diff --git a/dashboard/src/app/page.tsx b/dashboard/src/app/page.tsx
index 8fbe383..3d3dd10 100644
--- a/dashboard/src/app/page.tsx
+++ b/dashboard/src/app/page.tsx
@@ -1,52 +1,15 @@
-'use client';
+'use server';
 
-import React, { useCallback, useEffect, useState } from 'react';
-import { kratos, LogoutLink } from '@/ory';
-import { useRouter } from 'next/navigation';
+import React from 'react';
 import { ThemeToggle } from '@/components/themeToggle';
-import { Session } from '@ory/client';
-import { LogOut } from 'lucide-react';
-import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button';
-
-export default function Page() {
-
-    const router = useRouter();
-
-    const [session, setSession] = useState<Session>();
-    const loadSession = useCallback(async () => {
-        console.log(kratos.toSession());
-        return kratos.toSession();
-    }, [router]);
-
-    useEffect(() => {
-
-        if (session) {
-            return;
-        }
-
-        loadSession()
-            .then((response) => {
-                console.log(response.data);
-                response.data && setSession(response.data);
-            })
-            .catch(() => {
-                const authentication_url = process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_AUTHENTICATION_NODE_URL;
-                const dashboard_url = process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_AUTHENTICATION_NODE_URL;
-                authentication_url && dashboard_url &&
-                router.push(authentication_url + '/flow/login?return_to=' + dashboard_url);
-            });
-
-    }, [router, session]);
-
-    const onLogout = LogoutLink();
+import { LogoutButton } from '@/components/auth/logout';
 
+export default async function Page() {
     return (
         <div className="flex flex-col min-h-screen items-center text-3xl relative space-y-4">
             <div className="absolute flex flex-row w-fit items-center space-x-4 top-4 right-4">
                 <ThemeToggle/>
-                <Button variant="outline" size="icon" onClick={onLogout}>
-                    <LogOut className="h-[1.2rem] w-[1.2rem]"/>
-                </Button>
+                <LogoutButton/>
             </div>
         </div>
     );
diff --git a/dashboard/src/components/auth/logout.tsx b/dashboard/src/components/auth/logout.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c34c87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dashboard/src/components/auth/logout.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+'use client';
+
+import { LogOut } from 'lucide-react';
+import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button';
+import { LogoutLink } from '@/ory';
+
+export function LogoutButton() {
+
+    const onLogout = LogoutLink();
+
+    return (
+        <Button variant="outline" size="icon" onClick={onLogout}>
+            <LogOut className="h-[1.2rem] w-[1.2rem]"/>
+        </Button>
+    );
+}
diff --git a/dashboard/src/middleware.ts b/dashboard/src/middleware.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7bfb759
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dashboard/src/middleware.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import { NextResponse } from 'next/server';
+import { getFrontendApi } from '@/ory/sdk/hydra';
+import { cookies } from 'next/headers';
+
+export async function middleware() {
+
+    const api = await getFrontendApi();
+    const cookie = await cookies();
+
+    const session = await api
+        .toSession({ cookie: 'ory_kratos_session=' + cookie.get('ory_kratos_session')?.value })
+        .then((response) => response.data)
+        .catch(() => null);
+
+    if (!session) {
+
+        console.log('NO SESSION');
+
+        const url = process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_AUTHENTICATION_NODE_URL +
+            '/flow/login?return_to=' +
+            process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_DASHBOARD_NODE_URL;
+
+        console.log('REDIRECT TO', url);
+
+        return NextResponse.redirect(url);
+    }
+
+    return NextResponse.next();
+}
+
+export const config = {
+    matcher: '/((?!api|_next/static|_next/image|favicon.png|sitemap.xml|robots.txt).*)',
+};