# Struggling with IAM and configuring security for your Serverless application?

**URL:** <https://forum.serverless.com/t/struggling-with-iam-and-configuring-security-for-your-serverless-application/5156>\
**Category:** Serverless FAQ\
**Tags:** security, iam\
**Created:** [July 18, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/struggling-with-iam-and-configuring-security-for-your-serverless-application/5156 "2018-07-18T22:46:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![rupakg](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.serverless.com/rupakg/32/900_2.png) [@rupakg](https://forum.serverless.com/u/rupakg)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/struggling-with-iam-and-configuring-security-for-your-serverless-application/5156/1 "2018-07-18T22:46:56Z")

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**Summary**  
Alex Debrie has a nice article to learn the basics concepts around IAM, and learn how to manage permissions for the Serverless user and your Lambda functions.

> **[The ABCs of IAM: Managing permissions with Serverless](https://www.serverless.com/blog/abcs-of-iam-permissions/)**
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> Learn the basics of IAM permissions with your Serverless projects.

**Related links**

- [How to configure Serverless to use an existing iamRole, S3 bucket for deployment?](http://forum.serverless.com/t/how-to-configure-serverless-to-use-an-existing-iamrole-s3-bucket-for-deployment/494)
- [Is it possible to use configure Lambda Function Resource-based Policies using serverless framework?](http://forum.serverless.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-configure-lambda-function-resource-based-policies-using-serverless-framework/4932)