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Search Guard Editions
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Search Guard Community Edition

Covers all your basic Security and Alerting needs
Free of charge
Integrated with the entire Elastic Stack
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Search Guard Enterprise Edition

Integrates with major security standards e.g. Active Directory
Field and Document-level Security and access control
Professional management API and Kibana multitenancy
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Search Guard Compliance Edition

Designed for meeting compliance regulations e.g. GDPR
Record all read-and-write access to data
Monitor integrity of Elasticsearch installation
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Feature breakdown
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Encryption
REST encryption
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Inter-node encryption
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PEM and JKS support
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OpenSLL support
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Access control
Role-based access control
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Transport- and HTTP access control
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Cluster-level access control
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Index-level access control
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Document-level access control
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Field-level access control
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Field anonymization
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Immutable indices
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Authentication
Internal user management
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HTTP Basic authentication
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PKI authentication
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Proxy authentication
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LDAP / Active Directory
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Kerberos / SPNEGO
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JSON web tokens
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OpenID Connect
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SAML
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Custom implementations
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Authorization
Internal group managemet
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Proxy headers
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LDAP / Active Directory
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JSON web tokens
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SAML
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Audit logging and compliance
Security audit logging
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Read-access audit logging
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Write-access audit logging
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Configuration change tracking
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System change tracking
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Alerting
Elasticsearch data sources
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External data sources
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Escalation levels
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Throttling and Acknowledgement
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Email, Slack and Webhook actions
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PagerDuty action
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JIRA action
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Configuration
No cluster reboot
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REST management API
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Configuration GUI
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Kibana
Kibana access control
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Kibana feature control
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Single Sign On
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Multi tenancy
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Compatibility
Kibana, logstash and beats
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Cross-cluster search
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Cross-cluster replication
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Elastic Stack Monitoring
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Elastic Stack Machine Learning
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Certifications
CA Veracode Verified
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Community Edition
Encryption
REST encryption
Inter-node encryption
PEM and JKS support
OpenSLL support
Access control
Role-based access control
Transport- and HTTP access control
Cluster-level access control
Index-level access control
Authentication
Internal user management
HTTP Basic authentication
PKI authentication
Proxy authentication
Authorization
Internal group managemet
Proxy headers
Audit logging and compliance
Alerting
Elasticsearch data sources
External data sources
Escalation levels
Throttling and Acknowledgement
Email, Slack and Webhook actions
Configuration
No cluster reboot
Kibana
Kibana access control
Kibana feature control
Compatibility
Kibana, logstash and beats
Cross-cluster search
Cross-cluster replication
Elastic Stack Monitoring
Elastic Stack Machine Learning
Certifications
CA Veracode Verified
Enterprise Edition
Encryption
REST encryption
Inter-node encryption
PEM and JKS support
OpenSLL support
Access control
Role-based access control
Transport- and HTTP access control
Cluster-level access control
Index-level access control
Document-level access control
Field-level access control
Authentication
Internal user management
HTTP Basic authentication
PKI authentication
Proxy authentication
LDAP / Active Directory
Kerberos / SPNEGO
JSON web tokens
OpenID Connect
SAML
Custom implementations
Authorization
Internal group managemet
Proxy headers
LDAP / Active Directory
JSON web tokens
SAML
Audit logging and compliance
Security audit logging
Alerting
Elasticsearch data sources
External data sources
Escalation levels
Throttling and Acknowledgement
Email, Slack and Webhook actions
PagerDuty action
JIRA action
Configuration
No cluster reboot
REST management API
Configuration GUI
Kibana
Kibana access control
Kibana feature control
Single Sign On
Multi tenancy
Compatibility
Kibana, logstash and beats
Cross-cluster search
Cross-cluster replication
Elastic Stack Monitoring
Elastic Stack Machine Learning
Certifications
CA Veracode Verified
Compliance Edition
Encryption
REST encryption
Inter-node encryption
PEM and JKS support
OpenSLL support
Access control
Role-based access control
Transport- and HTTP access control
Cluster-level access control
Index-level access control
Document-level access control
Field-level access control
Field anonymization
Immutable indices
Authentication
Internal user management
HTTP Basic authentication
PKI authentication
Proxy authentication
LDAP / Active Directory
Kerberos / SPNEGO
JSON web tokens
OpenID Connect
SAML
Custom implementations
Authorization
Internal group managemet
Proxy headers
LDAP / Active Directory
JSON web tokens
SAML
Audit logging and compliance
Security audit logging
Read-access audit logging
Write-access audit logging
Configuration change tracking
System change tracking
Alerting
Elasticsearch data sources
External data sources
Escalation levels
Throttling and Acknowledgement
Email, Slack and Webhook actions
PagerDuty action
JIRA action
Configuration
No cluster reboot
REST management API
Configuration GUI
Kibana
Kibana access control
Kibana feature control
Single Sign On
Multi tenancy
Compatibility
Kibana, logstash and beats
Cross-cluster search
Cross-cluster replication
Elastic Stack Monitoring
Elastic Stack Machine Learning
Certifications
CA Veracode Verified
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Academic & Scientific edition
Because we love to support education and science, we offer a special license model for non-profit academic and scientific purposes. If you think your project/institution is eligible for this program, please contact us.
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OEM, integrators & resellers
We provide tailor made custom licenses for system integrators, OEM partners and resellers.
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