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Managing Resource Security Overview

You can configure specific permissions on resources for users and user groups configured in Informatica domain.
As a Live Data Map administrator, you can specify access permissions on resources for specific users and user groups. The type of access permissions depends on the specific security and privilege requirements in your enterprise. For example, in a financial institution, apart from the data steward who validates the integrity, consistency, and quality of the data, no one in the institution must be able to view the details of the data sources that store confidential customer details. Identification of data sources that store customer details by unauthorized personnel might lead to hacking of the data sources and leaking of confidential information.
You can specify permissions using the Live Data Map Administrator in the following ways:
As a Live Data Map administrator, you can assign users and user groups the following permissions on resources:
Read
View the details of the resource and assets in Enterprise Information Catalog.
Read and Write
Allows the user or users included in the user group to enrich the assets in the Enterprise Information Catalog in addition to the read permission. You can enrich assets by assigning custom attributes, business terms, or data domains to the asset. Enriching assets helps you search for the asset using the assigned custom attribute, business term, or data domain.
Note: If you configure read or read and write permission for relational sources such as Oracle, you cannot see the following assets for the source till you configure permissions for the assets:
Not Assigned
Implies that permissions are not assigned on the resource for the user or user group.