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title: "The AntiCheat"
description: "How the Asphyxia FiveM resource protects your server, and what each of its systems does."
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# The AntiCheat

Asphyxia is a single FiveM resource that runs alongside your framework. It
watches for cheating on both the client and the server, keeps a record of what
it finds, and enforces bans — while reporting everything back to your
[web dashboard](/website).

## The short version

The resource has two halves that check each other:

- **On the client**, a set of detections watch for the things cheat menus do —
  moving through walls, taking no damage, spawning things that shouldn't exist.
- **On the server**, Asphyxia validates what clients report, watches events and
  entity spawns directly, and is the only side that can actually ban anyone.

A cheater can tamper with the client half. They cannot make the server believe
the client is still healthy, because the server is the one keeping score — see
[the heartbeat](/anticheat/heartbeat).

## Systems

- **Heartbeat** — Confirms a protected client is still running, and carries detections back.
- **Strikes** — Graduated punishment for behaviour that isn't conclusive on its own.
- **Fingerprinting** — Recognises a banned player who came back on a new account.
- **Global banlist** — A shared list of cheaters caught across every Asphyxia server.
- **Detections** — What Asphyxia looks for, and what it does when it finds it.
- **Admin menu** — Moderate from in-game, including the entity inspector.

## Getting set up

Start with [Installation](/anticheat/installation), then set your
[server.cfg values](/anticheat/server-config). If something isn't working,
[Troubleshooting](/anticheat/troubleshooting) covers the errors you're most
likely to hit.

## Building on top of it

Other resources can react to what Asphyxia does, and can ask it to act, through
[exports](/anticheat/exports) and [events](/anticheat/events).

Source: https://docs.asphyxia.dev/anticheat/index.mdx