diff --git a/site/content/en/latest/user/security/basic-auth.md b/site/content/en/latest/user/security/basic-auth.md
index 4576c6e60b4..be165d2e0e2 100644
--- a/site/content/en/latest/user/security/basic-auth.md
+++ b/site/content/en/latest/user/security/basic-auth.md
@@ -21,9 +21,58 @@ Envoy Gateway uses [.htpasswd][.htpasswd] format to store the username-password
 The file must be stored in a kubernetes secret and referenced in the [SecurityPolicy][SecurityPolicy] configuration. 
 The secret is an Opaque secret, and the username-password pairs must be stored in the key ".htpasswd".
 
+### Create a root certificate
+
+Create a root certificate and private key to sign certificates:
+
+```shell
+openssl req -x509 -sha256 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -subj '/O=example Inc./CN=example.com' -keyout example.com.key -out example.com.crt
+```
+
+### Create a certificate secret
+
+Create a certificate and a private key for `www.example.com`:
+
+```shell
+openssl req -out www.example.com.csr -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout www.example.com.key -subj "/CN=www.example.com/O=example organization"
+openssl x509 -req -days 365 -CA example.com.crt -CAkey example.com.key -set_serial 0 -in www.example.com.csr -out www.example.com.crt
+```
+
+### Create certificate 
+
+```shell
+kubectl create secret tls example-cert --key=www.example.com.key --cert=www.example.com.crt
+```
+
+### Enable HTTPS
+Update the Gateway from the Quickstart guide to include an HTTPS listener that listens on port `443` and references the
+`example-cert` Secret:
+
+```shell
+kubectl patch gateway eg --type=json --patch '[{
+   "op": "add",
+   "path": "/spec/listeners/-",
+   "value": {
+      "name": "https",
+      "protocol": "HTTPS",
+      "port": 443,
+      "tls": {
+        "mode": "Terminate",
+        "certificateRefs": [{
+          "kind": "Secret",
+          "group": "",
+          "name": "example-cert",
+        }],
+      },
+    },
+}]'
+```
+
 ### Create a .htpasswd file
 First, create a [.htpasswd][.htpasswd] file with the username and password you want to use for authentication. 
 
+Note: Please always use HTTPS with Basic Authentication. This prevents credentials from being transmitted in plain text.
+
 The input password won't be saved, instead, a hash will be generated and saved in the output file. When a request
 tries to access protected resources, the password in the "Authorization" HTTP header will be hashed and compared with the 
 saved hash.
@@ -40,7 +89,8 @@ You can also add more users to the file:
 htpasswd -bs .htpasswd foo1 bar1
 ```
 
-### Create a kubernetes secret
+### Create a basic-auth secret
+
 
 Next, create a kubernetes secret with the generated .htpasswd file in the previous step.
 
@@ -94,13 +144,22 @@ curl -v -H "Host: www.example.com" "http://${GATEWAY_HOST}/"
 You should see `401 Unauthorized` in the response, indicating that the request is not allowed without authentication.
 
 ```shell
+* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 443
 ...
-< HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
+* Server certificate:
+*  subject: CN=www.example.com; O=example organization
+*  issuer: O=example Inc.; CN=example.com
+> GET / HTTP/2
+> Host: www.example.com
+> User-Agent: curl/8.6.0
+> Accept: */*
+...
+< HTTP/2 401
 < content-length: 58
 < content-type: text/plain
-< date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 12:43:32 GMT
-< server: envoy
-< 
+< date: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:59:36 GMT
+<
+
 * Connection #0 to host 127.0.0.1 left intact
 User authentication failed. Missing username and password.
 ```
@@ -108,7 +167,7 @@ User authentication failed. Missing username and password.
 Send a request to the backend service with `Authentication` header:
 
 ```shell
-curl -v -H "Host: www.example.com" -u 'foo:bar' "http://${GATEWAY_HOST}/"
+curl -kv -H "Host: www.example.com" -u 'foo:bar' "https://${GATEWAY_HOST}/" 
 ```
 
 The request should be allowed and you should see the response from the backend service.
@@ -124,6 +183,7 @@ Delete the SecurityPolicy and the secret
 ```shell
 kubectl delete securitypolicy/basic-auth-example
 kubectl delete secret/basic-auth
+kubectl delete secret/example-cert
 ```
 
 ## Next Steps