Team-Based Access Control

When someone joins a team, they get access. When they leave, it disappears.

Users belong to teams, projects, departments, and organizations. Access should follow those relationships automatically. With AuthZed, you never have to manually sync access or worry about stale permissions.

The problem with manual access management

Adding someone to a team should grant them access to team resources. Removing them should revoke it. But most authorization systems require you to:

• Write code that copies team membership into permission tables
• Run background jobs to sync changes (and debug them when they fail)
• Manually audit for users who left teams but still have access
• Handle edge cases like users on multiple teams with different roles

The result: permission changes take minutes instead of milliseconds, stale access creates security risks, and your team spends time on access management instead of building features.

How AuthZed handles team-based access

Access follows membership

Define the relationship once: "team members can view team resources." AuthZed evaluates membership at request time, so when you add someone to a team in your system, they have access immediately. No sync required.

Nested groups work automatically

Users belong to teams. Teams belong to departments. Departments belong to organizations. AuthZed traverses these hierarchies in milliseconds, so a user in the Engineering team automatically inherits access granted to the Engineering department.

Role inheritance without complexity

Team leads get different access than team members. Project owners can do more than contributors. Define roles once in your schema, and AuthZed applies them consistently across your entire application.

Changes take effect immediately

No waiting for cron jobs. No "please refresh in a few minutes." When team membership changes, the next permission check reflects that change. Strong consistency guarantees mean you never grant access that should have been revoked.

What you can build

Project workspaces

Team members access project files, conversations, and settings. When the project ends or team changes, access updates automatically.

Department resources

HR accesses HR systems. Engineering accesses engineering tools. Cross-functional teams get access to both, without duplicating permissions.

Customer organizations

Your customers' employees inherit access based on their internal team structure. Customer admins manage teams; permissions follow.

Contractor and vendor access

External collaborators join project teams with limited roles. When the engagement ends, removing them from the team revokes all access.

Assessment

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Common questions

• How do I model teams that belong to other teams?

• What happens if a user is on multiple teams with different roles?

• How do I handle team membership stored in an external system?

• Can team access be time-limited?

• What are the differences between RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC?

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