Policy Complexity

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Security Core

Record: lexicon:policy-complexity

Canonical: Lexicon

The difficulty of understanding, maintaining, and reasoning about a policy as its rules multiply.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Performance and before Readability.

Category

• Quality Attributes

In tension with

• Authorization
• Attribute-Based Access Control
• Authorization / Policy Complexity
• Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) / Policy Complexity

Linked from

• Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance
• The resolutions