Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Definition
A method of restricting system access based on users' roles within an organization rather than individual permissions.
Overview
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) assigns permissions to roles, and roles to users. Instead of granting individual permissions to each user, administrators define roles with appropriate permissions and assign users to roles. RBAC simplifies access management, reduces errors, and supports the principle of least privilege. RBAC is fundamental to automated provisioning, enabling consistent access assignment based on job function.
Why It Matters
Without RBAC, access permissions become an unmanageable tangle of individual grants that no one fully understands. This leads to excessive access that violates least-privilege principles, creates audit findings, and makes it nearly impossible to answer the question: who has access to what?
How New Odyssey Helps
New Odyssey uses RBAC across its platform and helps automate role-based provisioning across connected enterprise systems, ensuring consistent access policies are enforced from a single control plane.