== Policy Enforcement Modes

Resource servers provide a *Policy Enforcement Mode* configuration option that dictates how policies are enforced when processing authorization requests sent to the server.

* *Enforcing*
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This is the default mode. Requests are denied by default even when there is no policy associated with a given resource.
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* *Permissive*
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Requests are allowed even when there is no policy associated with a given resource.
* *Disabled*
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Completely disables the evaluation of policies and allow access to any resource.