Roles installed with Risk Management
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Summary of Roles installed with Risk Management
This document outlines the roles associated with the GRC: Risk Management application, detailing the permissions and capabilities each role provides to users. Understanding these roles is essential for effective risk management within the ServiceNow platform.
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Key Features
- Risk Reader [snrisk.reader]: Grants read-only access to the Risk application, allowing users to act on assigned issues, view indicator templates, and access risk-related data and dashboards.
- Risk User [snrisk.user]: Includes permissions from the Risk Reader role, enabling users to create risks, view various risk-related entities, and work on risk acceptance and remediation tasks.
- Risk Manager [snrisk.manager]: Allows for the creation of issues, risk frameworks, and remediation tasks, along with access to risk management dashboards.
- Risk Admin [snrisk.admin]: Provides comprehensive administrative capabilities, including the ability to delete or modify risks and frameworks and configure risk assessment methodologies.
- Assessment Creator [snrisk.asmtcreator]: Specifically used for creating risk assessment metric types.
- GRC Business User [sngrc.businessuser]: Empowers users to take risk assessments, create tasks, and engage in various risk management activities, including reporting and responding to metrics data tasks.
Key Outcomes
By effectively implementing these roles, ServiceNow customers can enhance their risk management processes, ensure proper access controls, and facilitate collaboration among team members. Each role is designed to provide specific access and capabilities, which streamlines risk assessment and management tasks, ultimately leading to improved organizational risk posture.
Roles are added with activation of GRC: Risk Management.
| Role title [name] | Description | Contains roles |
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| Risk Reader [sn_risk.reader] |
In addition to the inherited permissions, the risk reader has read-only access rights to the Risk application and modules. The risk reader can do the following in the GRC scope:
The risk reader can do the following in the Risk Management application:
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| Risk User [sn_risk.user] |
Contains the reader and business user roles in sn_grc scope, and the reader role in the Risk Management application and business user role in the sn_grc scope. In addition to the inherited permissions, the risk user can view:
The risk user can also create risks. The risk user can be assigned risks and has read-only access to the Policy and Compliance Management application and modules. Risk user can do everything that the risk reader can do. The risk reader can do the following in the Risk Management application:
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| Risk Manager [sn_risk.manager] |
Contains the reader, user, and manager roles in sn_grc scope, and the reader and user roles in the Risk Management application. In addition to the inherited permissions, the risk manager can do the following in the GRC scope
In the Risk Management application, the risk manager can:
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| Risk Admin [sn_risk.admin] |
Contains the reader, user, manager, and admin roles in sn_grc scopes, and the
reader, user, and manager roles in the Risk Management application. In
addition to the inherited permissions, in the GRC scope, the risk admin can
create an entity tier. In the Risk Management application, the risk administrator
can:
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| Assessment Creator [sn_risk.asmt_creator] |
The assessment creator is used for creating GRC risk assessment metric types. | assessment_admin |
| GRC Business User [sn_grc.business_user] |
Users with this role can perform the following tasks:
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