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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

Search Guard 6 has arrived

Search Guard 6 is coming!

Claudia Kressin || 2017-08-21

Search Guard 6 will arrive soon with a whole bunch of new features that help you keeping Elasticsearch and Kibana secure.

Meeting Elasticsearch compliance regulations

Meeting compliance regulations with Search Guard audit logging

Jochen Kressin || 2017-06-09

Search Guard provides a sound, bullet-proof, and flexible Audit Log module that enables you to record any activity in your cluster.

Elasticsearch security proxy

Don’t rely on proxies for Elasticsearch security

Jochen Kressin || 2017-05-27

This article shows why using a proxy for implementing security for Elasticsearch is a bad idea, and why you should use Search Guard instead.

Search Guard 5 has arrived

Search Guard 5 is here!

Jochen Kressin || 2016-11-14

Search Guard 5 is compatible with Elasticsearch 5 and offers all features of our previous Search Guard versions.

Transport client authorisation with Elasticsearch

Transport client authentication and authorization

Jochen Kressin || 2016-11-13

How to use an Elasticsearch transport client with Search Guard authentication and authorization.

Manage Search Guard replica shards in Elasticsearch

Managing the replica shards of the Search Guard index

Jochen Kressin || 2016-09-10

This article describes how to manage the replica shards of the Search Guard security configuration index for high availability

Document- and field-level security with Elasticsearch

Document- and field-level security with Search Guard

Jochen Kressin || 2016-08-17

Use document- and field-level security with Elasticsearch and Kibana to restrict access to documents and fields.

Using transport clients with search guard

Using Transport Clients with Search Guard

Jochen Kressin || 2016-07-26

How to use Transport Clients to securely access your Elasticsearch cluster that is protected by Search Guard.

Why does Search Guard require TLS

Why does Search Guard require SSL/TLS?

Jochen Kressin || 2016-07-09

In this article we explain how Search Guard uses TLS to protect the traffic in your Elasticsearch cluster on REST and transport layer.

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