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title: 'API docs: authentication.authenticationstrategyprovider.findauthenticationstrategy'
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[Home](./index.md) &gt; [@loopback/authentication](./authentication.md) &gt; [AuthenticationStrategyProvider](./authentication.authenticationstrategyprovider.md) &gt; [findAuthenticationStrategy](./authentication.authenticationstrategyprovider.findauthenticationstrategy.md)

## AuthenticationStrategyProvider.findAuthenticationStrategy() method

<b>Signature:</b>

```typescript
findAuthenticationStrategy(name: string): Promise<AuthenticationStrategy | undefined>;
```

## Parameters

|  Parameter | Type | Description |
|  --- | --- | --- |
|  name | string |  |

<b>Returns:</b>

Promise&lt;[AuthenticationStrategy](./authentication.authenticationstrategy.md) \| undefined&gt;