diff --git a/.changeset/angry-jeans-bow.md b/.changeset/angry-jeans-bow.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6f28797c42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/angry-jeans-bow.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend': patch
+---
+
+Add support for permissions to the DefaultCatalogCollator by adding the visibilityPermission prop and including authorization.resourceRef on indexed documents.
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/api-report.md b/plugins/catalog-backend/api-report.md
index 6cd386c122..deed3e2d8b 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/api-report.md
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/api-report.md
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import { Location as Location_2 } from '@backstage/catalog-model';
 import { LocationSpec } from '@backstage/catalog-model';
 import { Logger as Logger_2 } from 'winston';
 import { Organizations } from 'aws-sdk';
+import { Permission } from '@backstage/plugin-permission-common';
 import { PermissionAuthorizer } from '@backstage/plugin-permission-common';
 import { PermissionCondition } from '@backstage/plugin-permission-common';
 import { PermissionCriteria } from '@backstage/plugin-permission-common';
@@ -539,6 +540,8 @@ export class DefaultCatalogCollator implements DocumentCollator {
   protected tokenManager: TokenManager;
   // (undocumented)
   readonly type: string;
+  // (undocumented)
+  readonly visibilityPermission: Permission;
 }
 
 // Warning: (ae-missing-release-tag) "DefaultCatalogProcessingOrchestrator" is exported by the package, but it is missing a release tag (@alpha, @beta, @public, or @internal)
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/search/DefaultCatalogCollator.test.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/search/DefaultCatalogCollator.test.ts
index 1360ca2647..81abb91328 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/search/DefaultCatalogCollator.test.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/search/DefaultCatalogCollator.test.ts
@@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ describe('DefaultCatalogCollator', () => {
       componentType: expectedEntities[0]!.spec!.type,
       lifecycle: expectedEntities[0]!.spec!.lifecycle,
       owner: expectedEntities[0]!.spec!.owner,
+      authorization: {
+        resourceRef: 'component:default/test-entity',
+      },
     });
     expect(documents[1]).toMatchObject({
       title: expectedEntities[1].metadata.title,
@@ -122,6 +125,9 @@ describe('DefaultCatalogCollator', () => {
       componentType: expectedEntities[1]!.spec!.type,
       lifecycle: expectedEntities[1]!.spec!.lifecycle,
       owner: expectedEntities[1]!.spec!.owner,
+      authorization: {
+        resourceRef: 'component:default/test-entity-2',
+      },
     });
   });
 
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/search/DefaultCatalogCollator.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/search/DefaultCatalogCollator.ts
index ebad95e72f..93ef6968d1 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/search/DefaultCatalogCollator.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/search/DefaultCatalogCollator.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,11 @@ import {
   PluginEndpointDiscovery,
   TokenManager,
 } from '@backstage/backend-common';
-import { Entity, UserEntity } from '@backstage/catalog-model';
+import {
+  Entity,
+  stringifyEntityRef,
+  UserEntity,
+} from '@backstage/catalog-model';
 import { IndexableDocument, DocumentCollator } from '@backstage/search-common';
 import { Config } from '@backstage/config';
 import {
@@ -26,6 +30,7 @@ import {
   CatalogClient,
   CatalogEntitiesRequest,
 } from '@backstage/catalog-client';
+import { catalogEntityReadPermission } from '@backstage/plugin-catalog-common';
 
 export interface CatalogEntityDocument extends IndexableDocument {
   componentType: string;
@@ -41,6 +46,7 @@ export class DefaultCatalogCollator implements DocumentCollator {
   protected filter?: CatalogEntitiesRequest['filter'];
   protected readonly catalogClient: CatalogApi;
   public readonly type: string = 'software-catalog';
+  public readonly visibilityPermission = catalogEntityReadPermission;
   protected tokenManager: TokenManager;
 
   static fromConfig(
@@ -126,6 +132,9 @@ export class DefaultCatalogCollator implements DocumentCollator {
         kind: entity.kind,
         lifecycle: (entity.spec?.lifecycle as string) || '',
         owner: (entity.spec?.owner as string) || '',
+        authorization: {
+          resourceRef: stringifyEntityRef(entity),
+        },
       };
     });
   }