Access Control
You can define access control rules to restrict access to your connections
![](https://mintlify.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/hoopdev/images/learn/access-control_light.png)
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Prerequisites
To get the most out of this guide, you will need to:
- Either create an account in our managed instance or deploy your own hoop.dev instance
- You must be your account administrator to perform the following actions
Set-up Access Control
Navigate to Access Control settings
Find the access control section in the left sidebar and click on it.
![](https://mintlify.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/hoopdev/images/learn/access-control-print.png)
Click Activate
Make sure you are aware of the implications of activating access control to your organization, it will require manual configuration of each connection. After this is activated, users might stop seeing their connections if they don’t have the right permissions.
![](https://mintlify.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/hoopdev/images/learn/access-control-confirm-print.png)
Choose the connections
In this step you will need to manually select and toggle the connections you want to apply access control to. If you don’t toggle a connection, it won’t apply the role groups and users might stop seeing them.
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Finally, select the groups
Find the groups you want to give access to each connection
![](https://mintlify.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/hoopdev/images/learn/access-control-add-groups-print.png)