# Securing Kibana "Main" Tabs with shield

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/securing-kibana-main-tabs-with-shield/59523
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [September 1, 2016, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/securing-kibana-main-tabs-with-shield/59523 "2016-09-01T09:52:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![mik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@mik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mik)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/securing-kibana-main-tabs-with-shield/59523/1 "2016-09-01T09:52:29Z")

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Hi,

I´m very new to kibana and shield.

Can I configure shield, so that a user can see only an group of defined dashboards, and has no access to the other areas like discover oder visualize.

Tnx Mik

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/securing-kibana-main-tabs-with-shield/59523/2 "2016-09-02T01:54:24Z")

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Unfortunately not, it's something we are working on though.

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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 6, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/securing-kibana-main-tabs-with-shield/59523/3 "2017-07-06T13:42:01Z")

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