Roles

Techniques for identifying the set of roles a business must support in order to characterize its relationships with employees, partners, and customers. Tools for creating roles and managing their lifecycles. Tools for managing the assignment of entitlements to roles. Methods for measuring the effectiveness of role-based systems. Tools for discovering roles based on patterns of activity of existing personnel. Architecture of role hierarchies; influence of organizational change on role hierarchy and on assignment of individuals to roles. Separation of duties. Four-hands and Chinese Wall policies. Mapping of roles between organizations in federated environment.

  • Role discovery
  • Role mining
  • Role mapping
  • Role management
  • Return on organization
  • Organizational dynamics
  • Business process
  • IT roles
  • Business roles
  • Separation of Duties
  • Four-Hands policy
  • Chinese Wall policy

This topic relates to the Identity and Privacy coverage area - Identity Infrastructure Planning and building general-purpose infrastructure for managing and applying identity information, and supporting the digital identity lifecycle.

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