Role-Based Access Control & Principle of Least Privilege

What RBAC Means at Jeeva AI

Role-Based Access Control is the organising principle that governs every permission in the company. Rather than assigning privileges directly to individuals or services, Jeeva AI issues roles—re-usable permission bundles whose scopes are defined in code and stored alongside the product source. A role expresses exactly which APIs, data classes and infrastructure commands are legal; anything not listed is denied by default.

Request-and-Approval Workflow

When someone needs a new capability—say, a marketing analyst requesting query access—their manager raises an access-request ticket. Automated checks confirm that the requester already belongs to the right directory group and that the requested actions live in the catalogue of approved capabilities. Failing either test diverts the ticket to a gated approval chain where the resource owner and Operations team sign off. Once approved, the change is merged into the Git-based access manifest; continuous-integration jobs validate hierarchy constraints and then push the update to cloud IAM, Kubernetes service accounts and the policy engine that every micro-service consults at runtime.

Layered Enforcement

In the cloud estate, Terraform injects narrowly scoped IAM roles per environment. Engineers can spin up test resources in a development account yet lack permission even to list production buckets. At the application tier, the policy engine uses the SSO role claim plus tenant context to decide whether a UI button, REST endpoint or background worker call should proceed, ensuring API and UI behaviour never diverge.

Lifecycle Automation

Onboarding and off-boarding are fully automated. Adding a newcomer to the correct directory group causes the next SAML assertion to map to the intended role, instantly activating dashboards, quotas and data masks. Disabling that directory account for a departing colleague fires web-hooks that kill live sessions, revoke tokens, rotate any service keys owned by the identity and log the chain of events in the immutable audit stream.

Scheduled Review & Continuous Assurance

Least-privilege is not set-and-forget. Every quarter a scheduled job assembles a live permissions manifest and emails it to role owners for attestation. Owners can accept, downgrade or revoke in one click; the decision flows back to Git and redeploys automatically, creating an audit trail without spreadsheets. Nightly scanners flag dormant privileges—roles unused for ninety days—and open defects if they linger past SLA.

Segregation of Duties Inside the CI/CD Pipeline

No engineer can single-handedly alter code and ship it. Source control requires at least one reviewer from outside the author’s role, and deployment credentials live in a service account that only the CI/CD runner can assume after all policy and test gates pass. This separation of author, reviewer and deployer prevents silent privilege creep and satisfies internal change-management rules.

Tenant-Defined Precision

Enterprise customers often need fine-grained separation such as region-specific data stewards or read-only finance auditors. Administrators can craft bespoke roles—“APAC Marketing Viewer,” for instance—through a JSON editor in the console. The platform validates each definition against the same schema used internally and makes the new role immediately available for SSO attribute mapping.

Outcome

The result is a provable, continuously verified lattice of permissions: every grant is reviewed, every session is scoped, and every change is traceable from directory group to cloud policy. Security teams see real-time posture, engineers avoid environment-bleed mishaps, and auditors receive a single authoritative manifest—no manual reconciliation required.