diff --git a/hartmann-foto-documentation-app/src/main/java/marketing/heyday/hartmann/fotodocumentation/core/utils/LoginUtils.java b/hartmann-foto-documentation-app/src/main/java/marketing/heyday/hartmann/fotodocumentation/core/utils/LoginUtils.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..967a311
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hartmann-foto-documentation-app/src/main/java/marketing/heyday/hartmann/fotodocumentation/core/utils/LoginUtils.java
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+package marketing.heyday.hartmann.fotodocumentation.core.utils;
+
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.security.Principal;
+
+import java.util.Optional;
+
+import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+import org.wildfly.security.auth.principal.NamePrincipal;
+import org.wildfly.security.auth.server.RealmUnavailableException;
+import org.wildfly.security.auth.server.SecurityDomain;
+import org.wildfly.security.auth.server.SecurityIdentity;
+import org.wildfly.security.evidence.PasswordGuessEvidence;
+
+import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import javaslang.Tuple;
+import javaslang.Tuple2;
+
+/**
+ * 
+ * <p>Copyright: Copyright (c) 2024</p>
+ * <p>Company: heyday Marketing GmbH</p>
+ * @author <a href="mailto:p.verboom@heyday.marketing">Patrick Verboom</a>
+ * @version 1.0
+ * 
+ * created: 20 Jan 2026
+ */
+
+public class LoginUtils {
+	private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(LoginUtils.class);
+	private static final int BASIC_HEADER_SIZE = 6;
+	private static final int USERPASS_LENGTH = 1;
+
+	public Optional<SecurityIdentity> authenticate(HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest) {
+		Tuple2<String, String> userPass = extractUsernamePassword(httpServletRequest);
+		if (userPass._1.isBlank() || userPass._2.isBlank()) {
+			return Optional.empty();
+		}
+		return authenticate(userPass._1, userPass._2);
+	}
+
+	public Optional<String> getSecurityToken(HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest) {
+		Optional<String[]> headerOpt = extractAuthHeader(httpServletRequest);
+		if (headerOpt.isPresent() && headerOpt.get().length > 2) {
+			return Optional.ofNullable(headerOpt.get()[2]);
+		}
+		return Optional.empty();
+	}
+
+	private Optional<SecurityIdentity> authenticate(String username, String password) {
+		try {
+			Principal principal = new NamePrincipal(username);
+			PasswordGuessEvidence evidence = new PasswordGuessEvidence(password.toCharArray());
+
+			SecurityDomain sd = SecurityDomain.getCurrent();
+			return Optional.ofNullable(sd.authenticate(principal, evidence));
+		} catch (RealmUnavailableException | SecurityException e) {
+			LOG.warn("Failed to authenticate user " +  e.getMessage(), e);
+			return Optional.empty();
+		}
+	}
+
+	private Tuple2<String, String> extractUsernamePassword(HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest) {
+		Optional<String[]> userPassOptional = extractAuthHeader(httpServletRequest);
+
+		if (userPassOptional.isPresent() && userPassOptional.get().length >= USERPASS_LENGTH) {
+			String[] userpass = userPassOptional.get();
+			String username = userpass[0];
+			String password = userpass.length > USERPASS_LENGTH ? userpass[1] : "";
+
+			return Tuple.of(username, password);
+		}
+		return Tuple.of("", "");
+	}
+
+	private Optional<String[]> extractAuthHeader(HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest) {
+		Optional<String[]> retVal = Optional.empty();
+
+		String authorization = httpServletRequest.getHeader("Authorization");
+		if (authorization != null && StringUtils.length(authorization) > BASIC_HEADER_SIZE) {
+			authorization = authorization.substring(BASIC_HEADER_SIZE);
+			String decoded = StringUtils.toEncodedString(Base64.decodeBase64(authorization), Charset.forName("utf-8"));
+			retVal = Optional.of(decoded.split(":"));
+		}
+		return retVal;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Extract device information from User-Agent header
+	 *
+	 * @param request HTTP servlet request
+	 * @return Device/browser information
+	 */
+	public String extractDeviceInfo(HttpServletRequest request) {
+		String userAgent = request.getHeader("User-Agent");
+		return userAgent != null ? userAgent : "Unknown";
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Extract client IP address, considering proxies
+	 *
+	 * @param request HTTP servlet request
+	 * @return Client IP address
+	 */
+	public String extractIpAddress(HttpServletRequest request) {
+		String xForwardedFor = request.getHeader("X-Forwarded-For");
+		if (xForwardedFor != null && !xForwardedFor.isEmpty()) {
+			// X-Forwarded-For can contain multiple IPs, take the first one
+			return xForwardedFor.split(",")[0].trim();
+		}
+		return request.getRemoteAddr();
+	}
+}
diff --git a/hartmann-foto-documentation-app/src/main/java/marketing/heyday/hartmann/fotodocumentation/rest/CustomerPictureResource.java b/hartmann-foto-documentation-app/src/main/java/marketing/heyday/hartmann/fotodocumentation/rest/CustomerPictureResource.java
index 3a01182..4fd6627 100644
--- a/hartmann-foto-documentation-app/src/main/java/marketing/heyday/hartmann/fotodocumentation/rest/CustomerPictureResource.java
+++ b/hartmann-foto-documentation-app/src/main/java/marketing/heyday/hartmann/fotodocumentation/rest/CustomerPictureResource.java
@@ -1,18 +1,27 @@
 package marketing.heyday.hartmann.fotodocumentation.rest;
 
