diff --git a/app/loader/KafkaManagerLoader.scala b/app/loader/KafkaManagerLoader.scala
index 3cda91b24..6d476df49 100644
--- a/app/loader/KafkaManagerLoader.scala
+++ b/app/loader/KafkaManagerLoader.scala
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ package loader
 import controllers.KafkaManagerContext
 import features.ApplicationFeatures
 import models.navigation.Menus
+import net.kaliber.basicAuthentication.BasicAuthenticationFilter
 import play.api.ApplicationLoader
 import play.api.ApplicationLoader.Context
 import play.api.BuiltInComponentsFromContext
@@ -39,6 +40,8 @@ class ApplicationComponents(context: Context) extends BuiltInComponentsFromConte
   private[this] lazy val assetsC = new controllers.Assets(httpErrorHandler)
   private[this] lazy val webJarsAssetsC = new controllers.WebJarAssets(httpErrorHandler, context.initialConfiguration, context.environment)
 
+  override lazy val httpFilters = Seq(BasicAuthenticationFilter(context.initialConfiguration))
+
   override val router: Router = new Routes(
     httpErrorHandler, 
     applicationC, 
diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
index 9fca14f6c..cf0042501 100644
--- a/build.sbt
+++ b/build.sbt
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ assemblyMergeStrategy in assembly := {
   case other => (assemblyMergeStrategy in assembly).value(other)
 }
 
+resolvers += "Kaliber Repository" at "https://jars.kaliber.io/artifactory/libs-release-local"
+
 libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
   "com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-actor" % "2.3.14",
   "com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-slf4j" % "2.3.14",
@@ -39,7 +41,8 @@ libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
   "org.scalatest" %% "scalatest" % "2.2.1" % "test",
   "org.apache.curator" % "curator-test" % "2.9.1" % "test",
   "org.mockito" % "mockito-core" % "1.10.19" % "test",
-  "com.yammer.metrics" % "metrics-core" % "2.2.0" force()
+  "com.yammer.metrics" % "metrics-core" % "2.2.0" force(),
+  "net.kaliber" %% "play-basic-authentication-filter" % "0.7"
 )
 
 routesGenerator := InjectedRoutesGenerator
diff --git a/conf/application.conf b/conf/application.conf
index 89714ba2a..843990a91 100644
--- a/conf/application.conf
+++ b/conf/application.conf
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ pinned-dispatcher.type="PinnedDispatcher"
 pinned-dispatcher.executor="thread-pool-executor"
 application.features=["KMClusterManagerFeature","KMTopicManagerFeature","KMPreferredReplicaElectionFeature","KMReassignPartitionsFeature"]
 
+basicAuthentication.username=username
+basicAuthentication.password=password
+
 akka {
   loggers = ["akka.event.slf4j.Slf4jLogger"]
   loglevel = "INFO"