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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 Elasticsearch and Kibana, and how to integrate with Keycloak.
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Generating production-ready certificates with the TLS tool
Cliff Staley || 2018-02-25
Generate TLS certificates for Elasticsearch, Kibana and Logstash with the Search Guard offline TLS generator at the click of a button.
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Security for distributed systems
Cliff Staley || 2018-02-20
In this article, we focus on some critical features of implementing security for distributed systems and see how do they affect Elasticsearch and Kibana.
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Search Guard provides GDPR compliance for Elasticsearch
Jochen Kressin || 2018-02-14
The Search Guard compliance features for Elasticsearch are specifically designed to help companies meet the requirements of GDPR
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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.
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Search Guard Compliance Features – Technical Preview
Jochen Kressin || 2018-01-24
Search Guard provides security for Elasticsearch and Kibana. The compliance edition helps you stay compliant with GDPR, HIPAA, ISO or SOX.
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What’s new in Search Guard 6: The configuration GUI
Jochen Kressin || 2018-01-22
The Kibana configuration UI for Search Guard provides an easy and intuitive way to manage users, roles and permissions.
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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
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Security means open source by definition
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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Elatsicsearch GDPR - are you prepared?
EU General Data Protection Regulation – Are you prepared?
Claudia Kressin || 2017-08-28
GDPR is coming. If you store PII data inside an Elasticsearch cluster, you are affected. Search Guard helps you to stay compliant
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