authentication

Cliff Stayley || 2019-02-06

How to use TLS client certificate authentication with Elasticsearch by using Search Guard, the enterprise security suite for Elasticsearch.

LDAP authentication and authorisation, part 1: OpenLDAP setup

Cliff Stayley || 2019-01-28

This article describes how to set up OpenLDAP for Elasticsearch authentication and authorisation in combination with Search Guard.

Using Kerberos with Elasticsearch and Kibana

Cliff Stayley || 2019-01-16

How to setup Kerberos authentication for Elasticsearch and Kibana by using Search Guard, the enterprise security suite for Elasticsearch.

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.

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.

Field anonymization

Cliff Staley || 2018-12-21

How to use Search Guard to anonymise sensitive data in your Elasticsearch cluster on the fly without any modifcations at ingest time.

Custom authentication modules

Jochen Kressin || 2018-12-11

This article demonstrates how to implement custom authentication and authorization modules for Search Guard to secure your Elasticsearch cluster.

First steps - Set up users and roles

Jochen Kressin || 2018-10-21

This article explains the Search Guard request flow and provides step-by-step instruction to add new users, roles and permissions.

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