User roles

A role defines a group of Guardium users who share the same access privileges.

When a role is assigned to an application or the definition of an item (a specific query, for example), only those Guardium users who are also assigned that role can access that component. If no security roles are assigned to a component (a report, for example), only the user who defined that component and the admin user can access it.

At installation time, Guardium is configured with a default set of roles and a default set of user accounts. The Guardium access manager can create new roles and modifies existing roles as needed.