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Aegis IAM

Enterprise identity & access management platform

Planned flagship system focused on identity, authentication, authorization and enterprise access controls.

Architecture / Planning

Overview

Aegis IAM is a proposed enterprise identity and access management platform focused on authentication, authorization, policy enforcement and auditable access decisions.

The problem

Enterprise applications need consistent identity and authorization boundaries across services, while access decisions must remain understandable, testable and auditable.

Engineering challenges

  • Separating authentication from authorization and policy evaluation.
  • Supporting role- and policy-based access without scattering checks across applications.
  • Making privileged access and security-sensitive events auditable.

Proposed identity and policy architecture

The design centers identity and policy as shared platform capabilities exposed through explicit service boundaries.

  • Identity provider → authentication
  • Identity + resource + action → policy evaluation
  • Policy decision → service authorization
  • Security events → audit trail
  • Administrative changes → controlled policy lifecycle

Engineering decisions

01

Centralize policy evaluation

Context

Distributed authorization logic becomes inconsistent and difficult to audit.

Decision

Keep authorization policy in a dedicated policy boundary.

Rationale

A centralized model makes access behavior easier to test, review and evolve.

Evidence

What the project can prove.

StatusArchitecture / Planning

Implementation has not yet started.

Lessons learned

  • Identity is a platform concern, not a collection of login screens.
  • Authorization decisions need explicit policy boundaries and auditability.

What comes next

  • Implement authentication and token lifecycle.
  • Build RBAC and policy evaluation.
  • Add audit events and security-focused integration tests.