Gateway capabilities
- Permissioning
- Policy decisions
- Access evidence
Identity & Compliance · Design record
Governed identity and access
Treat people, applications, organisations, and agents as governed principals with explicit, revocable permissions.
01Identity provider→
02Institution→
03User or operator→
04Application or agent
Target business outcome
A shared identity and policy layer that translates enterprise roles into transaction and data access decisions.
Gateway implementation layer
Translate the workflow into a deployable operating boundary.
The record defines the financial problem. Gateway then maps the relevant Platform capabilities, privacy fit, deployment, specialist dependencies, and validation path.
Open Privacy Suite applicability
Core fit: permissions, selective disclosure, and audit are native Open Privacy Suite concerns.
Deployment
Integrated with institutional IAM and approved identity sources.
Partner dependencies
- Identity provider
- Policy owner
- Assurance
Implementation path01 · Map the flow02 · Validate the hardest assumption03 · Define the production boundary
Actors
- Identity provider
- Institution
- User or operator
- Application or agent
- Compliance function
- Auditor
Confidential data
- Personally identifiable information
- Credentials and risk attributes
- Role and entitlement data
- Access history
- Agent instructions
Public or shared evidence
- Credential validity or attribute proof
- Policy version
- Allow or deny receipt
- Tamper-evident access log
Regulator and auditor access
Compliance and audit roles can inspect identity, policy, and decision evidence according to purpose; applications receive the minimum attributes needed.
Institutional constraints
- Identity provider availability and revocation matter
- Role mapping differs across systems
- Break-glass access must be controlled
- Raw infrastructure paths must not bypass policy
Viable approaches
Enterprise identity federation
Map existing SSO, tenant, and role controls onto platform permissions.
Verifiable credentials
Use signed attributes for portable eligibility and selective disclosure.
Agent principal model
Give automated agents separate identity, scope, spend, and approval limits.
Questions to resolve during discovery
- Which identity source is authoritative?
- What happens when credentials are revoked or unavailable?
- Which permissions require four-eyes approval?
- How are agents separated from sponsoring users?
Relevant standards and frameworks
- OIDC and SAML
- DID and Verifiable Credentials
- NIST Zero Trust Architecture
- Enterprise IAM policy
Related cases
Continue through the adjacent operating questions.
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Selective disclosure for oversight
Provide authorised oversight roles with a scoped, time-bound view while limiting broader disclosure of confidential workflow data.
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Evidence and audit rails
Produce a durable chain of identity, policy, transaction, deployment, and operational evidence for assurance and supervision.
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Open use-case record →Start with the architecture
Turn governed identity and access into an institution-specific architecture.
A workshop maps the actors, authoritative records, disclosure requirements, operating boundary, and highest-risk assumptions into a proposed architecture.