User Groups and Rules
The following sections define the types of Bravura Security Fabric users, show you how to control users’ permissions and capabilities, and the role of user classes in defining segments and the relationships between users.
In Bravura Security Fabric:
User is a person who may have one or more profiles in the application.
Profile is an object in Bravura Security Fabric that may have accounts associated with it from target systems.
Administrator profiles on target systems are listed as accounts.
User group is a defined segment of Bravura Security Fabric users whose permissions are determined by an access control list. They do not necessarily refer to target system account groups, although they can be mapped to them via user classes.
User class is configured criteria for segmenting users. They can be expressed in terms of profile attributes and group memberships on target systems.
Access rule, also known as access control list (ACL), is configured to allow or deny access of a user group to view or change objects, or request access changes.