The ever-escalating popularity of Elasticsearch – the distributed open source search and log analytics engine that has become a staple in enterprise application developers’ tool belts – is well-warranted. Elasticsearch security lapses, however, have been a headline-grabbing thorn in the side of the technology.

The distributed document store too often represents a security blind spot for organizations, inexcusably failing to receive the attention and upkeep that other data storage solutions are normally granted. Data breach incidents involving Elasticsearch have been commonly rooted in this lack of attention, as well as a poor overall understanding of Elasticsearch security requirements.