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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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An introduction to TLS certificates

Cliff Staley || 2018-10-08

Securing the Elasticsearch inter-node traffic with TLS is a must. This article gives an introduction to TLS certificates and how they work.

Kibana Multi Tenancy with Search Guard

Jochen Kressin || 2018-10-08

Search Guard provides Kibana multi tenancy, which makes it possible to separate Dashboards and Visualizations on a per-role basis.

Using X-Pack Monitoring with Search Guard

Cliff Staley || 2018-10-01

Search Guard comes with predefined roles that make it easy to use X-Pack Monitoring, Alerting and Machine Learning with Elasticsearch.

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.

Using SAML for Kibana Single Sign On

Jochen Kressin || 2018-08-16

Search Guard fully supports for SAML, so you can use your favorite identity provider like Keycloak, Okta or Auth0 to implement easy Kibana Single Sign-On.

User Impersonation: Submit requests on behalf of another user

Cliff Staley || 2018-08-08

The best way to assure security rules work as desired, is to test the configuration. The Search Guard User Impersonation feature that makes testing easy.

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