Enterprise Security for Elasticsearch and Kibana

Search Guard is an Enterprise Security Suite for Elasticsearch that encrypts and protects your data in the entire Elastic Stack, including Kibana, Logstash and Beats.

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Certified Security for Elasticsearch

Search Guard puts Security for Elasticsearch first. Our code is rigorously tested and verified by industry leaders like CA Veracode and NCC. We are committed to creating truly secure software for Elasticsearch since 2013 when no security solution for the Elastic Stack existed.
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Support for Elasticsearch and Search Guard

Besides our Community Forum we offer priority Elasticsearch and Search Guard support to our costumers with guaranteed SLAs and direct access to the Search Guard developer team. Custom support plans, including follow-the-sun and Elastic Stack support plans are available.
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Trusted by Fortune 500 companies

Search Guard for Elasticsearch is used in production environments by Fortune 500 companies around the globe. Including the federal sector, finance and healthcare companies, Telco providers and innovative start-ups.
Features
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TLS Encryption
REST encryption
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Inter-node encryption
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PEM and JKS support
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Access control
Role-based 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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Alerting
Elasticsearch data sources
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External HTTP 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 actions
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JIRA actions
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Configuration
REST management API
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Configuration GUI
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Kibana
Kibana access 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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Community Edition
TLS Encryption
REST encryption
Inter-node encryption
PEM and JKS support
Access control
Role-based 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 HTTP data sources
Escalation levels
Throttling and Acknowledgement
Email, Slack and Webhook actions
Configuration
Kibana
Kibana access control
Compatibility
Kibana, logstash and beats
Cross-cluster search
Cross-cluster replication
Elastic Stack Monitoring
Enterprise Edition
TLS Encryption
REST encryption
Inter-node encryption
PEM and JKS support
Access control
Role-based 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 HTTP data sources
Escalation levels
Throttling and Acknowledgement
Email, Slack and Webhook actions
PagerDuty actions
JIRA actions
Configuration
REST management API
Configuration GUI
Kibana
Kibana access control
Single Sign On
Multi tenancy
Compatibility
Kibana, logstash and beats
Cross-cluster search
Cross-cluster replication
Elastic Stack Monitoring
Compliance Edition
TLS Encryption
REST encryption
Inter-node encryption
PEM and JKS support
Access control
Role-based 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
Alerting
Elasticsearch data sources
External HTTP data sources
Escalation levels
Throttling and Acknowledgement
Email, Slack and Webhook actions
PagerDuty actions
JIRA actions
Configuration
REST management API
Configuration GUI
Kibana
Kibana access control
Single Sign On
Multi tenancy
Compatibility
Kibana, logstash and beats
Cross-cluster search
Cross-cluster replication
Elastic Stack Monitoring

Search Guard is trusted by

  • ObjectRocket
  • Würth Phoenix
Licensing models
Unlimited nodes - Scale your cluster, not your cost!
standard editions
academic & custom
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Community Edition for Elasticsearch

TLS encryption on REST and transport
Role-based access control to indices
Fully featured Alerting module
Integrated with the entire Elastic Stack
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Enterprise Edition for Elasticsearch

Integrates with all major security standards
Document- and Field-Level security controls
Audit Logging
Professional management API and Kibana multitenancy
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Compliance Edition for Elasticsearch

Designed for meeting compliance regulations
Field anonymization
Record read and write access to data
Monitor integrity of Elasticsearch installation
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We offer an
Academic & Scientific License
, as well as
Custom Licenses
for your personal needs.
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Free Trial

Free Trial

Want to see how your company can benefit from our Compliance edition? Sign up to our 60-day trial, completely free of charge.

Search Guard Headquarters

floragunn GmbH
Tempelhofer Ufer 16
10963 Berlin
Germnay

Authorized Partners

USA and Canada
Excelerate Systems LLC
2205 152nd Avenue NE Redmond
WA 98052
david.bennett@exceleratesystems.net

France & North Africa
Ian Quakenbos
iquackenbos@search-guard.com

South America
Excelerate Systems S de R.L. de C.V.
Córdoba 42, Roma Norte, Cuauhtémoc, C.P.
06700, Ciudad de México
victor.pichardo@exceleratesystems.net

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