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Wir gestalten IT-Security und Open-Source-Geschäftsmodelle seit 2013.

Management-Team

Claudia KressinFounder & CEO
Jochen KressinFounder & CEO
Hendrik SalyCo-Founder
Mechthild WetekamCOO
Anja GlauchCMO

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Die Search Guard Story

2026
July
Packed booth at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin — three days of demos and conversations
July
Live webinar: Encryption at Rest for Elasticsearch
June
Berlin Buzzwords: we publicly unveil enclaivis, the new floragunn project
June
Search Guard FLX 4.1.1 and 4.1.2 released, keeping pace with the latest Elasticsearch 9 releases
March
Search Guard FLX 4.1.0 released
January
Launch of the Search Guard webinar series with "Beyond Access Control: Modern Elasticsearch Security"
2025
November
OSMC Nuremberg: our founder speaks on "Challenges and Pitfalls of Applying GenAI in Monitoring"
October
Search Guard FLX 4.0.0 released
October
Search Guard becomes available on the AWS Marketplace through our partner Excelerate Systems
July
Signals Alerting is now included for free in every Search Guard edition
June
Search Guard FLX brings full Elasticsearch 9 compatibility
June
Sponsors and exhibitors at Berlin Buzzwords 2025
March
First technical preview of our Encryption at Rest plugin
February
We start to work on our Anomaly Detection Feature
January
Search Guard FLX 3.0.3 released
2024
November
Sponsored the OSMC conference and presented the latest Search Guard FLX features
November
Search Guard FLX 3.0.0 released
June
We are Sponsors of the Berlin Buzzwords Conference
May
Search Guard FLX 2.0.0 released
February
First technical preview of our Automated Index Management Feature
January
Search Guard FLX 1.5.0 released
2023
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
2022
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.
2021
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.
2020
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 attachment 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
2019
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
2018
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
2017
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.
2016
November
Search Guard 5 released, including Audit Logging and the new REST management API.
June
Search Guard 2 released
2015
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
2014
Work on Search Guard, called Elastic Defender back then, started.
2013
October
Elasticsearch Security Plugin by Hendrik Saly

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