# We are looking security on elastic search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/we-are-looking-security-on-elastic-search/163900>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [January 11, 2019, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/we-are-looking-security-on-elastic-search/163900 "2019-01-11T12:58:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Bhanu\_Chandar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a6a055/32.png) [@Bhanu\_Chandar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bhanu_Chandar)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/we-are-looking-security-on-elastic-search/163900/1 "2019-01-11T12:58:25Z")

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Hi,

We are looking role-based control on the elastic search, can you suggest the tool to allow the access controls on ELK

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**Author:** ![GregoryB-T](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gregoryb-t/32/28564_2.png) [@GregoryB-T](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GregoryB-T)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/we-are-looking-security-on-elastic-search/163900/2 "2019-01-11T13:19:10Z")

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HI @Bhanu_Chandar

For the stack : [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/current/elasticsearch-security.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/current/elasticsearch-security.html)  
For the user access : [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/current/authorization.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/current/authorization.html)

Thanks and Regards

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**Author:** ![nkoothrappahli](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nkoothrappahli/32/31959_2.png) [@nkoothrappahli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nkoothrappahli)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/we-are-looking-security-on-elastic-search/163900/3 "2019-01-15T08:05:42Z")

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If you like an open source tool look here: [https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 8:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/we-are-looking-security-on-elastic-search/163900/4 "2019-02-12T08:06:02Z")

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