Role Engineering

Definitions

1. The design of reusable roles and their permissions so access can be assigned consistently and according to job function rather than individually by exception. Good role engineering makes access manageable; bad role design creates either excessive privilege or endless custom overrides.

   In plain English: Designing sensible roles and permissions for role-based access control.

   Example: "The IAM team spent months on role engineering so new hires could get accurate access automatically from their business function."

Related Terms

• Authorization
• Access Control List
• Active Directory
• Authentication Bypass
• Credential Harvesting
• Credential Manager
• Role Explosion
• Role Mining