Security Overview
CIM Catalog is hosted in Microsoft SharePoint Online environment in
Cloud, hence it is inherited the security framework what SharePoint
offered. SharePoint has the default security groups which are the
SharePoint objects that have “users” (Azure Active Directory Users and
Azure Active Directory Groups by default) as members and come with their
own settings.
There are 5 main layers of Security available in the CIM Catalog
environment:
Read: Can view pages and list items and download documents.
Contribute: Can view, add, update, and delete list items and
documents.
Edit: Can add, edit and delete lists; can view, add, update and
delete list items and documents.
Restricted Edit: Can add, edit and delete specific rows from
the list based on the defined role.
Design: Can view, add, update, delete, approve, and customize.
Full Control: Has full control.
There are three security groups. Members, Owners and Visitors.
Users required to be added into a security group. Each security group
has unique Permission level as described in Figure 18.