Seven Types of Users

The User domain, one of seven domains of a typical IT infrastructure, consists of a variety of users. Each user type has unique access needs. As the different types of users in the domain grow, so does the security complexity. At a minimum, each type of user has unique business needs and thus requires unique rights to access certain information. Within each of these major types of users, the rights are further refined into subtypes. Each subtype might be further broken up, and so on. For example, your organization might have many types of administrators. The number depends on the size of the organization, complexity, and team specializations. You may further separate rights between Oracle and Microsoft SQL database administrators. ...

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