diff --git a/catalog-rest-service/src/main/resources/json/schema/entity/policies/accessControl/rule.json b/catalog-rest-service/src/main/resources/json/schema/entity/policies/accessControl/rule.json
index 5b4a7e9b100..931ae9de64c 100644
--- a/catalog-rest-service/src/main/resources/json/schema/entity/policies/accessControl/rule.json
+++ b/catalog-rest-service/src/main/resources/json/schema/entity/policies/accessControl/rule.json
@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@
       "default": false
     },
     "priority": {
-      "description": "Priority of this rule among other rules in this policy.",
+      "description": "Priority of this rule among all rules across all policies.",
       "type": "integer",
-      "default": 0
+      "default": 250000
     },
     "enabled": {
       "description": "Is the rule enabled.",
diff --git a/ingestion-core/src/metadata/_version.py b/ingestion-core/src/metadata/_version.py
index 1d4179d00fd..b3de04d2be4 100644
--- a/ingestion-core/src/metadata/_version.py
+++ b/ingestion-core/src/metadata/_version.py
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@ Provides metadata version information.
 
 from incremental import Version
 
-__version__ = Version("metadata", 0, 8, 0, dev=8)
+__version__ = Version("metadata", 0, 8, 0, dev=9)
 __all__ = ["__version__"]