+import java.util.Optional;
+
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.jboss.resteasy.annotations.GZIP;
+import org.wildfly.security.auth.server.SecurityIdentity;
 
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.Operation;
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.responses.ApiResponse;
 import jakarta.ejb.EJB;
 import jakarta.enterprise.context.RequestScoped;
+import jakarta.inject.Inject;
+import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
 import jakarta.ws.rs.Consumes;
 import jakarta.ws.rs.POST;
 import jakarta.ws.rs.Path;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.core.Context;
 import jakarta.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
 import jakarta.ws.rs.core.Response;
 import jakarta.ws.rs.core.Response.Status;
 import marketing.heyday.hartmann.fotodocumentation.core.service.CustomerPictureService;
+import marketing.heyday.hartmann.fotodocumentation.core.utils.LoginUtils;
 import marketing.heyday.hartmann.fotodocumentation.rest.jackson.JsonSchemaValidate;
 import marketing.heyday.hartmann.fotodocumentation.rest.vo.CustomerPictureValue;
 
@@ -28,18 +37,28 @@ import marketing.heyday.hartmann.fotodocumentation.rest.vo.CustomerPictureValue;
 @RequestScoped
 @Path("customer-picture")
 public class CustomerPictureResource {
-
+	private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(CustomerPictureResource.class);
+		
 	@EJB
 	private CustomerPictureService customerPictureService;
 
+	@Inject
+	private LoginUtils loginUtils;
+	
 	@GZIP
 	@POST
 	@Path("")
-	//@Authenticate(shouldBeInAllRoles = RightUtils.ADMIN_RIGHT)
 	@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
 	@Operation(summary = "Add Customer Image to database")
 	@ApiResponse(responseCode = "200", description = "Add successfull")
-	public Response doAddCustomerPicture(@JsonSchemaValidate("schema/customer_picture_add.json") CustomerPictureValue customerPictureValue) {
+	public Response doAddCustomerPicture(@Context HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest, @JsonSchemaValidate("schema/customer_picture_add.json") CustomerPictureValue customerPictureValue) {
+		Optional<SecurityIdentity> identity = loginUtils.authenticate(httpServletRequest);
+		if (identity.isEmpty()) {
+			LOG.debug("identity empty login invalid");
+			return Response.status(401).build();
+		}
+		
+		
 		boolean success = customerPictureService.addCustomerPicture(customerPictureValue);
 
