# Policy Complexity

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

Record: `lexicon:policy-complexity`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Security Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/security-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-policy-complexity

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Performance](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/performance.md) and before [Readability](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/readability.md).

## Category

- [Quality Attributes](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/quality-attributes.md)

## In tension with

- [Authorization](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/authorization.md)
- [ABAC](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/attribute-based-access-control.md)
- [Authorization / Policy Complexity](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/authorization-policy-complexity.md)
- [ABAC / Policy Complexity](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/abac-policy-complexity.md)

## Linked from

- [Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-security-privacy-compliance-governance.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)