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University of Florida

Glossary

This is not an all-inclusive glossary and additional terms will be added / clarity provided as the need arise.

  • Department Security Administrator (DSA):  Designated College and / or Department staff members who will use Sailpoint initiate requests to grant access to administrative computer applications for people in the UF registry.
  • Primary Department Security Administrator (Primary DSA):  Designated College and Department staff members will use Sailpoint to initiate requests to grant or remove access to administrative computer applications for people in the UF registry. Primary DSAs will also be responsible for recertification of “movers”.
  • Role Approver:   Designated members of the UF Core offices who approve or deny access to specific roles related to their functional area. Role approvers are grouped together into Governance groups.
  • Mover: UF staff, faculty, or employee who has moved to a new department or taken / left an additional position. When an individual is identified as a mover, the Primary DSA will be required to perform a recertification. Learn more about the logic that will trigger the removal and recertification of security roles in SailPoint in at a glance guide.
  • Leaver: UF staff, faculty or employee who has ended their working relationship with the University of Florida. Most access will be removed by Sailpoint at time of termination.
  • Role: Representation of the access that is granted to an individual in the Sailpoint system. Roles are requested by a DSA (unless birthright role rule applies), approved by a role approver (if needed) and then assigned to the end-user.
  • Birthright Role: Representation of the access that is granted to an individual in the Sailpoint System based on identity attributes (Affiliation, job code, department id, eg).