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March 21, 2020
(insights,Testimonials)
How to Set up ReadonlyREST
Previously called the ELK Stack (an abbreviation for Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana), the addition of other tools to the product group (such as Beats and APM) invalidated the acronym and necessitated the name change. Curiously, there wasn’t a security...
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March 3, 2020
(insights)
Introduction to Authentication and Authorization in ReadonlyREST
ReadonlyREST (ROR) is a great alternative to Elasticsearch’s X-Pack security module, as it offers multiple advantages, like a better licensing model and price. In this blog post, we'll explore various methods of setting up authentication and authorization for ELK...
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March 3, 2020
(insights)
Quick Guide: Setting Up a Local Secured ELK Stack
Before diving into a new technology, you probably want to first try it out on your local setup. But sometimes, installation can be time-consuming and tedious, preventing you from ever getting started. When it comes to trying out an...
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November 14, 2019
(insights)
How to Maintain the Security of the Elastic Stack
Previously called the ELK Stack (an abbreviation for Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana), the addition of other tools to the product group (such as Beats and APM) invalidated the acronym and necessitated the name change. Curiously, there wasn’t a security...
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November 14, 2019
(insights)
Public yet Secure Access to a Huge Elasticsearch Dataset?
About the Project
Models for language-based applications such as speech recognition or NLP (natural language parsing) must be trained on large corpora of linguistically analyzed documents in the target language. The larger and better analyzed the corpus, the more robust...
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October 30, 2019
(insights)
How to make your ELK stack GDPR compliant?
The acronym ELK stands for three open-source projects—Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana—and is a common term among software developers. Elasticsearch is a program that works as a search and analytics engine. Logstash is a tool used to manage events and...
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October 30, 2019
(insights)
GDPR: What Have We Learned So Far?
After years of preparation and public debate, the European Union enacted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on May 25, 2018. The main motivations of the GDPR are to harmonize the previously fragmented data privacy laws across Europe and...
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October 1, 2019
(About ReadonlyREST)
The Evolution of ReadonlyREST
The ReadonlyREST story is closely interwoven with the open-source software (OSS) revolution in general, and with the spectacular success of a specific OSS project: Elasticsearch.
By promoting open exchange, collaboration, transparency, and community-oriented development, OSS has unleashed a whole new...
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July 11, 2018
(insights)
X-Pack Security vs. ReadonlyREST Enterprise
ReadonlyREST has evolved very rapidly in the last year, We ticked a lot of boxes in the features list. Currently, the X-Pack security module made by the Elastic team and the ReadonlyREST Enterprise features almost overlap.
Let's compare the Elasticsearch and...
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June 19, 2018
(News)
New release: 1.16.21
With the new release of our 6.3.0 version, Elastic delivered the promised and long-awaited code merge of X-Pack within the open source repositories of Elasticsearch and Kibana.
However, the X-Pack license still requires paying a fee. What has changed is that...
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June 6, 2018
(News)
New release: 1.16.20
This new release was very much invested in ReadonlyREST Free (our Elasticsearch plugin). We finally delivered the last three of the most desired features:
The "filter" rule, which implements Document Level Security (DLS).
The "fields" rule, which implements Field...
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May 11, 2018
(Testimonials)
An Interview with CERN
Hi Ulrich! Who are you and what's your role at CERN?
My name is Ulrich Schwickerath. Although I was an experimental physicist who did his PhD in Higgs boson searches at the LEP collider, I'm actually now working in the...
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