About partitions
A partition is an entity in Security Center SaaS that defines a set of entities that are only visible to a specific group of users. For example, a partition could include all areas, doors, cameras, and zones in one building.
Partitions eliminate the task of creating one-to-one relationships between users and the entities they can see in the system. If a user has no rights to a partition, that partition and everything it contains are hidden from that user.
- List of members
- Entities that belong to the partition (areas, doors, cameras, cardholders, users, and so on).
- List of authorized users
- Users and user groups that have the right to access the entities in the partition. The
type of access each user has (view, add, modify, delete) is determined by the privileges of each individual user. Exceptions to
the basic privileges of a user can be configured for each partition the user has access
to.Note: An authorized user of a partition is not necessarily a member of that partition, nor is a user who is a member of a partition necessarily an authorized user.
Benefits of partitions
- It reduces the scope of what a user can access for security reasons. For example, in a multi-site system, it might be undesirable for the security team of one site to be able to see or interfere with the activities of the security team of another site.
- It reduces the scope of a user’s work to make it more manageable. If a user is only responsible for one part of the system (one site in a multi-site system), it is better not to distract the user with the entities the user is not responsible for.
System-created partitions
Security Center SaaS provides a default partition called Genetec SC SaaS. If you would like to have more granular control over which users can access specific entities, you can create additional partitions. These partitions are nested under the Genetec SC SaaS partition.
The system also creates a ClearID partition that is nested in the Genetec SC SaaS partition. This partition contains the sites and areas that are created in ClearID.