Access and permissions

What solutions does ValidMind offer?

ValidMind is a library and cloud platform available in multiple editions catering to different organizational needs:

• Standard Edition: Our introductory offering, providing essential features and services.
• Enterprise Edition: Builds upon the Standard Edition by adding features tailored for large-scale organizations.
• Virtual Private ValidMind (VPV):¹ Our most secure offering for organizations requiring a higher level of privacy, such as financial services handling sensitive data. Includes all Enterprise Edition features but in a separate, isolated ValidMind environment. VPV accounts do not share resources with accounts outside the VPV.

¹ Virtual Private ValidMind (VPV)

ValidMind does not send any personally identifiable information (PII) through our Python API.

Access to any edition is facilitated through AWS PrivateLink, which provides private connectivity between ValidMind and your on-premises networks without exposing your traffic to the public internet.²

² Configure AWS PrivateLink

How do I get access to ValidMind?

1. Register with ValidMind

• First register with our cloud-hosted ValidMind Platform,³ which enables you to work with model documentation or configure ValidMind for your organization.
• With an email address or a Google, GitHub, or Microsoft account, you can gain access to ValidMind either by signing up independently, or by accepting an invite from another member of your organization.

³ Register with ValidMind

2. Log in to ValidMind

• Once you’ve signed up or accepted an invite, log in to the ValidMind Platform.⁴
• ValidMind supports logging in via both the public interent and private network endpoints.

⁴ Log in to ValidMind

What are organizations within ValidMind?

Access to the ValidMind Platform where your model inventory is hosted is associated with an organization,⁵ which encompasses all your users, groups, and business units.

⁵ Set up your organization

• As a user,⁶ you can belong to multiple organizations.
• You will see the option to switch between organizations only if you belong to more than one organization.

⁶ Manage users

⁷ Manage permissions

By default, the Customer Admin role⁷ has sufficient permissions to manage your organization.

How are users added to ValidMind organizations?

• ValidMind provides a built-in user management interface that allows new users to be registered on the ValidMind Platform and assigned user roles⁸ and user groups.⁹
• User roles, user groups, and access permissions are configured during initial onboarding and can be updated at any time.
• In addition, ValidMind also provides support for Single Sign-On (SSO) integration as part of our Enterprise and our Virtual Private ValidMind (VPV) edition.

⁸ Manage roles

⁹ Manage groups

How do user roles, user groups, and access permissions work?

• Users belong to groups which determine which models they can see, and have roles with attached permissions which define the level of access they have to features.
• Groups are segments of users with the ability to view models associated with that group. Access to granular features in the platform within a group’s set of models is further defined by roles and permissions.
• Roles are a named set of permissions that determine your users’ access to features within the platform based on your organization’s structure.
• Permissions dictate user access controls within the platform, and are associated with specific roles.

By default, the Customer Admin role has sufficient permissions to manage access permissions for users, groups, and roles.

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