# Securing the hosted version of Elastic

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/securing-the-hosted-version-of-elastic/68154>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 6, 2016, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/securing-the-hosted-version-of-elastic/68154 "2016-12-06T09:55:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![USER9999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@USER9999](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/USER9999)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/securing-the-hosted-version-of-elastic/68154/1 "2016-12-06T09:55:33Z")

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Hello,

Since I am very new to Elastic I would like to know the following:

I am working on a test environment where we have a virtual machine with the latest version of Logstash installed.  
Elasticsearch and Kibana are hosted in the Elastic cloud, with a monthly subscription.

I would like to know which are the steps to take to start with Security (former Shield) for securing the logs that are sent from Logstash.

I read the documentation about starting with Security, but how do I enable it on our cloud instance?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,  
Judy

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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:** [December 6, 2016, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/securing-the-hosted-version-of-elastic/68154/2 "2016-12-06T10:27:04Z")

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Security is enabled by default in the Cloud service. So you need to setup a user and then add that to LS.

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud/current/security.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud/current/security.html)  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/logstash.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/logstash.html)

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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:** [January 3, 2017, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/securing-the-hosted-version-of-elastic/68154/3 "2017-01-03T10:27:17Z")

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