# Security features

SonarQube Community Build comes with a number of global security features:

* On-board authentication and authorization mechanisms.
* The ability to force users to authenticate before they can see any part of a SonarQube instance.
* The ability to delegate to authentication.

Additionally, it’s possible to configure at a group or user level who can:

* See that a project even exists.
* Access a project’s source code.
* Administer a project (set exclusion patterns, tune plugin configuration for that project, etc.).
* Administer Quality Profiles, Quality Gates, and the SonarQube instance itself.

Another aspect of security is the encryption of settings such as passwords. SonarQube Community Build provides a built-in mechanism to encrypt settings.

See:

* [User accounts](/sonarqube-community-build/instance-administration/security/user-accounts.md)
* [Managing groups](/sonarqube-community-build/instance-administration/user-management/user-groups.md)
* [Managing permissions](/sonarqube-community-build/instance-administration/user-management/user-permissions.md)
* [Setting project permissions](/sonarqube-community-build/project-administration/setting-project-permissions.md)
* [Sensitive settings](/sonarqube-community-build/instance-administration/security/encrypting-settings.md)


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