Term · 9. Business Processes & Methodology
Role Management
Definition
Operational discipline of maintaining the role catalog — creating new roles, modifying existing roles, retiring obsolete roles, managing role owners. Often performed by role engineers (IGA team) with input from business stakeholders. Foundation for governance — role catalog is the «menu» of access available to users.
- Application
- MidPoint: A process of managing role definitions.
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Delegated Administration (DA)
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Role Assignment (RA)
Specific instance of assigning a role to an identity — captures who, when, why, with what expiration. Direct (manually r …
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Birthright (BR)
Baseline access granted automatically to every identity of a specific type — typically minimal access required to functi …
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Role Creation
Process of defining a new role in the role catalog — naming, description, business owner, included entitlements, approva …
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Role Lifecycle Management (RLM)
Discipline of designing, approving, deploying, certifying, modifying, and retiring roles throughout their useful life. I …
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Role Mining (RM)
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