Role Creation

Overview

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Simplify Business Role Creation with a Powerful, Flexible Approach
IdentityIQ Role Manager drastically reduces the time it takes to define roles by automating the process of grouping fine-grained entitlements into logical roles. Taking a flexible, yet pragmatic approach to role creation, Role Manager supports both top-down and bottom-up role mining. The solution mines business/organizational roles from HR data and populates the Business Modeler with candidate roles. Once these roles are established, they serve as containers for bottom-up IT entitlement mining. Business and IT users can select the entitlements that should be assigned to a business role based on role analytics and defined thresholds.

Leveraging a variety of tools for defining or modifying business roles, IdentityIQ captures the business context required to manage identity compliance and simplify user administration. By supporting flexible role types, Role Manager allows users to create very simple or very complex role models based on their needs.

Capabilities

• Adaptive Role Model – Offers enterprises the flexibility to define a role model that matches their business, based on organizational, business process, project, or geographic factors.
• Business Role Modeling and IT Role Mining – Supports both top-down and bottom-up role mining. IdentityIQ mines business/organizational roles from HR data and populates the Business Modeler with candidate roles. Once these roles are established, they serve as containers for bottom-up IT entitlement mining. Business and IT users can select the entitlements that should be assigned to a business role based on role analytics and defined thresholds.
• Certification-Based Role Definitions – To make it as easy as possible for business and IT managers to provide guidance and input on role definition, IdentityIQ allows reviewers performing access certifications to capture and define candidate roles during the access certification process.

Features

• Adaptive Role Model – Enables implementation of a fully-customized role model tailored to the central needs of an organization
• Business Role Modeling – Supports creation of a top-down role model aligned with business structure
• IT Role Mining – Mines and graphically displays groups of users with similar entitlements and identity attributes
• Certification-Based Role Definition – Allows reviewers to define candidate roles during the access certification process

Resources

• SailPoint IdentityIQ Product Overview – A high-level introduction to SailPoint IdentityIQ, an innovative identity governance solution that delivers risk-aware compliance management, adaptive role management, access request management and identity intelligence
• IdentityIQ Role Manager Data Sheet – Offers a complete view into the benefits, key capabilities and features supported by the role management component of SailPoint IdentityIQ including role creation, role lifecycle management and role assignment.
• Viewpoints: Role Management and Risk – This educational paper reviews how effective role management can provide the business context necessary for non-technical personnel to oversee and verify user access policy. It reviews three ways that role management helps organizations to manage information security risk and ultimately corporate risk.
• Best Practices: Practical Role Management – This paper identifies common pitfalls on the road to role management and which best practices can pave the way to solving real business problems.
• Role of Roles in Compliance Podcast – Jackie Gilbert, VP of Marketing and Founder, interviews Darran Rolls, CTO for SailPoint, on the subject of role-based access control (RBAC), and its relevance to identity management and compliance projects. Darran tackles the controversial topic concerning the difference in roles for provisioning and roles for compliance and where they can, ultimately, come together.
• Why Enterprises Need More Roles – SailPoint speaks with Forrester Research Senior Analyst, Andras Cser, to discuss the growing importance of enterprise role management. Cser, a leading expert on identity management, explains why role management is becoming increasingly strategic to organizations as business users become more involved in identity governance, particularly during the recent economic turmoil. He also provides recommendations for companies considering an enterprise role management project.

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