Elastic Defend feature privileges

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You can create user roles and define privileges to manage feature access in Elastic Security. This allows you to use the principle of least privilege while managing access to Elastic Defend’s features.

To configure roles and privileges, find Roles in the navigation menu or by using the global search field. For more details on using this UI, refer to Custom roles.

Elastic Defend’s feature privileges must be assigned to All Spaces. You can’t assign them to an individual space.

To grant access, select All for the Security feature in the Assign role to space configuration UI, then turn on the Customize sub-feature privileges switch.

Selecting All for the overall Security feature does NOT enable any sub-features. You must also enable the Customize sub-feature privileges switch, and then enable each sub-feature privilege individually.

For each of the following sub-feature privileges, select the type of access you want to allow:

  • All: Users have full access to the feature, which includes performing all available actions and managing configuration.
  • Read: Users can view the feature, but can’t perform any actions or manage configuration (some features don’t have this privilege).
  • None: Users can’t access or view the feature.

Endpoint List

Access the Endpoints page, which lists all hosts running Elastic Defend, and associated integration details.

Trusted Applications

Access the Trusted applications page to remediate conflicts with other software, such as antivirus or endpoint security applications

Host Isolation Exceptions

Access the Host isolation exceptions page to add specific IP addresses that isolated hosts can still communicate with.

Blocklist

Access the Blocklist page to prevent specified applications from running on hosts, extending the list of processes that Elastic Defend considers malicious.

Event Filters

Access the Event Filters page to filter out endpoint events that you don’t want stored in Elasticsearch.

Elastic Defend Policy Management

Access the Policies page and Elastic Defend integration policies to configure protections, event collection, and advanced policy features.

Response Actions History

Access the response actions history for endpoints.

Host Isolation

Allow users to isolate and release hosts.

Process Operations

Perform host process-related response actions, including processes, kill-process, and suspend-process.

File Operations

Perform file-related response actions in the response console.

Execute Operations

Perform shell commands and script-related response actions in the response console.

The commands are run on the host using the same user account running the Elastic Defend integration, which normally has full control over the system. Only grant this feature privilege to Elastic Security users who require this level of access.

Scan Operations

Perform folder scan response actions in the response console.