# Elastic Templates:

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-templates/261328>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** winlogbeat\
**Created:** [January 16, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-templates/261328 "2021-01-16T18:30:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 3:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-templates/261328/5 "2021-01-17T03:20:19Z")

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Hi @charleseblack126 welcome to the community

I suspect you did a basic / default install

There are some important concept that you really need to understand / take a look at with respect to Elasticsearch ...by default elasticsearch _only_ binds to `localhost` i.e. it is not reachable from the network

Take a look at [This](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/n00b-trying-to-set-up-on-windows/197514/4) post that I wrote up a while ago...

In short, Elastic forces you to make a **very** conscious decision to attach your cluster to the network... as soon as you do you should be thinking about auth / auth data security etc. With the proper configuration you can dev / test etc , but you need to set some settings and you should read about them first... but in no way do we recommend putting production data in an unsecured cluster.

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