The safeguards map / 3.6 Identity and authorization
OpenFGA
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An authorization system that stores relationships between users and objects and answers whether a user may take an action on an object.
Where it sits
3.6 Identity and authorization (primary): Stores relationship tuples and an authorization model, and answers queries about who may do what to which object, for the applications that call it.
OpenFGA is a scalable open source authorization system for developers that allows implementing authorization for any kind of application
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The same model backs authorization decisions across services, languages, and domains
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Facts
- Concern
- security
- Names the law
- no
- Subject
- software
- Used by
- those who run it
- Runs
- at runtime
- Policy comes from
- owner-entered settings
Handoffs
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