Glossary
A | D | E | F | R | S
A
- abstract role
- A description of a person's function in the enterprise that's unrelated to the person's job (position), such as employee, contingent worker, or line manager.
- action
- The kind of access, such as view or edit, named in a security policy.
D
- data security
- The control of access and action a user can take against which data.
- duty role
- A group of function and data privileges representing one duty of a job. Duty roles are specific to applications, stored in the policy store, and shared within an application instance.
E
- enterprise
- An organization having common control over one or more legal entities.
F
- function security
- The control of access to a page or a specific use of a page. Function security controls what a user can do.
R
- resource role
- The role the user plays in the sales organization. The resource role appears as the person's title in the Resource Directory.
- role provisioning
- The automatic or manual allocation of a role to a user.
S
- security reference implementation
- Predefined function and data security that includes role based access control, and policies that protect functions, and data. The reference implementation supports identity management, access provisioning, and security enforcement across the tools, data transformations, access methods, and the information life cycle of an enterprise.