Role Based Access Control


Role Based Access Control (RBAC) is the predominant model for managing a large-scale user base across a heterogeneous systems landscape.

Today, IT organizations have to administrate hundreds of systems, with each system having several thousands of users. This task is complex, incurs a lot of administrative costs, put constrain of the productivity of the IT organisation and makes auditing and compliance reviews a cumbersome effort.

RBAC will reduce the complexity of the company’s user administration and the associated costs, and increase the level of control and auditability of access rights.

The basic concept of the RBAC model is to consolidate user privileges across disparate systems into a set of roles, which the user then can be assigned to.

This gives a number of advantages, including easier assignment of privileges to individual users, but also the potential of designing the roles so they relate to business/functional roles.

With the Omada Identity Manager, RBAC is transformed from a theoretical and abstract concept to a pragmatic and proven model that delivers significant cost-savings, higher productivity in IT, and supports regulatory compliance.

The RBAC model in Omada Identity Manager provides full flexibility to develop a multidimensional role model in order to incorporate the most complex scenarios.

It even supports the fact that in all organizations, a certain percentage of the user population will not fit into the predefined roles.

To meet these requirements a set of self-service request processes and recurring role reviews have been put in place to accommodate the special requirements of this section of the user population. These special cases are therefore handled by the same rigidity ensuring realisation of the administrative savings and support of regulatory compliance.