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faq
Community forum
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Frequently asked questions
What is Search Guard?
Search Guard is an Enterprise Security Suite that encrypts and protects your data and data flows in the entire Elastic Stack, including Kibana, Logstash and Beats.
Do you offer support?
Of course. We offer both free support for the Search Guard community as well as paid support for our customers. As paying customer you get direct access to the core Search Guard developers and we also guarantee SLAs via our support portal.
What is the easiest way to set up PoC?
The easiest way to set up a PoC and try out all Search Guard features is to use the Search Guard Demo Installer: Search Guard Demo Installer The installer comes with a trial license that enables all Enterprise and Compliance features for 60 days. If you need to extend your Search Guard trial, just get in contact with us and we’re happy to provide you with an extended license.
Source Code
Access, download and inspect all our code on Gitlab, report any issue you find or request a feature.
TLS Certificate Generator
If you need TLS certificates for testing or a PoC, our generator web service is here to ease the pain.
Blog
What's new in Search Guard 6: Attribute based ...
Claudia Kressin || 2018-01-15
The Search Guard security suite for Elasticsearch and Kibana provides attribute based access control for documents in your Elasticsearch cluster ...
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Security means Open Source by definition
Claudia Kressin || 2017-10-26
The source code of Search Guard was always publicly available. Any security solution has to be open source by definition. ...
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EU General Data Protection Regulation – Are ...
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 ...
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User Impersonation: Submit requests on behalf ...
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 th ...
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Kibana Single Sign-On with OpenID and ...
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 ...
Jochen Kressin || 2018-05-30
The Search Guard Read History makes it possible to track access to PII data in your Elasticsearch cluster and helps to stay compliant with the informational rig ...
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White Papers
Download our whitepapers on Search Guard use cases and implementation examples.
CVE advisory
We are the official CVE numbering authority for Search Guard. Browse the list of known issues.
Disclosure Policy
If you have found a security related issue, please read our disclosure policy.
