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We shape IT security and Open Source business models since 2013.

Management team
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Claudia Kressin
Founder & CEO
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Jochen Kressin
Founder & CEO
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Mechthild Wetekam
COO
Partners
Search Guard Partner Excelerate Systems
Search Guard Partner Excelerate Systems
Search Guard Partner Siren Solutions
Search Guard Partner Siren Solutions
Search Guard Partner Factor Group
Search Guard Partner Factor Group
The Search Guard Journey
  • January
    Search Guard FLX 1.5.0 released

  • December
    We conclude a year of growth, new team additions and a lot of releases and improvements.
    October
    Our company offsite brings together the complete Search Guard team from Europe, USA and Latin America
    August
    Search Guard FLX 1.3.0 released which brings new Audit Logging features
    June
    Search Guard FLX 1.2.0 released with a lot of Signals improvements and features
    February
    Search Guard FLX 1.1.1 for Elasticsearch 8.6.x released

  • Dec
    We celebrate the 10th anniversary of floragunn
    Dec
    Search Guard FLX 1.1.1 for Elasticsearch 7.17.8 and 8.5.0 released
    Nov
    We sponsored and attended the OSMC conference in Nuremberg
    sep
    Search Guard FLX for Elasticsearch 8 released
    Aug
    Search Guard FLX GA released.
    Jun
    Search Guard FLX Beta 2 for Elasticsearch released
    Jun
    Working on Search Guard for Elasticsearch 8. Search Guard 8 will be based on the Search Guard FLX codebase.
    May
    Search Guard FLX Beta 1 for Elasticsearch and OpenSearch released
    February
    Released a new technical preview for the next generation of Search Guard which also supports OpenSearch.

  • December
    We end the year with the infamous Log4j Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046 and CVE-2021-45105! We release Search Guard for Elasticsearch 7.16.1 and 7.16.2 which mitigates the issue
    November
    Sponsoring the Open Source Monitoring Conference (OSMC) in Nuremberg for the second time. We held a talk entitled, "An introduction to OpenSearch and its impact on FOSS".
    October
    Attended our first in person conference of the year, B-Boost in La Rochelle, France. Picture perfect weather with like minded people - what more could we ask for in a two day event.
    September
    Search Guard for OpenSearch is here! We have published a pre-release version that we would love you to test!
    August
    We started to work on the next major version of Search Guard, introducing a plethora of improvements and fixes.
    July
    Published a cumulative bugfix release that backports many fixes down to Elasticsearch 7.4.0
    June
    Announced LTS support for Elasticsearch 7.10.2, the last version that is available under Apache2 license.
    May
    Started to work on a new Kibana Session Management architecture based on the Search Gaurd Token Service.
    March
    Kubernetes Support: Search Guard Helm Charts are now available.
    March
    Released major improvements to Signals Alerting, improving the stability and footprint when running a lot of watches.
    February
    New API Auth Token Service released which allows for creating individual access tokens for users.

  • September
    Released Search Guard v45 which includes attribute based access control
    August
    Meet us at the virtual BlackHat conference.
    July
    Released Search Guard v43 which includes TLS certificate hot reload
    June
    Added dynamic salts for field anonymization and attachement support for Alerting Email actions
    May
    Introduced user filters, IP filters and JWT nested keys
    February
    Meet us at the RSA conference San Francisco, booth 2450
    January
    Signals Alerting for Elasticsearch GA released
    January
    Andreas Riedel joins as CEO

  • December
    We release Signals Beta
    November
    We present Search Guard at the Big Data World in Paris
    June
    We present Search Guard at the Infosecurity conference in London
    May
    We begin working on Signals - Alerting for Elasticsearch
    April
    Search Guard 7 was released
    March
    We present Search Guard at the RSA conference in San Francisco
    January
    We present Search Guard at the Intersec conference in Dubai

  • December
    Hendrik Saly joins Search Guard as our new CTO
    November
    We participate in the Open Source conference in Bordeaux.
    August
    We visit our business partners in Mexico City, New York, Washington and Seattle.
    June
    First Search Guard global offsite
    May
    We added SAML and OpenID support
    April
    We presented Search Guard at the RSA conference in San Francisco
    February
    TLS Tool for easy creation of production ready TLS certificates released

  • December
    Search Guard 6 was released
    April
    We presented Search Guard at the Big Data Paris conference
    January
    The Search Guard Kibana plugin was officially released.

  • November
    Search Guard 5 released, including Audit Logging and the new REST management API.
    June
    Search Guard 2 released

  • Winter
    Search Guard SSL for Elasticsearch 2.2.0 was officially released
    Source code is available
    Spring/ Summer
    Search Guard 1.x for Elasticsearch 1.x released on GitHub
    May
    Elastic Defender released as Search Guard 1.x TLS is mandatory
    January
    Elastic Defender by Hendrik Saly

  • Work on Search Guard, called Elastic Defender back then, started.

  • October
    Elasticsearch Security Plugin by Hendrik Saly

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