# Shield Security Plugin

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-security-plugin/20786>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 17, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-security-plugin/20786 "2014-11-17T14:29:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![JD1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@JD1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JD1)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-security-plugin/20786/1 "2014-11-17T14:29:20Z")

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Hi,

Does Shield [http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/shield/](http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/shield/), the security  
plugin for ES, support encryption of data at rest? If not, has anyone used  
an alternative, like ecryptfs on RHEL, to achieve this?

Thanks,  
JD.

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**Author:** ![colings86](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/colings86/32/44960_2.png) [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-security-plugin/20786/2 "2014-11-17T17:21:45Z")

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Hi JD,

Shield does not support encryption of data at rest. Yes, as you suggest,  
you could look at options like encryptfs or dm-crypt to achieve this.

Colin

On Monday, 17 November 2014 14:29:20 UTC, JD wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Does Shield [http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/shield/](http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/shield/), the security  
> plugin for ES, support encryption of data at rest? If not, has anyone used  
> an alternative, like ecryptfs on RHEL, to achieve this?
> 
> Thanks,  
> JD.

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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, 12:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-security-plugin/20786/3 "2017-07-06T00:49:29Z")

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