Proper deployment of your classification system requires the coordination of the administrator responsible for managing the data that is scanned or monitored, the classification analyst responsible for managing the taxonomies in the system, the business owners responsible for verifying and managing the categorization of resources, and the security or compliance officer responsible for oversight. You should also consider how you plan to make changes over time. See Managing the Life Cycle of Taxonomies and Categories
Action | Role | For More Information |
Activate classification in your deployment. | Data Governance Administrator | Activating Classification |
Set up scanning and change watching for classification on your servers | Data Governance Administrator | Enable and Disable Automatic Classification on Specific Managed Hosts |
Create taxonomies and add categories | Classification Analyst | Creating Taxonomies |
Make categories available for manual categorization if desired | Classification Analyst | Setting Up Manual Categorization |
Add rules and associate them to categories, and adjust the category threshold if needed. | Classification Analyst | Implementing Rules for Automated Categorization |
Manage your classification taxonomy | Classification Analyst | Working with Classification Taxonomies |
Test your rules and categories to ensure desired results | Classification Analyst | Testing and Reviewing Automated Classification |
Make categories available for automated categorization | Classification Analyst | Making a Category Available to the Automated System |
Build polices, attestations and reports to help secure resources | Compliance Officer Security Officer |
See the Identity Management User Guide |
Refine the categorization of resources | Business Owner Classification Analyst |
Working with the Categorization of Your Resources |
Manage the life cycle of your categories | Classification Analyst | Managing the Life Cycle of Taxonomies and Categories |
Careful planning and coordination is required to get the most out of classification in Quest One Identity Manager Data Governance Edition. Ideally, one or more well-organized taxonomies will be deployed in your organization, and used to categorize resources of interest in your environment.
You must be assigned the role of Classification Analyst, Classification Officer, or create a customized role that includes relevant permissions in order to create or modify a taxonomy. |
A taxonomy is a set of related categories, organized as a tree structure. The top node represents the taxonomy as a whole, and each branch is a category. Although taxonomies tend to be tall rather than deep, you can have subcategories nested as you need.
All categories in a taxonomy should be related in some way. Create a separate taxonomy for each related set of categories. This makes it easier for users to understand their resources’ categorization.
To view the taxonomies in your environment using the Web Portal
To return a list of taxonomies in your environment using PowerShell
Using the Web Portal or Quest.Classification PowerShell snap in, you can create and edit taxonomies. See Deploying a Taxonomy before publishing any taxonomies in your production Data Governance environment.
You can work with taxonomies using the following methods:
In Identity Manager, you can create your own taxonomies using either the Taxonomy Manager in the Web Portal, or the PowerShell cmdlets found in the Quest.Classification snap-in.
When you create a taxonomy, you are providing the base for the category tree, as well as creating a category that could be applied to resources. For example, if you are creating a PHI taxonomy, you will then add categories to it to create the desired taxonomy. However, if you want, you can assign rules to the top level node, PHI, for it to be used in automated categorization, or you can make it available for manual categorization. There are a number of parameters associated with a category. See Working with Categories on page 30 for more information. These parameters only affect the use of the top node of the taxonomy tree applied as a category, and do not apply to the taxonomy as a whole. For example, when you select Publish this category, it does not make the entire taxonomy available, only the top node.
To create a taxonomy using the Web Portal
To create a taxonomy using PowerShell
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