Asset Roles configuration permissions

Asset Roles Configuration allows organizations to define and manage specific functional roles for assets across their environment (such as Admin, User, or Server). By associating specific users and endpoints with these roles, security teams can enrich security events with role context and support role-based analytics and alerting. Users access these features by going to InventoryAssetsAsset Roles Configuration.

Notice

Requires the Identity Threat Detection and Response add-on.

For more information, see Asset Roles.

The Asset Roles configuration permissions control the ability to view, create, edit, and assign endpoints to functional asset roles.

Permissions Description Roles Example
None No access to the Assets Roles Configuration page. SOC Tier-1 Analyst: The role configuration is not part of daily operations
View Read-only access to the Assets Role Configuration page, including viewing the roles list, details, members, and searching/filtering roles. <ul><li>SOC Tier-2 Analyst: Reference role context during investigations.</li><li>SOC Tier-3 Analyst: Understand role assignments for analysis,</li><li>Threat Hunter: Reference role context for hunting.</li></ul>
View/Edit All view capabilities, plus all view/edit actions, such as add, edit, delete, and add endpoints to a role, as well as manually assign endpoints to specific roles. Security Engineer: Configure and maintain asset roles.

Required and recommended permissions

To effectively assign roles and investigate threats targeting specific functional users or servers, administrators and analysts require visibility into the underlying identity analytics and the overarching asset inventory. Consider adding the following permissions:

Permission Permission Level Reason
Asset Inventory View Required to view assets associated with roles.
Identity Security View Strongly recommended to view identity analytics data.
Host Insights View Recommended to view endpoint details for the role context.
Query Center View Recommended to run XQL queries on role data.