RoleManager Edition for Micro Focus – Role Modeling and Maintenance of Roles and Permissions for the Micro Focus NetIQ Identity Manager
Are you using the Micro Focus NetIQ Identity Manager, aiming to reduce the number of individual permissions granted and switch to role-based access control?
Have you encountered the following challenges when modeling your roles?
- No role-mining tools are available in the Micro Focus NetIQ Identity Manager for analyzing permissions from your target systems and modeling roles. You have to prepare the data laboriously and time-consumingly using tools like Excel.
- Entering modeled roles through the User Application's role catalog is cumbersome and not very intuitive.
- The ongoing maintenance of roles and permissions throughout their life cycle is also difficult to manage using the role catalog.
If this sounds familiar, you're not alone—many of our customers have faced the same issues! Now imagine having a solution that enables you to efficiently manage your roles and permissions in the Micro Focus NetIQ Identity Manager.
That’s exactly what the RoleManager Edition for Micro Focus empowers you to do.
What Does the RoleManager Edition for Micro Focus Offer?
The RoleManager Edition for Micro Focus is specifically tailored to the Micro Focus NetIQ Identity Manager. It enables all Micro Focus NetIQ IDM customers to quickly and easily model roles and securely and sustainably manage roles and permissions, while also meeting all applicable compliance requirements.
The functional scope of the four application areas at a glance:
Analyze: Collection of data for organizational structure, identities, accounts, permissions, and permission structures from source and target systems; import of existing roles from the Micro Focus NetIQ Identity Manager and comprehensive analysis of the data with clear visualizations
Design: Creation of the role model and modeling of roles using intelligent role mining methods; bidirectional exchange of role and permission data with the Micro Focus NetIQ Identity Manager, including approval workflows
Control: Continuous review of roles and permission assignments for SoD conflicts and compliance with regulatory requirements
Maintain: Ongoing maintenance and adaptation of the role model and roles within the Micro Focus NetIQ Identity Manager in response to changes in business and technical requirements or restructuring
A detailed overview of the core functions in each application area can be found on the RoleManager product page.
What Are the Benefits of the RoleManager Edition for Micro Focus?
- The comprehensive analysis of all relevant organizational, identity, and permission data provides a solid foundation for role modeling while saving time and resources
- The fast and easy role modeling, supported by intelligent role mining methods, delivers reliable results quickly
- Regular checks for SoD conflicts and compliance with regulatory requirements provide security and enable you to respond confidently to audits at any time
- With robust maintenance and adjustment features, you keep your role model and roles up to date, ensuring the long-term value of your work
- Seamless integration with the Micro Focus NetIQ Identity Manager enables reliable bidirectional exchange of roles and permission data using Micro Focus-compliant and supported methods
How Do We Ensure Your Success in Role Modeling?
To ensure maximum success in modeling your roles, our consulting team also offers the following optional support services:
- Consulting for developing the role concept and defining the role model
- Support with adapting an existing role model
- Methodological guidance for a structured approach to role modeling
- Role modeling workshops for business and IT users
Schedule your free and non-binding initial consultation now!
Work with one of our specialists to find out how you too can benefit from using the RoleManager in your project.
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Interested in More Details About Features and Technical Integration?
Micro Focus NetIQ Identity Manager Integration
- Communication takes place via the Micro Focus ReST API and LDAP for eDirectory.
- Object types that can be read from the Micro Focus NetIQ IDM include identities, systems, permissions, roles (Level 10, 20, 30), roles within roles, and role assignments.
- The RoleManager Edition for Micro Focus can transfer roles, role assignment rules (dynamic groups), and SoD rules to the Micro Focus NetIQ IDM.
Approval and Release Workflows
For compliance reasons, most of our customers require that newly modeled or modified roles only be applied in the productive Micro Focus NetIQ IDM after passing through defined approval and release processes.
The RoleManager Edition for Micro Focus offers the following options to implement your approval and release workflows:
Within the Micro Focus NetIQ IDM
Modeled or modified roles are transferred to the Micro Focus NetIQ IDM. The approval and release workflow within the User Application is triggered for roles requiring approval. A comparison between the contents of the old and the new role is possible as part of this process.
Outside the Micro Focus NetIQ IDM
Customers using an external workflow engine can also utilize it to manage the approval and release of roles. All relevant role information can be passed to the external workflow engine and the process initiated there.
Custom Approval and Release Workflows
Approval and release workflows for roles can also be individually implemented according to customer requirements. The diagram above shows an example of such a setup.
Technical Information
The RoleManager Edition for Micro Focus is based on a client-server architecture and is:
- fully integrated with the Micro Focus NetIQ Identity Manager
- compatible with any source and target systems
- Windows- and database-based
- multilingual (German and English; extendable)
- multi-user capable
- operable via predefined user profiles
- auto-update capable
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