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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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