The Dangers of Exposed Elasticsearch Instances

This blog was originally published by Open Raven here. Written by Michael Ness, Open Raven. Elasticsearch is a widely used text-search and analytics engine. The tooling provides a simple solution to quickly, easily, and efficiently store and search large volumes of data. Elasticsearch is utilized for a wide range of different use cases in applications, from logging request data all the way through to storing sensitive data used within applications. Despite its usefulness, Elasticsearch instan...

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