Permission Assist FAQF.A.Q.
This article is the result of the questions asked during a Connections webinar about Permission Assist. Click here to listen to the recording of the session. What is Permission Assist?Permission Assist is an identity and access management (IAM) platform specifically designed for community banks and credit unions.Financial institutions are often drowning in fragmented data, spreadsheets, and manual processes. With Permission Assist, you can centralize, organize, and streamline user and permission data across your entire application ecosystem—even legacy or siloed systems.How does Permission Assist source user and permission data?Permission Assist gathers data directly from your third-party applications using plugins (integrations/connectors). For example, it connects to Active Directory using an API. When a direct connection isn’t available, it imports data from reports (like PDFs or other formats).What are access models?An access model is a template of authorized access across all appl