What is role-based access control software?

Role-based access control software helps admins implement an RBAC system by automating onboarding, management, and credential deletion, typically integrating with systems like Active Directory.

What is role-based access control in Active Directory?

RBAC is an efficient way to control user access for many organizations. Admins can implement this strategy within Active Directory, enabling admins to restrict user access based on roles.

How can RBAC improve cybersecurity?

As a system that restricts and continuously updates user access, RBAC can simplify and improve cybersecurity for your organization while also demonstrating compliance with regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.

How does the RBAC security software work in SolarWinds Access Rights Manager?

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager helps companies improve security by automating key RBAC practices for Active Directory, including creation, modification, and deletion of user accounts.

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Software

Q: What is RBAC?

RBAC stands for Role-Based Access Control and refers to a method for restricting data access based on a user's role in the company. With RBAC, employees can access only the resources and files they need to fulfill their responsibilities.

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Secure Data

Automate User Access

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Secure data with better visibility and monitoring

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Continuous monitoring and deeper visibility across the network are essential to secure sensitive data from unauthorized access. SolarWinds^® Access Rights Manager (ARM) includes an RBAC security solution built to visually represent user permissions across your networks and provide details on user access and activity. ARM can also help expedite the incident response process by automating user deprovisioning to avoid misuse of authorization and access. With detailed reports and a complete audit trail of user permissions and access level changes, ARM can accelerate cybersecurity risk investigations.

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Automate user access rights management

Analyze accesses in your company with a user account management system

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager is a lightweight role-based access control software that can help you automate the user account provisioning and deprovisioning process. Role-specific templates are designed to help continuously enforce RBAC security without adding administrative overhead. Smoothly delegate user access rights to files, drives, and folders while conforming to security policies and guidelines. Access Rights Manager is designed to simplify role-based access control for Active Directory (AD) management by securely authorizing permissions to users.

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Demonstrate compliance and expedite audits

Streamline and Optimize Management Tasks by Automating Regulatory AD Compliance Reports

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager comes with an integrated compliance reporting tool that provides standardized, audit-ready reports. ARM is designed to help you conduct faster compliance audits with comprehensive reports that demonstrate and validate compliance for various regulations, such as GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and more. Detailed AD reports and simplified change tracking helps to determine who has made changes to Active Directory and file servers, as well as when those changes were made.

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To protect sensitive data from improper use, alteration, or deletion, companies need a system to restrict employee access. RBAC stands for Role-Based Access Control and it refers to a method for restricting data access based on a user’s role in the company.

With RBAC, employees can access only the resources and files they need to fulfill their responsibilities. Their credentials allow or restrict access based on the tasks they are assigned, which means they can access only the resources they need for their role, helping protect other data against misuse.

RBAC systems can be especially useful in larger enterprises and in companies that use third-party contractors. As the number of employees increases and the authorized contractors change, it can be difficult to provide unique credential settings for each employee. Using a role-based access control system means that admins can sort employees or contractors into preexisting groups, or roles, which grant access to a defined set of resources. This access is temporary, as the employees can also be removed from the group when the task is complete. Admins can also reset the permission levels for the groups, which means they can better manage employees at scale, increase efficiency, and even improve compliance.

RBAC enables administrators to divide users into groups based on the different roles they take on, and a single user can belong to multiple groups. Typically, employee access takes into consideration the person’s active status and roles, any security requirements, and existing policies.

It is best practice to provide minimal authorization for any given user—only enough so that they can do their job. This is known as the principle of least privilege, and it helps ensure data security. At the same time, permissions can be too restrictive for certain roles—you may need to change loosen access restrictions to facilitate greater collaboration and increase team productivity.

To protect sensitive data from improper use, alteration, or deletion, companies need a system to restrict employee access. RBAC stands for Role-Based Access Control and it refers to a method for restricting data access based on a user’s role in the company.
With RBAC, employees can access only the resources and files they need to fulfill their responsibilities. Their credentials allow or restrict access based on the tasks they are assigned, which means they can access only the resources they need for their role, helping protect other data against misuse.
RBAC systems can be especially useful in larger enterprises and in companies that use third-party contractors. As the number of employees increases and the authorized contractors change, it can be difficult to provide unique credential settings for each employee. Using a role-based access control system means that admins can sort employees or contractors into preexisting groups, or roles, which grant access to a defined set of resources. This access is temporary, as the employees can also be removed from the group when the task is complete. Admins can also reset the permission levels for the groups, which means they can better manage employees at scale, increase efficiency, and even improve compliance.
RBAC enables administrators to divide users into groups based on the different roles they take on, and a single user can belong to multiple groups. Typically, employee access takes into consideration the person’s active status and roles, any security requirements, and existing policies.
It is best practice to provide minimal authorization for any given user—only enough so that they can do their job. This is known as the principle of least privilege, and it helps ensure data security. At the same time, permissions can be too restrictive for certain roles—you may need to change loosen access restrictions to facilitate greater collaboration and increase team productivity.
Other SolarWinds Tools to Help Minimize Security Risk:
Security Event Manager
SolarWinds Patch Manager
SolarWinds Identity Monitor
Related Resources:
Active Directory Auditing
Active Directory Shared Folder Permissions
Active Directory Reporting
NTFS Permissions Report
Azure User Provisioning