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# Authress - Knowledge Base
## Docs
- [Auth Academy](https://authress.io/knowledge-base/academy/topics): Learn everything there is to know about Auth through these easy to follow articles in the Authress Academy.
- [Choosing the best access control strategy](https://authress.io/knowledge-base/academy/topics/access-control-strategies): A comparison of different access control strategies such as role-based access control (RBAC) and others.
- [Securing your secrets: Credential management](https://authress.io/knowledge-base/academy/topics/credential-management): Keeping credentials secure can be a nightmare. Here, we'll explore the different ways to keep your sensitive credentials and private keys secure.
- [How does machine to machine authentication work?](https://authress.io/knowledge-base/academy/topics/how-does-machine-to-machine-auth-work): Machine to machine auth is how you ensure secure communication between individual services, and each service can authorize others to access protected resources.
- [What is Authentication?](https://authress.io/knowledge-base/academy/topics/implementating-user-login): Learn how to securely implement Authentication and user Login. Here we'll review what auth means, how to use JWTs, and why we need them.
- [Denylists and Invaliding user access](https://authress.io/knowledge-base/academy/topics/invalidating-user-access): Learn how to securely log a user out, revoke or invalidate the current access, and support denylists in your application for OAuth JWTs
- [Down scoping tokens and permission attenuation](https://authress.io/knowledge-base/academy/topics/offline-attenuation): What is permission attenuation and how to deal with potentially untrusted environments.
- [The risks of user impersonation](https://authress.io/knowledge-base/academy/topics/user-impersonation-risks): User impersonation and logging in as a customer can be used as a tool to help identify many issues from user authentication and onboarding to corrupted data in co