Working With Applications | Isora GRC Knowledge Base

You may want to include applications in your assessments.

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Applications are inventory objects that belongs to a single unit. These could include locally developed and/or commercial products, or even systems consisting of multiple software applications working together. In an application assessment, the application itself is the target of the questions; in the enrichment portion of the assessment, the application object is classified based on the type(s) of data it has access to.

Working With Applications on the New UI

To work with applications, go to Inventory → Applications on the main menu.

From here, you can see a list of applications in inventory. Superusers can work with all applications. People with certain roles can work with applications that belong to their unit. Applications can also have individual people named as owners. The following table summarizes the access to applications^1.

	Create	View	Update	Delete
Superuser	Yes - for any unit	Yes - all	Yes - all	Yes - all
Assessment Manager	Yes - for my unit	Yes - my unit’s	Yes - my unit’s	Yes - my unit’s
IT Staff	Yes - for my unit	Yes - my unit’s	Yes - my unit’s	Yes - my unit’s
Unit Head	Yes - for my unit	Yes - my unit’s	Yes - my unit’s	Yes - my unit’s
Application Owner (individual)	No	Yes - mine	Yes - mine	Yes - mine
Anyone else	No	No	No	No

^1Application permissions are currently under development, and you may see slightly different behavior on your system.

Application Details

To view or edit an application, click its row in the table to bring up its sidebar.

Working With Apps on the Old UI

To work with applications, click on the Apps tab of the Inventory page.

From here, you can click the name of an individual applications or the info button next to it to see more details. Superusers can edit any entry. Application owners and assessment managers or IT staff of the owning unit can also edit applications.