Introduction¶

The TIER Access Governance Practicum (401) describes a series of real world access governance use cases that students can use to demonstrate knowledge of how to translate natural language policy into the appropriate digital policy in Grouper. The access governance practicum incorporates much of the TIER IAM suite of components and provides a “full TIER stack” experience.

The Practicum consists of 4 labs that will allow students to apply knowledge they have learned from other Grouper courses. They will present real-world access control scenarios. Instructors will present techniques and possible solutions to these problems.

Conventions¶

In the documentation, many references will be made to Grouper groups and folders (stems). These references will sometimes take the form of a complete path to the referenced object, such as app:vpn:ref:ad_hoc. Other times, the references will be relative to the current context under discussion. For example, when referring to the same application-specific reference group for the VPN service, the notation …:ref:ad_hoc may be used to indicate that a portion of the full path has been omitted.