Security foundations for Cape Town Basketball Association digital services: access control, authentication, data handling, auditability, and resilience.
This overview explains how the CTBA platform protects members and data in practice—from sign-in and role headers to audit trails—not every internal control or vendor detail.
The platform enforces role-based access across associations, clubs, teams, and personal scopes. API requests carry authenticated identity and active-role context; the backend validates permissions before returning or mutating data. Super administrators, exco, association administrators, treasurers, club admins, team staff, players, parents, officials, and public-style roles each receive a tailored menu and dataset—not global administrator powers by default.
Sensitive workflows (finance approvals, onboarding, audit exports, transfer executive steps) are restricted to designated roles.
Querysets and serializers filter by organisation relationships so one club cannot read another club’s private roster or financial detail through normal APIs.
Users authenticate with industry-standard patterns (for example password-based login with secure reset flows and bearer tokens for API access). Sessions and tokens are designed to expire or rotate according to deployment settings. Active role selection prevents accidental edits under the wrong organisational scope when a user holds multiple assignments.
Forgot-password and reset flows avoid exposing whether an email exists where possible and never send plaintext passwords by email.
Out-of-scope or unauthenticated requests are rejected at the permission layer, not only in the user interface.
Operational records—including payment proofs, identity documents, and match documents—are stored with ownership metadata and visibility rules aligned to dashboard permissions. File uploads are validated and linked to traceable database records so reviewers can audit submissions.
Critical create, update, delete, approval, assignment, and submission actions are designed to leave audit trails suitable for governance reviews and dispute investigation. Logs aim to capture who acted, in which scope, on which entity, and sometimes before/after snapshots depending on the module.
Treasurer POP decisions, transfer state changes, and similar high-risk events are especially important for accountability.
CTBA follows structured deployment and change practices appropriate to the environment. Infrastructure providers may emit security or availability telemetry. Members should still protect their own devices (screen lock, updates, phishing awareness) because endpoint security complements—but does not replace—server-side controls.
Report suspected incidents promptly through Contact or your club administrator so access can be reviewed and tokens revoked if needed.
