diff --git a/.changeset/small-avocados-decide.md b/.changeset/small-avocados-decide.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dc5cea1184
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/small-avocados-decide.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-techdocs-backend': patch
+---
+
+Add support for permissions to the DefaultTechDocsCollator by adding the visibilityPermission prop and including authorization.resourceRef on indexed documents.
diff --git a/plugins/techdocs-backend/api-report.md b/plugins/techdocs-backend/api-report.md
index 76183d4c6c..cefb7d937b 100644
--- a/plugins/techdocs-backend/api-report.md
+++ b/plugins/techdocs-backend/api-report.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import express from 'express';
 import { GeneratorBuilder } from '@backstage/techdocs-common';
 import { Knex } from 'knex';
 import { Logger as Logger_2 } from 'winston';
+import { Permission } from '@backstage/plugin-permission-common';
 import { PluginCacheManager } from '@backstage/backend-common';
 import { PluginEndpointDiscovery } from '@backstage/backend-common';
 import { PreparerBuilder } from '@backstage/techdocs-common';
@@ -46,6 +47,8 @@ export class DefaultTechDocsCollator implements DocumentCollator {
   protected locationTemplate: string;
   // (undocumented)
   readonly type: string;
+  // (undocumented)
+  readonly visibilityPermission: Permission;
 }
 
 // Warning: (ae-missing-release-tag) "OutOfTheBoxDeploymentOptions" is exported by the package, but it is missing a release tag (@alpha, @beta, @public, or @internal)
diff --git a/plugins/techdocs-backend/package.json b/plugins/techdocs-backend/package.json
index 882c8092de..7692eb6825 100644
--- a/plugins/techdocs-backend/package.json
+++ b/plugins/techdocs-backend/package.json
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
     "@backstage/config": "^0.1.13",
     "@backstage/errors": "^0.2.0",
     "@backstage/integration": "^0.7.2",
+    "@backstage/plugin-catalog-common": "^0.1.1-next.0",
     "@backstage/search-common": "^0.2.1",
     "@backstage/techdocs-common": "^0.11.4",
     "@types/express": "^4.17.6",
diff --git a/plugins/techdocs-backend/src/search/DefaultTechDocsCollator.test.ts b/plugins/techdocs-backend/src/search/DefaultTechDocsCollator.test.ts
index 5f0bed55dd..7e7545ea1f 100644
--- a/plugins/techdocs-backend/src/search/DefaultTechDocsCollator.test.ts
+++ b/plugins/techdocs-backend/src/search/DefaultTechDocsCollator.test.ts
@@ -200,6 +200,9 @@ describe('DefaultTechDocsCollator', () => {
         owner: '',
         kind: entity.kind,
         name: entity.metadata.name,
+        authorization: {
+          resourceRef: `component:default/${entity.metadata.name}`,
+        },
       });
     });
   });
diff --git a/plugins/techdocs-backend/src/search/DefaultTechDocsCollator.ts b/plugins/techdocs-backend/src/search/DefaultTechDocsCollator.ts
index 1d3a3dbc3a..5149fe6c09 100644
--- a/plugins/techdocs-backend/src/search/DefaultTechDocsCollator.ts
+++ b/plugins/techdocs-backend/src/search/DefaultTechDocsCollator.ts
@@ -18,13 +18,18 @@ import {
   PluginEndpointDiscovery,
   TokenManager,
 } from '@backstage/backend-common';
-import { Entity, RELATION_OWNED_BY } from '@backstage/catalog-model';
+import {
+  Entity,
+  RELATION_OWNED_BY,
+  stringifyEntityRef,
+} from '@backstage/catalog-model';
 import { DocumentCollator } from '@backstage/search-common';
 import fetch from 'node-fetch';
 import unescape from 'lodash/unescape';
 import { Logger } from 'winston';
 import pLimit from 'p-limit';
 import { Config } from '@backstage/config';
+import { catalogEntityReadPermission } from '@backstage/plugin-catalog-common';
 import { CatalogApi, CatalogClient } from '@backstage/catalog-client';
 import { TechDocsDocument } from '@backstage/techdocs-common';
 
@@ -59,6 +64,7 @@ export class DefaultTechDocsCollator implements DocumentCollator {
   private readonly parallelismLimit: number;
   private readonly legacyPathCasing: boolean;
   public readonly type: string = 'techdocs';
+  public readonly visibilityPermission = catalogEntityReadPermission;
 
   /**
    * @deprecated use static fromConfig method instead.
@@ -148,6 +154,9 @@ export class DefaultTechDocsCollator implements DocumentCollator {
               owner:
                 entity.relations?.find(r => r.type === RELATION_OWNED_BY)
                   ?.target?.name || '',
+              authorization: {
+                resourceRef: stringifyEntityRef(entity),
+              },
             }));
           } catch (e) {
             this.logger.debug(