Access management in Smart Web Security

In this section, you will learn:

• Which resources you can assign a role for.
• Which roles exist in the service.

About access managementAbout access management

In Yandex Cloud, all transactions are checked in Yandex Identity and Access Management. If a subject does not have the required permission, the service returns an error.

To grant permissions for a resource, assign roles for this resource to the subject that will perform the operations. You can assign roles to a Yandex account, service account, federated users, user group, system group, or public group. For more information, see How access management works in Yandex Cloud.

Roles for a resource can be assigned by users who have the smart-web-security.admin role or one of the following roles for that resource:

• admin
• resource-manager.admin
• organization-manager.admin
• resource-manager.clouds.owner
• organization-manager.organizations.owner

Which resources you can assign a role forWhich resources you can assign a role for

You can assign a role for an organization, cloud, or folder. Roles assigned for an organization, cloud, or folder also apply to security profiles in them.

Which roles exist in the serviceWhich roles exist in the service

The chart below shows which roles are available in the service and how they inherit each other's permissions. For example, the editor role includes all the permissions of viewer. You can find the description of each role under the chart.

Service rolesService roles

smart-web-security.auditorsmart-web-security.auditor

The smart-web-security.auditor role allows you to view information on security profiles in Smart Web Security and the metadata of the relevant cloud and folder.

Users with this role can:

• View info on security profiles in Smart Web Security.
• View info on access permissions assigned for security profiles.
• View the list of L7 load balancer virtual hosts in Yandex Application Load Balancer to which the security profile is connected.
• View information on the relevant cloud.
• View info on the relevant folder.

To assign the smart-web-security.auditor role, you need the admin role for the cloud or smart-web-security.admin role for the folder.

smart-web-security.viewersmart-web-security.viewer

The smart-web-security.viewer role allows you to view information on security profiles in Smart Web Security, as well as on the relevant cloud and folder.

Users with this role can:

• View info on security profiles in Smart Web Security.
• View info on access permissions assigned for security profiles.
• View the list of L7 load balancer virtual hosts in Yandex Application Load Balancer to which the security profile is connected.
• View information on the relevant cloud.
• View info on the relevant folder.

This role also includes the smart-web-security.auditor permissions.

To assign the smart-web-security.viewer role, you either need the admin role for the cloud or the smart-web-security.admin one for the folder.

smart-web-security.usersmart-web-security.user

The smart-web-security.user role allows you to view information on security profiles in Smart Web Security and use them.

Users with this role can:

• View info on security profiles in Smart Web Security and use them in other Yandex Cloud services.
• View info on access permissions assigned for security profiles.
• View the list of L7 load balancer virtual hosts in Yandex Application Load Balancer to which the security profile is connected.
• View information on the relevant cloud.
• View info on the relevant folder.

This role also includes the smart-web-security.viewer permissions.

To assign the smart-web-security.user role, you need either the admin role for the cloud or the smart-web-security.admin one for the folder.

smart-web-security.editorsmart-web-security.editor

The smart-web-security.editor role allows you to use security profiles in Smart Web Security and manage them.

Users with this role can:

• View info on security profiles in Smart Web Security, create, modify, and delete them, as well as use these security profiles in other Yandex Cloud services.
• View info on access permissions assigned for security profiles.
• View the list of L7 load balancer virtual hosts in Yandex Application Load Balancer to which the security profile is connected.
• View information on the relevant cloud.
• View info on the relevant folder.

This role also includes the smart-web-security.user permissions.

To assign the smart-web-security.editor role, you need the admin role for the cloud or the smart-web-security.admin one for the folder.

smart-web-security.adminsmart-web-security.admin

The smart-web-security.admin role allows you to use security profiles in Smart Web Security, manage them, and manage access to them.

Users with this role can:

• View info on access permissions assigned for security profiles and modify such permissions.
• View info on security profiles in Smart Web Security, create, modify, and delete them, as well as use these security profiles in other Yandex Cloud services.
• View the list of L7 load balancer virtual hosts in Yandex Application Load Balancer to which the security profile is connected.
• View information on the relevant cloud.
• View info on the relevant folder.

This role also includes the smart-web-security.editor permissions.

To assign the smart-web-security.admin role, you need the admin role for the cloud.

Primitive rolesPrimitive roles

Primitive roles allow users to perform actions in all Yandex Cloud services.

auditorauditor

The auditor role grants a permission to read configuration and metadata of any Yandex Cloud resources without any access to data.

For instance, users with this role can:

• View info on a resource.
• View the resource metadata.
• View the list of operations with a resource.

auditor is the most secure role that does not grant any access to the service data. This role suits the users who need minimum access to the Yandex Cloud resources.

Currently, the auditor role is available for all Yandex Cloud services, except for:

• Yandex Data Streams
• Yandex Query

viewerviewer

The viewer role grants the permissions to read the info on any Yandex Cloud resources.

This role also includes the auditor permissions.

Unlike auditor, the viewer role provides access to service data in read mode.

editoreditor

The editor role provides permissions to manage any Yandex Cloud resources, except for assigning roles to other users, transferring organization ownership, removing an organization, and deleting Key Management Service encryption keys.

For instance, users with this role can create, modify, and delete resources.

This role also includes the viewer permissions.

adminadmin

The admin role enables assigning any roles, except for resource-manager.clouds.owner and organization-manager.organizations.owner, and provides permissions to manage any Yandex Cloud resources (except for transferring organization ownership and removing an organization).

Prior to assigning the admin role for an organization, cloud, or billing account, make sure to check out the information on protecting privileged accounts.

This role also includes the editor permissions.

Instead of primitive roles, we recommend using service roles. This ensures more selective access control and implementation of the principle of least privilege.

For more information about primitive roles, see the Yandex Cloud role reference.