Understanding Bridge Access Management

the main benefit of kyndryl authorization model is to improve the user experience and add value by converging all authorization and access management in one single place to better govern the capabilities of all services, and to make it available to be consumed by other digital solutions other benefits include manage authorization for services consistently and securely in one single place manage authorization for all digital solutions using the authorization model consistently and securely simplify the management of permission scopes for the right resources assign permissions intuitively to the correct user groups and assign users to groups effectively with access groups implement a consistent and effective attribute based access control (abac) strategy across services and your organization’s access needs enable the grouping of permissions according to organizational needs by creating custom roles docid 3zna7gptiwbpl13qxe27c find familiarity with industry standard terminology and authorization models to easily comprehend and work with services create consistent abac and role based access control (rbac) configurations across the board that is intuitive and simple to adopt support the capability to manage abac for resources in the different cloud providers or any other technologies connected to the platform, making it easy to group resources securely understanding concepts manages out of the box role based access controls, custom roles, access groups, access policies, and attribute based access controls this authorization model improves the user experience by increasingly converging all authorization and access management in one single place to better govern the capabilities of all services users docid 7caos2ibikfbh9x bz51x the page allows you to manage and regulate user access, so you can control the type of roles and permissions that your collaborators have in your applications the benefit of the users page is that you can quickly see the details of the users added to make sure your users are onboarded into your services and applications access groups docid\ hzc4qy5gh7gwklhfysayc to simplify the permission administration for a many users, the administrator organizes the access and create a collection of different access groups an access group is a group for organizing users, service ids, or a combination of both into a single entity that facilitates assigning access policies to multiple subjects at a time an access policy grants one or multiple roles to all or a set of resources so that specific actions and permissions can be taken within the scope of the specified target resources basically, an access policy is the way in which an access group gets permission to perform actions within the platform api keys docid\ xftw8finm1eyufkpg7fly api keys are normally used to track and control connections and performance of how the system interface is being used; thus, it provides authentication in the calling of a program to another api to confirm a project is authorized for connection api keys are an initial step in cloud api security by providing the connecting api with a password like code with a defined set of access rights service ids docid\ i2wxfqp2tstqi7gfvof18 a service id identifies a non human user such as a system service or subscription since the service id is not tied to a specific user, if a user is removed from the system, the rest of the team can continue using the subscription or service roles docid 3zna7gptiwbpl13qxe27c adding roles can help you define a set of actions and permission that a user can perform in the applications alternatively, these actions may often vary from your own permission needs; allows you to create custom roles combining different actions access tags docid 4ungb4hdemnoiltqg1oli the tag schema is a service that allows you to set policies governing the use of tags access tags allow you to set policies governing the use of tags in the services to help you organize your reports, and monitor and enforce compliance you can also use your own tools/other services or the provider’s native portal for tag management while still being able to track against a central tag schema to ensure compliance