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# Applying methods to an application

Enabling a method here makes it available across the organisation. It does not yet apply to anything.

When you configure an application under **Manage Resources**, the **Authentication** step offers the methods enabled here, sorted into the Primary, Secondary and Tertiary slots you set in section 3. That is where you choose which factors a given application demands, and per role.

![Authentication modes available when configuring an application.](https://content.gitbook.com/content/W2srIAMN6RKFwvuEorV5/blobs/Qz5UVTDFu3PRQCYYhBUw/assets/image11.png)

This is how organisation-wide authentication methods are enabled, ranked and configured, ready to be applied to individual applications.

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To see how these methods are applied to a specific application, and how the primary, secondary and tertiary factors are set per role, refer to the **Authentication** step in *Manage Resources*.
{% endhint %}