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Enhanced security
Enhanced security
Additional mechanisms to help protect your data:
ππ½ Grant granular access to the schema via access control rules, down to the operation, field and directive level.
ππ½ Define the API to be either public or private.
ππ½ The admin can grant user-role access to editing the schema.
This image shows how we can grant access to editing the schema based on the user role:
![Granting access to editing the schema based on the user role](/assets/guides/upstream-pro/settings-schema-editing-access.png)