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# Security and Permissions

Appfarm comes with enterprise-grade security, and with that - also a lot of settings related to security and permissions.

### Roles and Permissions

At the Appfarm Professional level, your should be familiar with the Built-in roles vs Custom roles, how Users and Service accounts are assigned to Roles and inherit their Permissions from the Assigned Roles.

You should be familiar with the Security article below, as well as all submenus of it. Much is this has already been covered in the Appfarm Fundamentals module [User handling and permissions](/appcademy/appfarm-fundamentals/user-handling-and-permissions.md).

**Article**:

* [Security](/reference/security.md)
* [Designing secure permissions](/reference/security/permissions/designing-secure-permissions.md) (essential)
* [Configure unauthenticated access](/how-to/authentication-and-access-control/unauthenticated-access.md)

### Security & Go-live Checklist

It is important to know about the common pitfalls (with regards to security and permissions) when going live with your solution.

**Articles**:

* [Security checklist](/how-to/security-testing-and-deployment/security-checklist.md)
* [Get ready for Production](/how-to/security-testing-and-deployment/ready-for-production.md)


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