Five reasons to use Role Based Access Control (RBAC)

• Improve Security of Systems and Applications
Do you know exactly who has access to what at your company? Often when new employees need accounts a copy of another account is made, which is called a ‘template user’.  This creates a security risk since access to applications and systems are also copied and are often forgotten to be revoked. RBAC allows you to easily see the resources that employees have available to them based upon their role in the organization. This will allow you to ensure that nobody has access to secure systems and applications that are not supposed to, and make changes as necessary.

• Easily Make Security Changes
Employees frequently change roles and jobs within an organization and subsequently need different access privileges. With RBAC in place, it can handle changes that occur no matter how difficult. Complex changes such as a part time employee working to two different departments can also be handled without significant effort.

•  Easily Meet Audit Requirements
Using RBAC makes meeting strict audit requirement easy. Industries such as healthcare and financial, need to be able to show that their information is secure and have had more strict requirements put on them in recent years. With RBAC companies can easily ensure that secure information remains that way, and can easily access this information for audits.

• Increase Productivity of Employees
Assigning new employees their correct access rights can be time consuming and for both the IT employee and the end user. With RBAC, new employees do not have to wait for their privileges to be assigned and are able to begin working with the  necessary applications such as word processing, email and departmental shares, and then receive more specific privileges later on.

• Reduce costs
Since the IT staff can see which applications are being used and how often they can determine which are necessary for their business needs. Those that are not being accessed can be eliminated, or have licensing counts reduced, thus saving the organization money.

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