Role (Dictionary Entry)

Contexts

IAM

Term

Role

Definitions

Should have a unique name. Often correspond to a job or business function. Often organized in a hierarchy.

See Also

  • Business Role

  • Functional Role

  • IT Role

  • RBAC

Related Terms

Quotes

Roles are, of course, the main focus of RBAC models. A role should have a unique name. Usually, a role is designed to correspond to a job function in a company, e.g. clerk, manager, programmer, etc. It is also customary for roles to be arranged in a role hierarchy [4] or role graph [7]. In the ANSI standard, the model called Core RBAC does not include role hierarchies.

(Osborn, 2007, p. 56)

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