What is Search Guard?
Search Guard is a Security and Alerting Plugin that encrypts and protects data and data flows from unauthorized access in the entire Elastic Stack. Search Guard provides tools to encrypt, secure and monitor access to data stored in Elasticsearch, including Kibana, Logstash and Beats.
Search Guard aims to provide an all-encompassing security solution to keep confidential data safe. Utilizing RBAC, Search Guard ensures the highest level of protection in clusters, indices, and documents by adding encryption, authentication, authorization, audit logging, compliance as well as alerting and anomaly detection feature. It supports all industry standards for authentication and authorization like LDAP, Active Directory, OpenID, SAML, Kerberos, JSON web tokens or client certificates.
Search Guard comes in three editions:
- Free Community Edition (Apache 2 licensed, open source and free of charge)
- Enterprise Edition (requires license)
- Compliance Edition for covering regulations like PCI, GDPR, HIPAA or SOX (requires license)
Categories & Use Cases
Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-Premise |
|---|---|
| Mobile Application | No |
FAQs
What is Search Guard?
Search Guard is a Security and Alerting Plugin that encrypts and protects data and data flows from unauthorized access in the entire Elastic Stack.
How much does Search Guard cost?
Search Guard starts at $0.