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Roles Hosted customers only

Roles let you define the applications, projects, and organization settings that users with a specific role can access.

Note

This feature is supported for hosted customers only and is in preview mode. For access to this feature, contact Contrast support.

On-premises customers manage access to Contrast by setting up organization users and groups.

Contrast provides a set of built-in roles or you can add custom roles.

Roles tab

The Roles tab displays the list of existing roles. From this tab, you can:

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Built-in roles and actions

Each action associated with a role provides permissions for a specific set of tasks and data.

Note

You cannot change the settings for the built-in roles. To view the settings for roles, select the View icon (icon-view.svg).

Organization roles

This role:

Includes these built-in resource groups:

And these actions:

Organization viewer

All organization settings

View organization

Organization editor

All organization settings

Edit organization settings

Organization administrator

All access control settings

All organization settings

Manage organization

Manage platform organization

Organization rules administrator

All organization settings

Manage organization rules

App Security roles

This role:

Includes these built-in resource groups:

And these actions:

App Security administrator

All applications

All organization settings

All projects

Manage application rule

View, edit, delete projects

View organization

DevOps roles

This role:

Includes the built-in resource groups:

And these actions:

DevOps administrator

All applications

All organization settings

All projects

All resource groups

All roles

All user access groups

Manage organization

View application

View project

View organization

Application roles

This role

Includes these built-in resource groups:

And these actions:

Application viewer

All applications

View application

Application editor

All applications

Edit application

Application administrator

All applications

Manage application

Application rules administrator

All applications

Manage application rule

Scan project roles

This role:

Includes these built-in resource groups:

And these actions:

Project viewer

All projects

View project

Scan uploader

All projects

Upload scans

Project administrator

All projects

View, edit, delete projects

Create project

Protect roles

This role:

Includes these built-in resource groups:

And these actions:

Protect viewer

All applications

Access Protect

Protect policies administrator

All applications

Manage Protect policies

Protect exclusions administrator

All Protect exclusions

Manage Protect exclusions

Protect sensitive data administrator

All Protect sensitive data policies

Manage protect sensitive data policies

Serverless roles

This role:

Includes these built-in resource groups:

And these actions:

Serverless user

All functions

View Serverless