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Amazon OpenSearch and Search Guard

Claudia Kressin || 2021-04-20

With the advent of OpenSearch, an Elasticsearch fork driven forward by Amazon AWS, Search Guard users have now even more options to choose from.

Elasticsearch License Changes

Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

Jochen Kressin || 2021-02-03

Elastic will change the license for Elasticsearch and Kibana from Apache2 to the non Open Source SSPL license.

Kibana Multi Tenancy Explained

Kibana Multi-Tenancy Explained

Cliff Staley || 2020-11-24

How does Kibana Multi Tenancy work? How can I create and assigns tenants? And how is a tenant different from a Search Guard role?

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Helpful Hint: Assign roles based on IPs or hostnames

Jochen Kressin || 2020-11-19

How to dynamically assign Search Guard roles based on the IP address or the hostname of the caller.

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Exclude Elasticsearch permissions from Search Guard roles

Jochen Kressin || 2020-11-18

How to combine including and excluding Elasticsearch permissions for Search Guard roles to create flexible and dynamic access controls.

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Helpful Hint: Blocking IPs in Elasticsearch

Jochen Kressin || 2020-11-12

How to use the blocks configuration to block certain IPs or IP ranges from accessing Elasticsearch on a global level.

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Search Guard Helpful Hints: Limit access to most recent Elasticsearch indices

Jochen Kressin || 2020-10-15

How to use Elasticsearch date math expressions with Search Guard to limit data access to the most recent indices only.

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Elasticsearch Document-Level Security

Jochen Kressin || 2020-10-13

How to use Document-level Security to control access to documents in an Elasticsearch index based on a users role.

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Security lessons from the Dark Web

Ewa Anna Szyszka || 2020-10-05

In this article we focus on the security lessons that can be learned from the Dark Web, which is only a small part of the Deep Web.

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What are micro-perimeters in the Zero-Trusted Networks approach?

Jochen Kressin || 2020-10-01

How micro-perimeters are defined, why they are increasing your security infrastructure, and how can they be applied to Elasticsearch

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