About Environments

Within each Tenant, there can be one or more Environments. Environments can be used for a variety of reasons. For example, there might be a Planning Environment, a Development Environment, and finally a Production Environment.

Each Tenant contains Workspaces in which you can create the WHO (Identities) and the WHAT (which Assets and Rulesets) are allowed to do WHAT (Actions in Applications) as well as any environmental Conditions needed.

Using the Environment level in the Authorization Platform, you can also manage different use cases for authorization at the same time.

Within the Environment, you will find the following Workspaces:

• One or more Identity Workspaces
• One or more Authorization Workspaces
• Orchestration Workspace (must be created)

Having more than one Workspace (either Identity or Authorization) enables the Platform to offer more granular separation of duties. In this way, organizations can create:

• Multiple Authorization Workspaces within a single Environment to manage large numbers of Applications and Policies.
• Multiple Identity Workspaces within a single Environment to apply access Policies to different types of Identities (for example, internal employees, external users) that are managed in different Identity Sources.

The ability to create mulitple Workspaces provides more granular access definitions for different types of users and/or Applications managed in each Workspace.

The Workspaces are displayed in accordion tabs, with an Authorization Workspace as the default view. You can easily switch between Workspaces (see Switching Between Workspaces).

• When viewing an Identity Workspace, an Authorization tab displays the number of Authorization Workspaces, defined Applications and Policies.

• When viewing the Authorization Workspace, the Identity tab shows the total number of Identity Workspaces and defined Dynamic Groups.

Next to the name of the Environment on the Environment tab are three vertical dots that offer a drop-down to access:

• Administration Audit Report
• Authorization Audit Report
• Manage Workspace
• Settings