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Security and Governance

Summary​

Platform administration is an authenticated, auditable control-plane function. Safe operation depends on tenant scope, least privilege, idempotent change patterns, protected secrets, data isolation, and reviewed ownership.

Audience​

  • Platform and customer administrators
  • Implementation, support, engineering, architecture, security, and product teams

Purpose​

These principles summarize public-safe controls visible in source and identify governance decisions that require organizational approval.

Architecture​

Business concepts​

  • Tenant-scoped administration: tenant-owned operations validate the target tenant; client-owned data also requires a valid tenant/client link.
  • Role-based platform administration: source protects administration endpoint groups with authenticated platform-admin checks. Exact trust and role mechanics are not public procedures.
  • Auditability: administrative changes, provisioning stages, lifecycle events, and selected configuration changes create audit, timeline, or outbox records.
  • Idempotent provisioning: repeated provision/resume operations check completed work and existing records.
  • Least privilege: operators and services should receive only the platform or tenant scope required for their task.
  • Data isolation: Platform owns control-plane data; optional tenant data boundaries and Identity-owned data remain separate concerns.
  • Secret injection: secret material belongs in approved secret-management/runtime injection, while Platform stores references and metadata where supported.
  • Restricted operations: internal or environment-specific operations require separate controlled runbooks and authorization.
  • Review and approval: plan, license, entitlement, global configuration, lifecycle, and production-enablement changes need named business and technical owners.

Technical implementation​

Authentication and authorization middleware is registered by Platform, and protected endpoint groups apply authorization filters. Persistence-backed audit/timeline records and the outbox support traceability. These mechanisms do not replace approved access reviews, retention policy, operational monitoring, or separation-of-duties controls.

Source References​

  • microservices/src/platform-service/Program.cs
  • microservices/src/platform-service/Api/PlatformAdminEndpoints.cs
  • microservices/src/platform-service/Api/PlatformTenantOnboardingEndpoints.cs
  • microservices/src/platform-service/Application/TenantProvisioningOrchestrator.cs
  • microservices/src/platform-service/Application/ConfigurationService.cs
  • microservices/src/platform-service/Data/PlatformOutboxWriter.cs
  • microservices/src/platform-service/Domain/Entities/ConfigurationEntities.cs
  • microservices/src/platform-service/Data/PlatformDbContext.cs

See Also​

Keywords​

  • Administrative governance
  • Audit trail
  • Tenant isolation
  • Least privilege

Revision Information​

  • Status: Draft
  • Last reviewed: 2026-07-14
  • Review cycle: Quarterly