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    • How-To
      • Enable Tree view for API collections
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      • Remove API(s) from API group
      • Deactivating and Reactivating API Collections in Akto
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      • Copy API Endpoints Data
      • Add an API Collection
      • Set environment type
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      • Set Sensitivity of a Data Type
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      • Add a Custom Auth Type
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      • Create a custom collection
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  1. Account

Understanding Role Permissions

Akto uses a role-based access control system to manage user permissions. Each role has a specific set of permissions that determine what actions a user can perform within the platform.

Role Types

Role
Description

Admin

Full system administrator with complete control over all features. Can manage users, settings, and perform all administrative actions.

Security Engineer

Primary role for security testing and analysis. Has full access to testing features and API Inventory.

Developer

Technical role focused on integration and development. Has view access to security features and can manage integration settings.

Guest

Basic viewer role with view-only access to most features. Can view but cannot modify API Inventory.

Role Hierarchy

Admin
  └── Security Engineer
       └── Developer
            └── Guest

Feature Access & Descriptions

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Feature
Admin
Security Engineer
Developer
Guest
Description

API Inventory

API Collections

✅

✅

👁️

👁️

Manage and organize API endpoints

Traffic Filters

✅

✅

👁️

👁️

Configure API traffic filtering rules

Sample Data

✅

✅

👁️

👁️

Access to API sample data

Tags

✅

✅

👁️

👁️

Organize resources with tags

Testing Capabilities

Test Run

✅

✅

👁️

👁️

Initialize security tests

Test Results

✅

✅

👁️

👁️

View and analyze test outcomes

Test Editor

✅

✅

👁️

👁️

Create/modify test cases

Issues

✅

✅

👁️

👁️

Manage security issues

Settings

Integrations

✅

👁️

✅

👁️

Manage third-party integrations

Billing

✅

👁️

👁️

👁️

Access billing and subscription

User Management

✅

👁️

👁️

👁️

Manage user accounts and roles

Monitoring & Analysis

Metrics

✅

✅

👁️

👁️

View system performance metrics

Logs

✅

✅

👁️

👁️

Access system logs

Sensitive Data

✅

✅

👁️

👁️

Manage sensitive data detection

Common Features

Ask GPT

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✅

👁️

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AI-assisted analysis

Custom Roles

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Organizations can create custom roles to meet specific business needs by combining permissions from different standard roles. To create and manage custom roles, check the .

Custom roles documentation