Elasticsearch security: Best practices to keep your data safe
You finally have your Elasticsearch cluster up and running, and data is ready to be ingested. Good job! But are you sure only authorized users are allowed to access the sensitive content you will be storing? In the era of cloud, remote services, and IoT, data security is an important topic that needs to be factored in from the start.
_x000D_Elasticsearch provides several security features to protect information and manage access to resources — and many of them, including role-based access control, are available for free in the default distribution.
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- Introduction to Elasticsearch security features_x000D_
- Encrypted communications_x000D_
- Built-in authentication realms_x000D_
- Role-based access control_x000D_
- Live demo: securing an existing cluster_x000D_