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title: "Creating and Managing Policies"
slug: "policies"
updated: 2026-04-15T06:49:22Z
published: 2026-04-29T10:55:15Z
canonical: "docs.britive.com/policies"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.britive.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Creating and Managing Policies

## Creating a Policy

1. Log in to Britive.
2. Click on **System Admin** -> **Secret Management** -> **Britive Vault**.
3. Select the node where the policy needs to be created.
4. Click on the **Policies** tab. You can also select **Add Policy** from the overflow menu of a particular node.
5. Click on the **Add Policy** button to add a new policy and enter the following:
  - **General**
    - Enter the **Policy Name**.
    - Enter the description (optional).
    - **Access Type**: Select either **Allow** or **Deny**.
    - **Include all resources in the hierarchy below the resource path**?
  - **Members:**

    - **Users**: Click **Select Users** and add one or more members for this policy.
    - **Tags**: Click **Select Tags** and add one or more tags for this policy.
    - **Service identities**: Click **Select Service Identities** and add one or more service identities for this policy.
    - **AI identities**: Click **Select AI Identities** and add one or more AI identities for this policy.
    - **API tokens**: Click **Select API Tokens** and add one or more API tokens for this policy.
  - **Permissions**:
    - **Access Level**: The user gets access to the secrets based on the following:
      - View
      - Create, Edit
      - Manage
  - **Generic Conditions**:

    - IP based: Select if you want access based on the IP addresses. Enter an IP address or a list of comma-separated IP addresses in the text box.
    - Time based: Select the **Start and End Date/Time****Date-time range** or **Set Time Schedule** for applying the policy.
  - **Step-up Verification:**
    - Select **Yes** if step-up verification is required for this profile. The user is prompted for input based on the configured MFA for viewing secret details if this option is selected. The step-up verification validity is configured in the step-up verification validity settings in the **Security** tab. For more information, see [Configuring Step-up Verification Validity](/v1/docs/mfa-settings#https%3A//docs.britive.com/docs/mfa-settings#configuring-stepup-verification-validity).
    - Once step-up verification is enabled, you can check (Yes/No) if the previous successful verification can be used for subsequent viewing of secrets.
  - **Approvals**: Select whether the user needs approval to access a profile. Enter the following details if you select **Approval Required** as **Yes**:

    - **Notifications:** Select notification medium(s) using the **Add Notification** button. Before use, notification mediums can be created in the **Admin**->**Global Settings** section. For more details, see [Creating and Managing Notification Mediums](/v1/docs/notification-medium).
      - **Slack** or **Slack Application:**
        - (Optional) Specify the Slack Channel ID:
          1. To find the Slack Channel ID:
            1. Right-click on the Slack channel you want to use.
            2. Select **View Channel Details**.
            3. Scroll to the bottom to find the Channel ID.
          2. Click **Validate Channels** to validate the listed channels. Ensure you have integrated the Britive app with channels (private/public) before validating them. For more information about integrating the app, see [Configuring Slack App](https://docs.britive.com/docs/configuring-slack-app).Note:You can add only one Slack notification medium per policy.
      - **Teams** **Application:**
        1. (Optional) Specify the Team Name:
          1. To find the channels:
            1. Go to the Teams client.
            2. Select the Teams for which you want the list of channels.
            3. Click on **See all channels** to get the list of channels.
        2. Click **Validate Channels** to validate the listed channels.
    - **Manager Approval Settings:** Select Manager Approval if you want the requester's manager as an approver. You can select one of the following:
      - **Manager OR Approvers**: The manager or the approvers approve/reject the request.
      - **Manager AND Approvers**: The manager and approvers must approve/reject the request.
      - **Manager Only**: Only the requester's manager can approve/reject the request. You cannot select individual users or tags as approvers.
    - **Users:** Select the users from the list.
    - **Tags**: Select the tags from the list.
    - **Maximum time to Approve:** Enter the time in *Hours:Minutes* format. The approval request expires if it is not approved within the specified time.
    - **Approval Validity**: Enter the number of days or hours for access validity after the request is approved. Approval validity time must be between 1 and 30 days.
6. Click **Save and Enable** after all the configuration is done.

## Managing Policies

You can edit/enable/disable/delete a policy.

1. Log in to Britive.
2. Click on **System admin** -> **Secret Management** -> **Britive Vault**.
3. Click on the **Policies** tab.
4. Select the action for the policy to be managed.
  - **Manage Policy**: You can edit some parts of the policy after creating a policy. You can edit the secret name, description, and secret details based on the selected secret template.
  - **Enable/Disable Policy**: You can enable or disable a particular policy created by you.
  - **Delete**: Delete any policy created by you. A user can not delete predefined policies.