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<\/span>How to Leverage Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in eG Enterprise to Improve Security and IT Ops Efficiency<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"\"eG Enterprise is a single pane of glass that provides monitoring and oversight of every layer and tier of your IT infrastructure. However, this does not mean every user in the organization has the same view of the IT infrastructure or needs to use the tool in the same way.<\/p>\n

In fact, controlling a user\u2019s view of the monitored applications and infrastructure, as well as their privileges to perform tasks and access data via Role-Based Access Control, is a critical feature for our customers. This is important not only to ensure the product satisfies the needs of each user’s role (job) and responsibilities, but also to ensure security and data protection across the organization.<\/p>\n

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in eG Enterprise not only allows you to give your employees the exact permissions they need to do their jobs, but it also enables administrators to limit those permissions to only those they need. Additionally, RBAC can be used to ensure their access to data and views of the infrastructure are restricted where appropriate.<\/p>\n

This not only reduces the risks of rogue and ex-employees or contractors using insider knowledge to malicious ends but also enables clear delimitations and responsibilities to be divided between individuals and teams. eG Enterprise\u2019s rich RBAC helps our customers satisfy many compliance and regulatory standards, such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, GLBA, FISMA, SOX, and more.<\/p>\n

Our platform fully supports a rich suite of \u201cLimited Component Access\u201d controls associated with RBAC that allow customers to define zones, services, and segments based on factors, such as geographical location, functionality, or end-to-end service. RBAC alone allows permissions to be restricted but \u201cLimited Component Access\u201d allows granularity in what infrastructure those permissions are applied to.<\/p>\n

<\/span>What is RBAC?<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"\" Within an organization, roles are created for various job functions. Permissions to perform certain operations are assigned to specific roles. Members of staff (or other system users) are assigned specific roles, and through those role assignments, acquire the permissions needed to perform particular system functions. Since the users are not assigned permissions directly, instead of acquiring them through their role (or roles), the management of individual user rights is a matter of assigning appropriate roles to the user’s account; this simplifies common operations, such as adding a user or changing a user’s department.<\/p>\n

Sophisticated RBAC implementations may include functionality to define hierarchies of business units and\/or user groups within organizations to securely segregate access and permissions further. The ability to define groups of users reflects Unix- and Windows-based permission systems better than simple role definitions.<\/p>\n

<\/span>RBAC in eG Enterprise: How it Helps?<\/span><\/h2>\n

The granularity of control eG Enterprise\u2019s RBAC offers allows organizations to configure their monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities in numerous ways. Common customer choices we see include:<\/p>\n