Glossary

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Access Intelligence Center (n): A set of dashboards within Identity Security Cloud that allow you to gain insight into your identity administration program, including insights from Non-Employee Risk Management. Refer to Synchronizing Data to the Access Intelligence Center for details.

Administrator (n): A lifecycle user with access to the admin console based on their role.

Assignment (n): A category of profile type representing a non-employee's time-bound association with a job or project.

Attribute (n): A single item of data related to a particular profile and the value contained in it. For example, a user's first name is an attribute.

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Collaboration (n): A feature within Non-Employee Risk Management that allows non-employees to participate in managing other non-employees within your tenant with user accounts that are linked to profiles. These users are referred to as portal users.

Contributor: The title for the default system roles that can be assigned to end users so they can manage profiles. Users can be granted the basic contributor role, or be granted the owner or sponsor contributor role.

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Delegate (n): A user that has been granted temporary access to the profiles managed by another user, so they can manage those profiles for a specified time period.

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Form (n): A set of fields representing attributes on a profile. Forms can be combined into pages and displayed on profiles or used in workflows to set the attributes on a profile.

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Group (n): An entitlement or access item on an enterprise application. These can be used to grant roles to users.

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Lifecycle (n): The base functionality of Non-Employee Risk Management, including managing the relationships between third-party entities and with your organization.

Lifecycle User (n): Users employed by your organization with accounts in Non-Employee Risk Management. Lifecycle users can create or update profiles depending on their permissions.

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NEAccess (n): A legacy term for the Collaboration features.

NEProfile (n): A legacy term for the Lifecycle features.

Non-Employee (n): An individual contracted to perform work for an organization on a job for a specific period of time.

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Organization (n): A category of profile type used to manage the jobs and permissions that non-employees have within your company. Organizations can be internal, such as a team or department, or external, such as a vendor or staffing agency.

Owner (n): A type of contributor to a profile. The primary user responsible for managing a profile and its associated relationships in profile types with the categories organization and job.

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Page (n): A collection of forms, text, and other elements used to display profile data and gather information about profiles.

Portal (n): The login page for portal users using the collaboration feature.

Portal User (n): Non-employees that have been invited to Non-Employee Risk Management to participate in managing profiles and other non-employees. These users authenticate into Non-Employee Risk Management using a portal.

Profile (n): Any individual, organization, or other object managed within Non-Employee Risk Management, as well as the data about that object. This includes non-employees, the organizations they come from, or the assignments they work on, and additional data related to non-employees in your organization.

Profile Type (n): A group of similar profiles you want to manage, using the same attributes and workflows.

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Sponsor (n): An attribute on assignment profiles representing a contributor who is the primary point of contact for that assignment.

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User (n): Any individual with an account in Non-Employee Risk Management. Most often, this refers to end users who do not have administrator permissions.

User Role (n): The level of access granted to a user within Non-Employee Risk Management. This refers to the default roles, as well as custom roles configured for lifecycle users and collaboration users. Administrator permissions are also granted based on a user's role.

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Value builder (n): A customizable set of instructions used to generate profile attributes using either random or programmatic values.

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Workflow (n): A customizable series of sequential actions that are executed to perform specific tasks within Non-Employee Risk Management.