Products / Access policy
Connect identity, roles, groups, scopes and explicit resource assignments to the decision about what an actor may do.
Explore the design intent, review practical decisions and validate exact behavior against your deployed configuration.
Why it matters
Authentication answers who has presented credentials; authorization decides whether that identity can perform a particular action on a particular resource. Conflating the two leads to broad or implicit permissions.
Design intent
Represent permissions using explicit assignments and enforce them at the resource boundary. Where applicable, combine role membership with tenant scope, resource-specific access, session context and assurance requirements.
Worked scenario
An authenticated employee requests a sensitive application action; authorization checks the assigned role and resource scope before the action is allowed.
Boundary to verify
Confirm enforcement at the relevant server, API, resource or operational decision point. A hidden button or an informative dashboard is not, by itself, an authorization control.
Practical path
Use these stages as a review guide. Exact settings and enforcement points depend on the configured deployment and connected systems.
Identify the actor, target resource and operation that access & authorization is meant to govern.
Represent permissions using explicit assignments and enforce them at the resource boundary. Where applicable, combine role membership with tenant scope, resource-specific access, session context and assurance requirements.
An authenticated employee requests a sensitive application action; authorization checks the assigned role and resource scope before the action is allowed. Also test the path that should be denied, deferred or sent for review.
Check that the resulting state is understandable and that the decision can be investigated later. For audit-enabled operations, confirm the relevant actor and context are captured.
Before rollout
A capability is easier to operate when ownership, failure behavior and verification are defined upfront.
This page describes a design approach based on WebFrolic’s documented product model. Verify feature availability and exact behavior in your environment before relying on it for a control requirement.
Related capabilities
Follow the related areas to understand how this capability fits within identity, access, lifecycle and operations.
Evaluate with your scenario
Share the identities, resource boundary and decision you want to test. The walkthrough can focus on the relevant behavior rather than a generic feature tour.
