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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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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.

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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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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.

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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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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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Read History: Monitoring document access for GDPR compliance

Jochen Kressin || 2018-05-30

The Search Guard Read History makes it possible to track access to PII data in your Elasticsearch cluster and stay compliant with GDPR

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Search Guard Enterprise Integrations

Jochen Kressin || 2018-05-20

Search Guard is integrated in many enterprise grade software solutions by vendors like Red Hat, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, IBM or CA Technologies.

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