This is a web based tool that automates the creation and management of role definitions. The tool enforces best practises to ensure that role definition, development and testing is consistent across the implementation, resulting in lower on-going maintenance and easier knowledge transfer. If roles are built to agreed best practises costs are minimised.

Virsa Role Expert: centralises and standardises enterprise wide role management, eliminating manual errors, providing an audit trail for changes, and enforcing best practices. Using the application, business managers can define functional roles, and IT managers can define the associated technical permissions.

Role expert provides a means for role owners and security administrators to identify potential Segregation of Duties issues and automate many other tasks. Examples include:

• Workflow for role approval
• Providing an audit trail for role modifications.

The role expert integrates closely with Compliance Calibrator (Risk Analysis, Risk Mitigation, Transaction Usage, and Authorization Function Search) and Access Enforcer (role approval workflow).