.. _controlcenter_security: |c3| Security ============= Configuring security for |c3-short| involves various steps and needs to be done with care. Because the |c3-short| relies on Kafka Connect, Kafka brokers, Kafka Streams, interceptors and metrics reporters to work, there are numerous options that could be set depending on a particular environment or need. It is recommended you first farmiliarize yourself with :ref:`Kafka Security` and the associated components. .. note:: Once a component is secured, will be unable to communicate to other non-secured components. For instance, if you have a secured Kafka broker and a secured |c3-short|, but you have not secured Connect, the |c3-short| will behave sporatically when you attempt to use/view it. .. toctree:: ssl sasl authentication c3-auth-ldap