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# Access Management Overview

> For the full documentation index, see: https://docs.mulesoft.com/llms.txt

Access Management is the central hub for managing user access, authentication, and permissions
across your Anypoint Platform organization.

Use Access Management to
[create your Anypoint Platform account](https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/managing-your-account#how-to-create-your-account) and
configure your user profile.

Organization owners and administrators can use Access Management to:

- [Invite and manage users](https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/users) in your organization.

- Create [business groups](https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/business-groups) to contain your Anypoint Platform resources such as apps
  and APIs.

- Create [environments](https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/environments) to manage app and API deployment.

- [Assign permissions to individual users](https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/managing-permissions) or set up hierarchical user
  management by using the [Teams](https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/teams) feature to manage access to assets and areas of your
  organization.

- Manage user identity and configure single sign-on (SSO) by using
  [external identity providers (IdPs)](https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/external-identity).

- Protect your organization from unauthorized access by using
  [multi-factor authentication](https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/multi-factor-authentication).

- Authorize client applications by configuring [external client providers](https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/managing-api-clients).

- View user and connected app activity by using [audit logs](https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/audit-logging).

- Develop and configure [connected apps](https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/connected-apps-overview) to delegate access to Anypoint
  Platform.

- Grant [external organizations](https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/external-organization-access) access to your resources to enable
  cross-organization collaboration.

Access Management also provides a REST API for you to programmatically access the resources related
to user and client management, organizations and business groups, and roles and permissions. To use
the Access Management API, see the
[Access Management API Portal](https://dev-portal.mulesoft.com/apis/access-management.html).

Depending on your [Anypoint Platform deployment type](https://docs.mulesoft.com/hosting-home/), some Access Management
features may be unavailable to your organization. For example, account creation and user invitation
from Anypoint Platform isn’t available for Anypoint Platform Private Cloud Edition. Certain features
are also unavailable for MuleSoft Government Cloud.

Organization administrators can contact your MuleSoft Account Team for help with your account. If
you’re not an administrator, contact your organization administrator.

## See Also

- [Create Your Account](https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/managing-your-account#how-to-create-your-account)

- [Managing Users](https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/users)

- [Permissions in Anypoint Platform](https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/managing-permissions)

- [Using Teams to Manage User Permissions](https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/teams)

- [Using Roles to Manage Permissions](https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/roles)

- [Access Management API Portal](https://dev-portal.mulesoft.com/apis/access-management.html)