About Security Users

A Security User is an individual in your organization who has a user account for accessing GE Digital APM. A GE Digital APM Security User account stores the ID and password for the user, which are used to authenticate the Security User when he or she logs in, and identifying information including the name, contact information, and job details.

Creating Security User accounts is the first step in configuring system security. After you have created Security Users, you can assign those Security Users to Security Groups, organizing Security Users according to their roles within the system.

After you set up Security Users and Groups, you can assign data permissions for those Security Users and Groups.

Each Security User account is actually a record that belongs to the Security User family. When you create a Security User, three things happen:

A Security User record is created.
A corresponding Human Resource record is created.
A link between the Security User record and the Human Resource record is created using the Is a User relationship family.

Because Security User records are actual records in GE Digital APM, they can be searched, queried, viewed, and modified just like any other type of record.