# ELK Security : What is the best choice for realm?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-security-what-is-the-best-choice-for-realm/235897>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [June 5, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-security-what-is-the-best-choice-for-realm/235897 "2020-06-05T07:01:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![elisavet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/258eb7/32.png) [@elisavet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elisavet)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-security-what-is-the-best-choice-for-realm/235897/1 "2020-06-05T07:01:52Z")

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Hello!

My goal is to enable security in ELK and create user/passwords for login.

Among the ELK realms, I am between native, file and pki (I am using the basic licence), but I do not know what are the pros and cons of each realm.

What would you suggest? What is the best practice?

Thank you,  
Elisavet

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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:** [July 3, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-security-what-is-the-best-choice-for-realm/235897/2 "2020-07-03T07:01:54Z")

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