[[servlet-authorization]]
= Authorization
The advanced authorization capabilities within Spring Security represent one of the most compelling reasons for its popularity.
Irrespective of how you choose to authenticate - whether using a Spring Security-provided mechanism and provider, or integrating with a container or other non-Spring Security authentication authority - you will find the authorization services can be used within your application in a consistent and simple way.

In this part we'll explore the different `AbstractSecurityInterceptor` implementations, which were introduced in Part I.
We then move on to explore how to fine-tune authorization through use of domain access control lists.

* xref:servlet/authorization/architecture.adoc[leveloffset=+1]
* xref:servlet/authorization/authorize-requests.adoc[leveloffset=+1]
* xref:servlet/authorization/expression-based.adoc[]
* xref:servlet/authorization/secure-objects.adoc[]
* xref:servlet/authorization/method-security.adoc[]
* xref:servlet/authorization/acls.adoc[]