Group Direction - Authorization

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• Overview
• Priorities
• Jobs to be Done

Group	Authorization
Stage	Govern
Group	Authorization
Content Last Reviewed	2024-02-18

Overview

This is the direction page for the Authorization group in the Software Supply Chain Security stage. The Authorization group is responsible for ensuring that an authenticated user has access to the proper resources within the application. Additionally, the group builds capabilities to detect and prevent malicious activity from occurring within GitLab environments.

1. Permissions
2. Instance Resiliency

Priorities

Priority	Name	DRI	Target Release
1	Assign custom role when sharing a group to a 'project'	eugielimpin	17.10
2	Confidential	hmehra	17.10
3	Pre-selected permissions based on base default role	imand3r	17.10
4	Add Manage Protected Environments as a customizable permission	dlrussel	17.10
5	Add Manage Protected Tags as a customizable permission	abime	17.10
6	Job Token Permissions - Beta	alexbuijs	18.0
7	Custom Admin Role - Beta	jarka	18.0
8	Job Token Permissions - GA	alexbuijs	18.2
9	Custom Admin Role - GA	jarka	18.2

Jobs to be Done

The UX department has performed a JTBD Canvas for Authorization that can be found on this epic and figma file.

The main jobs for users related to Authorization capabilities include:

Main Job	Outcomes
Provision access rights	Minimize productivity loss coming from user’s lack of access to resources they need to do their job. Minimize security risk and data breaches coming from bad actors. Reduce manual work when managing user’s role and access to resources.
Maintain access policies	Minimize security risk and data breaches coming from bad actors. Increase compliance in industry related audits (eg SOC II). Standardize organization’s user and resource permission management across all software and applications.
Gain access rights	Decrease time spent on gaining access rights. Increase productivity Increase team collaboration.