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# [Leading Practices for Role-Specific User Management](https://www.cutcher.com.au/insights-and-news/leading-practices-for-role-specific-user-management)

 Written by [Michael Graham, Partner, Business Systems Division](https://www.cutcher.com.au/insights-and-news/author/michael-graham) | 28 October 2025

Managing user access in Ostendo is critical to maintaining data integrity.

The other key benefits of Role-Specific User Management are:

- **Improved Security**: Reduces the risk of unauthorised access.
- **Operational Efficiency**: Users focus only on the relevant tasks.
- **Simplified Auditing**: Easier to track and manage permissions.
- **Reduced Risk of System Breakage**: Eliminates dependency on inherited users, ensuring system stability when users leave.
- **Scalability**: New users can be onboarded quickly with predefined roles.

While “inherited” permissions may seem like a convenient shortcut, they can introduce significant risks, especially as user responsibilities evolve.

To avoid these risks, you should adopt a role-based access** **model. Here is how to implement it effectively:

- **Define Clear Roles - **Identify distinct roles within your business, for example “Sales, Warehouse, Production, Finance”, each with a clearly defined scope of access.
- **Create Role-Specific Permissions - **Manually assign only the necessary modules, screens, and actions to each role.
- **Test Before Deployment - **Assign new roles to test users first to validate that permissions are correct and workflows are unaffected.
- **Review Regularly - **Schedule periodic reviews of user roles and permissions to ensure they reflect current responsibilities and organisational changes.
- **Minimize “Super Users” - **Avoid giving “Administrator” access. Instead, create segmented admin roles (e.g., Finance_Admin, Ops_Admin) to reduce risk.

 If you required assistant defining these roles or configuring in your Ostendo system, [we’d be happy to help](mailto:softwaresupport@cutcher.com.au).

 

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