Granular Access Control

We provide a unified management console for customers to mange their access policies for apps deployed in scattered environments. For example, some applications are deployed in AWS, Azure Cloud, and some applications are deployed on premise. All of them can be managed by our DCMC.

You can configure access control to an application based on user's attributes (e.g., groups, department) and other metadata of a request (e.g., URL, IP, http method, access time) on DCMC.

For a particular http request trying to access the app, the configured rules are executed sequentially based on the priority numbers. The rule with a smaller priority number has higher priority.

A rule includes two parts: conditions and action. If the conditions of a request are met, then the action of the request is decided, either allow or deny. If none of the rules' conditions are met, the default action of all requests is taken, which can be configured as shown below.

Our rule is Resource Path oriented. It means that you define the access rules for a URL of your app. For example, you may want to set your default action to deny for all paths. But for the hr resource path, you want it to only be accessed by people in the hr group from 8AM to 5PM on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on IP section 10.10.6.24/24. You can then configure as follows.

The following table summarises the fields of rules.

Fields of Rule	Description
Rule Name	A name for this specific rule
Resource Path	Choose prefix or exact URI
Priority	Positive integer only
Rule Type	Protect or Not Protect
Rule Decision	Allow or Deny

Please be aware of Priority : Lower number indicates higher priority. 100 is highly recommended for your first rule configuration in order to add other rules with different priority levels.

The following table summarizes the conditions of rules.

Conditions	Description
User Attribute	Attributes from IdP
IP Section	IP address
Method	HTTP method
Date and time	Server time zone
Group	Group name