Policy

What is a Policy?

A policy is a rule that determines access.

For example, a rule could be that only people with names that start with “S” get access to specific resources. Other examples of policies could be duration of access or requiring manager approval before giving access.

Policies allow an organization to scale access via these dynamic rules.

Although policies is a fairly generic term across the industry, it has a very specific meaning in systems like AWS. It’s important to figure out what a policy is according to the system you’re using?

About Opal:

Opal is the unified identity platform for modern enterprises. Opal aggregates identity and access data to provide visibility and defense-in-depth infrastructure for mission-critical systems. With the product, enterprises can discover anomalous identity risks and remediate them in minutes. The world's best companies trust Opal to govern and adapt sensitive access.

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