# What Is AAA Security? What Are the AAA Protocols?

DevFeed: [What Is AAA Security? What Are the AAA Protocols?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-is-aaa-security-what-are-the-aaa-protocols-29546.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/aaa-security-protcols-for-network-access/>)

Author: sakshyam.shah@goteleport.com (Sakshyam Shah)

Published: 2022-02-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Teleport](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/teleport.md>)

Topics: [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Networks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networks.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>), [Single sign-on (SSO)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sso.md>)

Tags: [access-control](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/access-control.md>), [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authorization.md>), [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [protocols](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/protocols.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [sso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sso.md>)

## AI overview

This blog post explains AAA security--authentication, authorization, and accounting--and how AAA protocols provide centralized access control for network services and devices. It also reviews their use in corporate networks, ISPs, cellular networks, and network equipment.

## Source excerpt

This blog post explains how AAA (Triple-A) security works for network access controls and reviews three popular AAA protocols.