One Employee and Several Applications: An Information Management Case Study

In recent years, the use of Role-based Access Control (RBAC) has evolved within organizations such as the Government of Canada (GoC). However, it is not clear that existing on-boarding and off-boarding workflows have been influenced by the emergence of this technology. In this work, an Information Management (IM) case study is executed for one employee in the GoC. Results are summarized by human resource and staffing position and the advantages of onboarding and off-boarding by staffing position are discussed. As the number of applications by employee increase, so too does the cost of the administrative processes. RBAC reduces the cost of administration at the authorization layer and its concepts can be applied at the authentication layer.