# Access Controls - ACLs

Access Controls (ACLs) are a powerful component of the Netmaker platform, which give Zero Trust functionalities, determining which resources have access to which other resources, on specified ports and IPs, as well as defining directionality.

If you have deployed multiple use cases within a single network, you will want to use Access Controls to segment these use cases.

For example, if you have defined remote access to multiple sites, different groups of users might need access to only one of those sites, and should not have access to the others. This can be managed with Access Controls.

You can learn more about configuring ACLs in the following documentation.

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[ACLs - Access Controls](/features/acls-access-controls.md)
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[How to Manage Access Controls - ACLs](/getting-started/walkthrough/how-to-manage-access-controls-acls.md)
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## Next Steps

We did not mention configuring Routers in the previous sections, which we will cover in the next. We'll will walk through setting up site-to-site connectivity using Netmaker. There are two primary approaches to this, using WireGuard configuration files, or using the Netclient.


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