Policy Compliance/Policy Audit User Roles and Permissions

Policy Compliance / Policy Audit has 5 OOTB (Out-of-the-box) roles for users:

  • Manager: The manager role has all the default permissions of Policy Compliance, and can create and grant permissions to other users. They have all the privileges and access to all modules.
  • Unit Manager: The unit manager has the ability to manage assets and users and has management authority only on an assigned business unit.
  • Scanner: The scanner role has limited rights to its assigned assets. 
  • Auditor: The auditor has the view-only permission.
  • Reader: The reader role has view permissions.
  • Audit Fix Manager: This role has full job and script control, including delete. 
  • Audit Fix Viewer: This role observes, validates and reports. 
  • Audit Fix Manager: This role can create and edit jobs and scripts but cannot delete. 

The Policy Compliance / Policy Audit module has several permissions related to specific permission categories. The following are the categories of permissions with each of the related permissions groups for this module: 

Permission Categories Description Default Roles      
Manager Unit Manager Scanner Auditor Reader Audit Fix Manager Audit Fix Viewer Audit Fix Manager
PC Permissions PC/SCA UI access N N N
PC Access N N N
PC/SCA API Permissions PC/SCA API Access N N N
Alerting Permissions Alerting Access N N N N N N N
Create, edit, and delete your own action N N N N N N N
Edit any action N N N N N N N
Delete any action N N N N N N N
Create, edit, and delete your own rule N N N N N N N
Edit any rule N N N N N N N
Delete any rule N N N N N N N
Remediation Permissions View Remediation N N N N N N N
Policy Audit Fix   N N N N N N N N
PAF Permissions PAF API Access N N N
PAF UI Access N N N
PAF Job Delete Job N N N N N N
Edit Job N N N N N
Create Job N N N N N
PAF Script Create Custom CAR Scripts N N N N N
Edit Custom CAR Scripts N N N N N
Import Custom CAR Scripts N N N N N
Delete Custom CAR Scripts N N N N N N