Access Control Strategy

⚠️ INTERNAL ONLY — Platform + Website Architecture
Not intended for public distribution.

Cloudflare Access is the guardrail that keeps internal documentation restricted to authorized RCS staff. This page records the threats it mitigates, the controls we rely on, and the escalation path when something goes wrong.

Threats Addressed

• Unauthorized link sharing or bookmark leakage of https://docs.example.com.
• Search engine indexing or crawler discovery of sensitive documentation.
• Compromised contractor or vendor accounts attempting to reach internal docs.
• Stale sessions lingering beyond acceptable duration.

Controls

• Cloudflare Access Application protecting docs.example.com with deny-by-default policies.
• Group-based authorization sourced from the corporate identity provider (Google Workspace or GitHub Enterprise).
• Mandatory MFA enforced by the IdP before Cloudflare issues a session token.
• Short-lived sessions (≤ 12 hours) to limit exposure if devices are lost or shared.
• DNS stewardship ensuring the domain remains proxied through Cloudflare.
• Optional page rules / headers (X-Robots-Tag: noindex) to discourage indexing, even when Access is disabled temporarily.

Logging & Audit Expectations

• Access events must be visible in Cloudflare Zero Trust → Logs for at least 30 days.
• Security reviews sample log entries monthly to confirm group membership alignment.
• Any anomaly (multiple denied attempts, unexpected geographies) triggers an incident ticket.

Escalation Path

1. If Access policies fail or misroute traffic, notify the Platform and Security leads immediately.
2. Disable the Access application only as a coordinated break-glass action.
3. Open an incident record documenting:
   • Time of failure
   • Impacted users
   • Interim mitigation
   • Root cause analysis follow-up
4. Update this document and the Cloudflare Access runbook with any permanent changes.

Cloudflare Access is mandatory before inviting any stakeholder into internal documentation environments.