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title: Secure Filebeat
description: The following topics provide information about securing the Filebeat process and connecting to a cluster that has security features enabled. You can use...
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/beats/pull/47883/reference/filebeat/securing-filebeat
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# Secure Filebeat
The following topics provide information about securing the Filebeat process and connecting to a cluster that has security features enabled.
You can use role-based access control and optionally, API keys to grant Filebeat users access to secured resources.
- [*Grant users access to secured resources*](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/beats/pull/47883/reference/filebeat/feature-roles)
- [*Grant access using API keys*](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/beats/pull/47883/reference/filebeat/beats-api-keys).

After privileged users have been created, use authentication to connect to a secured Elastic cluster.
- [*Secure communication with Elasticsearch*](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/beats/pull/47883/reference/filebeat/securing-communication-elasticsearch)
- [*Secure communication with Logstash*](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/beats/pull/47883/reference/filebeat/configuring-ssl-logstash)

On Linux, Filebeat can take advantage of secure computing mode to restrict the system calls that a process can issue.
- [*Use Linux Secure Computing Mode (seccomp)*](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/beats/pull/47883/reference/filebeat/linux-seccomp)