Access management in Smart Web Security

In this section, you will learn:

• What resources you can assign a role for.
• What roles exist in this service.

Access managementAccess management

Yandex Identity and Access Management checks all operations in Yandex Cloud. If an entity does not have required permissions, IAM returns an error.

To grant permissions for a resource, assign the relevant resource roles to an entity performing operations. You can assign roles to a Yandex account, service account, local user, federated user, user group, system group, or public group. For more information, see How access management works in Yandex Cloud.

To assign a role for a resource, a user should 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

Resources you can assign a role forResources 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.

What roles exist in this serviceWhat roles exist in this service

The chart below shows service’s roles and their permission inheritance. For example, editor inherits all viewer permissions. You can find role descriptions below the chart.

Service rolesService roles

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

The smart-web-security.auditor role enables viewing info on Smart Web Security resources, as well as on the relevant cloud and folder.

Users with this role can:

• View info on security profiles.
• View the list of resources to which a security profile is connected.
• View info on WAF profiles.
• View info on ARL profiles.
• View info on proxy servers.
• View info on lists.
• View info 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 for the folder.

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

The smart-web-security.viewer role enables viewing info on Smart Web Security resources, as well as on the relevant cloud and folder.

Users with this role can:

• View info on security profiles.
• View the list of resources to which a security profile is connected.
• View info on WAF profiles.
• View info on ARL profiles.
• View info on proxy servers.
• View info on lists.
• View info on the relevant cloud.
• View info on the relevant folder.

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

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

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

The smart-web-security.user role enables viewing info on Smart Web Security resources, as well as connecting such security profiles to protected resources.

Users with this role can:

• View info on security profiles in Smart Web Security and connect them to protected resources.
• View the list of resources to which a security profile is connected.
• View info on WAF profiles.
• View info on ARL profiles.
• View info on proxy servers.
• View info on lists.
• View info on the relevant cloud.
• View info on the relevant folder.

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

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

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

The smart-web-security.editor role enables using Smart Web Security resources and managing them.

Users with this role can:

• View info on security profiles in Smart Web Security, create, modify, and delete them, as well as connect such security profiles to protected resources.
• View the list of resources to which a security profile is connected.
• View info on WAF profiles, as well as create, modify, use, and delete them.
• View info on ARL profiles, as well as create, modify, use, and delete them.
• View info on proxy servers, as well as create, modify, and delete them.
• View info on lists, as well as create, modify, use, and delete them.
• View info on the relevant cloud.
• View info on the relevant folder.

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

To enable or disable logging in a security profile, you also need the logging.writer role or higher for the log group to which logs are transferred.

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

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

The smart-web-security.admin role enables using Smart Web Security resources and managing them.

Users with this role can:

• View info on security profiles in Smart Web Security, create, modify, and delete them, as well as connect such security profiles to protected resources.
• View the list of resources to which a security profile is connected.
• View info on WAF profiles, as well as create, modify, use, and delete them.
• View info on ARL profiles, as well as create, modify, use, and delete them.
• View info on proxy servers, as well as create, modify, and delete them.
• View info on lists, as well as create, modify, use, and delete them.
• View info on the relevant cloud.
• View info on the relevant folder.

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

To enable or disable logging in a security profile, you also need the logging.writer role or higher for the log group to which logs are transferred.

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.

viewerviewer

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

This role 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 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 includes the editor permissions.

Instead of primitive roles, we recommend using service roles with more granular access control, allowing you to implement the least privilege principle.

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