User Authentication and Roles
Configure user authentication, create roles, and assign permissions to control who can access your cluster and what actions they can perform.
Securing Your Search Data
Imagine your search engine holds sensitive customer data or internal documents. Without proper security, anyone could potentially access, modify, or delete it.
This lesson will show you how to protect your Elasticsearch cluster by controlling who can do what.
Elasticsearch Security Features
Elasticsearch's security features, part of what was formerly X-Pack, provide robust controls for your cluster. They include:
- Authentication: Verifying user identities.
- Authorization: Defining what authenticated users can do.
- Encryption: Securing communication.
We'll focus on authentication and authorization in this lesson.
All lessons in this course
- User Authentication and Roles
- Field and Document Level Security
- TLS/SSL and Network Security
- API Keys and Audit Logging