Administrator Guide Overview

Use the Administrator guide to understand how to use File Access Manager.

Terms Used in File Access Manager

The terms used in the File Access Manager website and File Access Manager Administrative Client refer to users and user permissions in two different contexts:

• Business Resource Users
  Entities within the organization, their access permissions to various company resources, and the activities they perform on these resources.

  • Users
    Entities such as company employees and bots with access to company resources.

  • User Permissions
    Permissions or capabilities granted to a user to perform tasks such as reading and writing to a Windows file server, sending emails, writing to Google Drive, deleting files, etc.

• File Access Manager Website Users

  Administrators and users of File Access Manager and their access permissions to various parts of the application. What reports they can run, what resources they are allowed to view, etc.

The following terms are used to define the users and access permissions in these contexts:

Context Term	Business Resource Users (#1 above)	File Access Manager Website Users (#2 above)	File Access Manager Administrative Client users
User	“User”	“User”	“User”
Groups of users	“Group” Such as: Active Directory group	“Group Account”
Permission	“Permission” Such as: Read Full Access Delete	“Right” Such as: Run report Access Dashboard	“Permission” Such as: Add Application Load New Package New Scheduled Task
Group of permissions		“Capability” Such as: Administrator Data Owner	“Role” Such as: API User Read Only
Resources user is allowed to access	Part of “Permissions”	“User Scope” (* The user can access these resources in the context of File Access Manager, and not the resources themselves)	“User Data Role”

Permissions define which users can access which files on a given application resource, such as permission to a given directory or message group.

Rights define what which sections, screens, etc. users can access and what actions they can do there.

Scope may refine rights further based on an entity's role within the organization or tasks they need to complete.

Rebranding Note

This section is relevant for upgrades from versions earlier than File Access Manager 8.0.

With the rebranding of SecurityIQ to File Access Manager in release 8.0, the terms below have been converted. Some of the legacy terms might still appear in some of the application screens and the accompanying documentation.

File Access Manager release 8.0 is the next release following SecurityIQ release 6.1.

File Access Manager term	Legacy SecurityIQ term
File Access Manager	SecurityIQ
Capability	Role
Right	Permission