Zero Trust Engineering — Policy conflict detection and precedence
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Automation and orchestration engineering reference for policy conflict detection and precedence, including policy, logical interfaces, recovery and assurance.
Purpose: Policy conflict detection and precedence. Domain: Automation and orchestration. Family: decision. Scenario trigger: Evaluate policy bundle containing overlapping rules. Input assurance: Rule scope, classification and ownership precedence. Evaluation: Detect contradictions, shadowing and obligations with conflicts. Governing policy: Deny precedence, exception ordering and conflict treatment policy. Resource-side obligation: Return deterministically resolved decision or explicit indeterminate. Protected concern: Enterprise authorization policy evaluation service. Logical interface: Rule identity scope priority conflict class outcome and source. Evidence: Rule conflict graph resolution rationale and affected resources. Failure: Unresolved mutually contradictory allow and deny rules. Required recovery: Reject ambiguous policy activation and request policy repair. Architectural invariant: Security-critical policy conflicts must never silently produce permit Adoption: replace reference roles with concrete owner-controlled services. Specify exact provider/consumer identities, schema fields and classifications, signal provenance and freshness, idempotency, authorization lifetime, timeout/retry limits, observation and tamper evidence. A denied or failed operation must not silently become a permitted one. Scope: original vendor-neutral, implementation-agnostic technical reference model. Illustrative logical components and behaviors are neither a deployed system nor evidence of regulatory compliance. Package identities remain stable within the package; cross-package semantic reconciliation requires separate explicit registry support.
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- Capability
- Automation and orchestration, Policy conflict detection and precedence
- Role
- Automation and orchestration owner
- Business Actor
- Access-requesting principal
- Activity
- Evaluate policy bundle containing overlapping rules, Verify: Rule scope, classification and ownership precedence, Assess: Detect contradictions, shadowing and obligations with conflicts, Execute: Return deterministically resolved decision or explicit indeterminate, Exception: Unresolved mutually contradictory allow and deny rules, Recover: Reject ambiguous policy activation and request policy repair, Collect additional authorization evidence
- Application Component
- Rule scope, classification and ownership precedence, Detect contradictions, shadowing and obligations with conflicts, Return deterministically resolved decision or explicit indeterminate
- Application
- Enterprise authorization policy evaluation service
- Policy
- Deny precedence, exception ordering and conflict treatment policy
- API
- Policy conflict detection and precedence logical interface
- Message/Event Schema
- Rule identity scope priority conflict class outcome and source
- Data Store
- Rule conflict graph resolution rationale and affected resources
- Control
- Policy conflict detection and precedence enforcement assurance
- Risk
- Unresolved mutually contradictory allow and deny rules risk
- Requirement
- Security-critical policy conflicts must never silently produce permit
- Measure
- Policy conflict detection and precedence assurance completeness
- Trust Boundary
- Policy conflict detection and precedence authority boundary
- State
- Conditionally authorized, Denied or additional proof required, Additional assurance required, Active authorization revoked