.. _confluentsecurityplugins_Introduction:

Confluent Security Plugins
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Confluent security plugins add security capabilities to various |cp| tools and products.

- The |ak-tm| LDAP plugins enable group-based authorization in brokers using groups configured in your LDAP server.
- The |crest-long| authenticates the incoming requests and propagates the authenticated principal to requests to |ak|.
  This enables |crest-long| clients to utilize the multi-tenant security features of the |ak| broker.
- The |sr| security plugin adds the capability to authenticate the incoming requests and authorize them via
  the configured authorizer.

Documentation
   .. toctree::
      :maxdepth: 2

      kafka/introduction
      kafka-rest/introduction
      schema-registry/introduction