# Client Side SSL authentication to Access Kibana **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [October 27, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/client-side-ssl-authentication-to-access-kibana/64212 "2016-10-27T21:37:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mailanu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@mailanu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mailanu)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/client-side-ssl-authentication-to-access-kibana/64212/1 "2016-10-27T21:37:04Z")
Hi, We have a single sign on portal through which we want users to access kibana. So, we want to protect kibana such that only requests from the single sign on portal is being responded. For that we want to configure kibana with a ca.crt file from client. Is there an option to do that? Thanks, Anusha. ---
**Author:** ![eperry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eperry/32/551_2.png) [@eperry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eperry)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/client-side-ssl-authentication-to-access-kibana/64212/2 "2016-10-28T02:03:39Z")
I put apache infront of kibana there, you can do just about anything. (nginx would work too) Are you using the Elasticsearch Security plugin? not sure what that is capable of ---
**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/client-side-ssl-authentication-to-access-kibana/64212/3 "2016-10-28T17:56:35Z")
Hi Anusha, can you take a look at [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/production.html#enabling-ssl](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/production.html#enabling-ssl) and let me know if it's helpful? Thanks, CJ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/client-side-ssl-authentication-to-access-kibana/64212/4 "2017-07-06T13:35:16Z")