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=== Moving On

Now that you have Shield up and running, you might want to:

* <<defining-roles, Define and Use Custom Roles>> for fine-grained access control.
* Integrate with <<ldap, LDAP>> or <<active-directory, Active Directory>>, or <<pki, require certificates>> for authentication.
* Use <<ssl-tls, SSL/TLS encryption>> to secure communications to and from nodes.
* Use <<ip-filtering, IP Filtering>> to allow or deny requests from particular IP addresses or address ranges.