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Managing Role-Based Access Control Invite a User

Last updated: Jul 17, 2025

Invite a User

Organization administrators can invite a user to join an organization.

This task allows you to add new users to groups and assign them roles, making it useful for onboarding new users. A maximum of 20 users can be invited at once using this task.

Procedure

1

In the Security Cloud Control platform menu, choose Platform Services > Platform Management.

2

Choose Access Management > Administrator Access.
3

Under the Administrators tab, click the +Invite button.
4

In the Add user details pane, provide the first name, last name, and email address of the user.

To proceed to the next step, ensure that you have entered the email address in the correct format and the email address doesn't already exist in the organization.

You can add up to 20 user accounts, using the Add row option.
5

Click Next.

This step enables the Add to groups option.
6

(Optional) In the Add invited users to groups pane, choose a group or groups from the Group(s) drop-down list. This lets you add the invited users to the selected groups.

You can create a new group and add the users to the new group:

Enter the details to create a group.

  1. To create a new group, click Create new group.

  2. In the Create New Group slide-in pane, enter the group name and description.

  3. Click the Create group button.

    The new group is added to the list of groups to which the invited user will be added.
7

Click Next.

This step enables the Assign roles option.
8

In the Assign roles to invited users pane:

  1. Choose a product from the Product or service drop-down list.

  2. To assign the user one or more roles for the selected product, choose a role from the Roles drop-down list.

  3. To add more product roles to the user, click +Assign another role and choose the product and role as you did previously.
9

Click Finish & invite.

An email is sent to the invited users, specifying an activation link that expires in one hour.

Under Administrators tab, select Pending invitations from the drop-down list to view the invitations that haven't been activated yet.

If you have invited a user who already exists in Security Cloud Control, that user appears in the list of Current Accounts on the Administrators page.
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