EAM Terminology

The following concepts are important to understand emergency access management:

• Firefighter: the user who requires emergency access

• Firefighter ID: the user ID with elevated privileges.

• Firefighting: the act of using a Firefighter ID to perform tasks in an emergency

• Owner: the user responsible for a Firefighter ID and the assignment of controllers and Firefighters

• Controller: the user who reviews and approves (if required) the log files generated from firefighting activities

• Centralized Firefighting: using the GRC system as the centralized console through which Firefighters can logon to different system for firefighting

• Decentralized Firefighting: Firefighters can directly logon to the plug-in systems for firefighting; using the GRC system only for maintaining emergency access assignments and reporting