organizationscoped

Organizationscoped is a design principle used in software systems to constrain resources, data, and policies to a single organization within a multi-tenant environment. The term denotes that the scope of an object is limited to the organizational context, preventing access by users or processes associated with other organizations unless explicit cross-organizational authorization is granted.

Within identity and access management, an organization-scoped role or policy applies only within the organizational boundary. In data governance and configuration management, organization-scoped datasets, settings, and audit logs are isolated per organization to support privacy, compliance, and predictable governance.

Implementation patterns typically include embedding the organization identifier in resource identifiers and URIs, enforcing organization-boundaries in access checks, and using role-based access control or attribute-based access control with organization-id as a key attribute.

Examples include a software-as-a-service platform serving multiple tenants, where a project resource is organization-scoped so only members of that organization can access it; sharing across organizations requires explicit approval and audit trails.

Benefits of organization-scoped design include stronger data isolation, clearer governance, and reduced risk of cross-tenant leakage. Limitations involve added complexity for legitimate cross-organization collaboration and potential overhead in enforcing boundaries.

The term is not universally standardized and may appear as a conceptual description in documentation for multi-tenant systems rather than a formal specification. See also multi-tenancy, tenant isolation, RBAC, and ABAC.