Organizations & teams

An organization is the top-level container for everything you do in BestDefense. It owns your sites, reports, members, integrations, and billing. Most administration happens at the organization level.

Working across organizations

You can belong to more than one organization — for example, your own company and a client’s. Switch between them from the menu in the top bar. Switching changes which organization’s data you see and which subscription applies, so always check that the right organization is active before you run a scan, invite someone, or change settings.

Note

Each organization has its own members, integrations, and subscription. Work you do in one organization is isolated from the others.

What an organization owns

• Sites (targets) — the web apps and APIs you scan. See Core concepts.
• Reports — the results of Vortex scans, Maelstrom load tests, and network scans.
• Members and teams — the people who have access, and how they’re grouped.
• Integrations — version control, Jira, SonarQube, and SSO, configured per organization. See Integrations.
• Billing — the subscriptions and credits that govern what the organization can do. See Billing & subscription tiers.

Teams

A team is an organization-scoped group of members. Teams make it easier to organize people by function — for example, an application security team and a platform team — and to reason about who has access to what.

To work with teams, open your organization’s settings and go to the teams area. From there you can:

• Create a team and give it a name.
• Add members to the team.
• Remove members from the team.

What a team member can actually do is governed by their role and by allow-rules, not by team membership alone. Teams are a way to organize people; access is granted by roles and rules. See Members & roles and Allow-rules.

Tip

Removing someone from the organization also removes them from every team they belonged to. You don’t need to clean up team membership separately.