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title: Authorization
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Cluster and cache operations can be restricted, intercepted and
modifed, or completely blocked based on configured access rights set for
the various cluster components.
- **[Implementing Authorization](implementing_authorization.html)**
To use authorization for client/server systems, your client connections must be authenticated by their servers.
- **[Method Invocation Authorizers](method_invocation_authorizers.html)**
Authorizers used during query execution, how to configure them and how to implement your own.
- **[Authorization Examples](authorization_example.html)**
This topic discusses the authorization examples provided in the product under `geode-core/src/main/java/org/apache/geode/examples/security`.