To help you enforce business rules and regulatory compliance, policies provide a single point of management for all the organizations owned by an enterprise account.
Each enterprise policy controls the options available for a policy at the organization level. You can choose to not enforce a policy, which allows organization owners to configure the policy for the organization, or you can choose from a set of options to enforce for all organizations owned by your enterprise.
For example, with the "Base permissions" policy, you can allow organization owners to configure the "Base permissions" policy for their organization, or you can enforce a specific base permissions level, such as "Read", for all organizations within the enterprise.
You can view the policies available to your enterprise on the Policies tab in your enterprise settings.
Next steps
You can apply governance policies to repositories at scale with custom properties. See Creating custom properties for repositories in your enterprise.