# Pattern: Kill Switch / Tenant Freeze

Status: seed
Readiness target: RL3 production
Primary owners: NetKingdom, product repos, Railiance platform
Genesis family: Detection and response

## Problem

Operators need a fast containment mechanism when a tenant, app, token,
or integration appears compromised or abusive.

## Context

Use this pattern for tenant compromise, runaway automation, abusive API
usage, malicious uploads, credential exposure, or legal/security holds.

## Forces

- Containment must be fast.
- Freezing a tenant can be high impact.
- Actions need scope, reason, approval, and audit.
- Recovery must be predictable and reversible where possible.

## Solution

Provide controlled kill-switch or tenant-freeze states that can block
login, API access, background jobs, credential vending, uploads, or data
mutation according to scoped policy.

## Verification

- Freeze actions take effect across API, jobs, credentials, and uploads.
- Scope and reason are recorded.
- Tenant-visible communication rules are defined.
- Unfreeze requires authorized review and audit.

## Related Patterns

- Tenant Isolation.
- Token Revocation Sweep.
- Incident Runbook Library.
- Central Audit Ledger.