 		return success ? Response.ok().build() : Response.status(Status.BAD_REQUEST).build();
diff --git a/hartmann-foto-documentation-docker/src/main/docker/hartmann-foto-documentation-web-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.war b/hartmann-foto-documentation-docker/src/main/docker/hartmann-foto-documentation-web-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.war
index 6b21898..ed3659b 100644
Binary files a/hartmann-foto-documentation-docker/src/main/docker/hartmann-foto-documentation-web-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.war and b/hartmann-foto-documentation-docker/src/main/docker/hartmann-foto-documentation-web-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.war differ
diff --git a/hartmann-foto-documentation-docker/src/main/docker/standalone-fotodocumentation.xml b/hartmann-foto-documentation-docker/src/main/docker/standalone-fotodocumentation.xml
index 80c65ef..6144f70 100644
--- a/hartmann-foto-documentation-docker/src/main/docker/standalone-fotodocumentation.xml
+++ b/hartmann-foto-documentation-docker/src/main/docker/standalone-fotodocumentation.xml
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@
         <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:core-management:1.0"/>
         <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:datasources:7.1">
             <datasources>
+            <!-- Patrick -->
                 <datasource jndi-name="java:/jdbc/fotoDocumentationDS" pool-name="fotoDocumentationDS" enabled="true" use-java-context="true" use-ccm="false">
                     <connection-url>jdbc:postgresql://hartmann_postgres:5432/fotodocumentation</connection-url>
                     <driver>postgres</driver>
@@ -168,6 +169,7 @@
                     <security user-name="sa" password="sa"/>
                 </datasource>
                 <drivers>
+                <!-- Patrick -->
                      <driver name="postgres" module="org.postgresql.jdbc">
                         <xa-datasource-class>org.postgresql.xa.PGXADataSource</xa-datasource-class>
                     </driver>
@@ -300,7 +302,7 @@
 
                 <!-- patrick -->
                 <jdbc-realm name="fotoDocumentationRealm"  >
-                    <principal-query data-source="fotoDocumentationDS" sql="select password, salt, ri.code as Role from x_user u left join role_to_right rtr on rtr.role_id_fk = u.role_id_fk left join x_right ri on rtr.right_id_fk = ri.right_id where username = ?;">
+                    <principal-query data-source="fotoDocumentationDS" sql="select password, salt, ri.code as Role from x_user u left join user_to_right rtr on rtr.user_id_fk = u.user_id left join x_right ri on rtr.right_id_fk = ri.right_id where username = ?;">
                         <salted-simple-digest-mapper algorithm="password-salt-digest-sha-256" password-index="1" salt-index="2" />
                         <attribute-mapping>
                             <attribute to="groups" index="3"/>
diff --git a/hartmann-foto-documentation-docker/src/test/java/marketing/heyday/hartmann/fotodocumentation/rest/CustomerPictureTest.java b/hartmann-foto-documentation-docker/src/test/java/marketing/heyday/hartmann/fotodocumentation/rest/CustomerPictureResourceTest.java
similarity index 74%
rename from hartmann-foto-documentation-docker/src/test/java/marketing/heyday/hartmann/fotodocumentation/rest/CustomerPictureTest.java
rename to hartmann-foto-documentation-docker/src/test/java/marketing/heyday/hartmann/fotodocumentation/rest/CustomerPictureResourceTest.java
index f5b1ca2..74d8ec1 100644
--- a/hartmann-foto-documentation-docker/src/test/java/marketing/heyday/hartmann/fotodocumentation/rest/CustomerPictureTest.java
+++ b/hartmann-foto-documentation-docker/src/test/java/marketing/heyday/hartmann/fotodocumentation/rest/CustomerPictureResourceTest.java
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ import org.junit.jupiter.api.TestMethodOrder;
  * created: 14 Nov 2024
  */
 @TestMethodOrder(OrderAnnotation.class)
-public class CustomerPictureTest extends AbstractRestTest {
-	private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(CustomerPictureTest.class);
+public class CustomerPictureResourceTest extends AbstractRestTest {
+	private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(CustomerPictureResourceTest.class);
 	private static final String PATH = "api/customer-picture";
 	private static final String BASE_UPLOAD = "src/test/resources/upload/";
 
@@ -50,4 +50,18 @@ public class CustomerPictureTest extends AbstractRestTest {
 		int code = httpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
 		assertEquals(200, code);
 	}
+	
+	@Test
+	@Order(2)
+	public void doAddCustomerPictureNoAuth() throws IOException {
+		LOG.info("doAddCustomerPicture");
+		
+		String path = deploymentURL + PATH;
+		Request request = Request.Post(path).addHeader("Accept", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
+				.bodyFile(new File(BASE_UPLOAD + "add.json"), ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON);
+
+		HttpResponse httpResponse = executeRequest(request);
+		int code = httpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
+		assertEquals(401, code);
+	}
 }