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Access Control

Permissions at the level of individual actions

Not viewer, editor, admin. Permission bundles operate on specific lifecycle transitions, roles are scoped to entities, and separation-of-duties pairs decide who may move what, which is what makes segregation of duties demonstrable to an auditor.

  • Role bundles composed from individual permission codenames
  • Module-level access granted per company and per user; object-level scope per role
  • Per-user permission overrides where a bundle does not fit
  • Segregation-of-duties conflict rules with recorded exceptions
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In the application · Administer

  • Users
  • Roles
  • Modules
  • Scope administration
  • SoD rules
  • Audit log
Asset module permission bundles by lifecycle action
Actionasset-viewerasset-coordinatorasset-approverasset-admin
ViewAllowedAllowedAllowedAllowed
Create and editNot allowedAllowedNot allowedAllowed
Submit for intakeNot allowedAllowedNot allowedAllowed
Send to reviewNot allowedAllowedNot allowedAllowed
Send backNot allowedAllowedAllowedAllowed
ApproveNot allowedNot allowedAllowedAllowed
ActivateNot allowedNot allowedAllowedAllowed
Module settingsNot allowedNot allowedNot allowedAllowed

Every module ships bundles at this granularity. Segregation-of-duties conflicts are declared as rules, with logged exceptions.

Enforcement

Checked centrally, every time, and again at the database

Authorisation runs through a single permission service rather than scattered checks. Beneath it, row-level security in the database enforces company boundaries on every query, for every module, so application code cannot leak across tenants.

  • Permission checks resolved centrally against user, company and codename
  • Database row-level security as a second, independent boundary
  • Configurable password policy
  • Company-level overrides on system conflict rules

Draft·asset-coordinator creates

Evidence

An audit log that cannot be edited

Platform activity is written to an append-only log, which is the difference between saying changes are tracked and being able to prove it.

  • Immutable platform audit log
  • Module-specific audit trails alongside it
  • Segregation-of-duties exceptions recorded rather than silently granted
  • Explain-access tooling: why a given user can or cannot see a module

Treatment decision

  1. 1Treatment planActions with owners, priority, and due dates
  2. 2Action trackingStatus per action, SLA where defined
  3. 3ReassessmentResidual score recalculated after closure

Framework alignment

Works with your control frameworks

This module shares the platform control library. International standards, sector regulations and your own internal standard are loaded the same way and mapped to one another, wherever you operate.

See access control in your environment

A walkthrough scoped to your entities, your frameworks, and the way your programme is actually run.