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Custom Roles (Role Management)

Updated over a week ago

Custom Roles allow admins to go beyond predefined system roles and create tailored permission sets for specific use cases. This is useful when standard roles don’t fully match your organization’s structure or responsibilities.

💡Note: Custom Roles are available to admins only.


What are Custom Roles?

Custom Roles are standalone roles that:

  • Can be edited at any time

  • Override all existing system role permissions

  • Cannot be combined with other roles

  • Apply the same permissions to every user assigned to them


🔍Accessing Role Management

  1. Go to Company Settings.

  2. Select Roles Management.

Here you can view, create, edit, and delete Custom Roles.


➕Creating a Custom Role

  1. Click Create Custom Role.

  2. Enter the role name and description.

  3. Choose a system role template as a starting point.

  4. Configure permissions across three categories:

    • Third-Party Risk Management

    • My Company

    • Company Settings

For each permission, select one of:

  • No Access

  • View

  • View & Edit


✏️Editing a Custom Role

Custom Roles can be edited at any time from the Roles Management page.

⚠️ Any changes will immediately affect all users assigned to this role.


Assigning a Custom Role

For existing users

  • Open the user’s profile in User Management

  • Select the Custom Role

For new users

  • Choose the Custom Role during the invitation process

Custom Roles replace all existing permissions for that user.


Deleting a Custom Role

A Custom Role can only be deleted when:

  • No active users are assigned to it

  • No pending invitations are associated with it

Once those conditions are met, the delete option becomes available.


Custom Roles empower admins to tailor access, improve self-service management, and ensure the right users have the right permissions across your Panorays environment.


Permissions Breakdown

Category

Sub Сategory

Capabilities

Third Party Risk Management

General Management Capabilities

Under this section, the following permissions are included:

  • Supplier Management: add, update, and delete suppliers

  • Access to Findings, Assets, and Security Profile

  • Cyber-related Pages: Dark Web Mentions, Cyber News

  • Task Management: manage Remediation and General Tasks

  • Supply Chain Discovery: access and manage

  • Cyber Posture Assessment: ability to trigger assessments

  • Documents and Files: access and manage

  • Approval Snapshot per supplier

Third Party Questionnaires

Send, update, and review questionnaires submitted by your suppliers.

Internal Questionnaires

Send and submit internal questionnaires within the organization.

Relationships

View and assign supplier relationships based on the predefined company-level relationship list.

Business Impact

Define and update the business impact (inherent risk) for each supplier.

Third Party Status

Update the approval status of the specified supplier.

Custom Alerts

Set up custom alerts for your supplier chain based on risk changes, improvements, or critical findings.

Portfolios

Create portfolios and assign suppliers to the appropriate portfolio for better management and control.

Questionnaire Templates

View or edit the company Questionnaire Template Library: create new templates, update existing ones, and archive redundant templates.

Reports

Access the Dashboard and Customized Reports to view or edit reports for individual suppliers or across multiple suppliers.

Risk Insights

Access to Cyber events organized in an aggregated view, allowing you to see their direct impact on your organization, your direct suppliers, and indirect suppliers, and take action accordingly.

My Company

Security Profile

Under this section, the following permissions are included:

  • Manage your own Security Profile

  • Access to Findings page

  • Access to Assets

  • Manage Remediation Tasks (respond to evaluators)

  • Respond to and submit questionnaires sent by other evaluators

Trust Center

Create and update your Trust Center, and share it with potential prospects and customers.

Company Settings

Team Management

Manage User and Role Management, including:

  • Inviting new users to the system

  • Assigning users to specific roles

  • Defining notification settings per user

  • Creating and updating custom roles and assigning them to relevant users

  • Managing user status, including activating or disabling access

Internal Notes and Comments

Create and edit internal notes and external comments for Questionnaires, Supplier General Notes, and Findings Notes.

License Usage

Access the License Usage page, showing purchased licenses and their actual usage for each company.

Custom Factors

Ability to define Risk Policies and Custom Factors, including applying them to specific suppliers and overriding supplier settings.

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