Reserved Security Levels
The reserved security levels are mostly created for you, and have special rules that determine when a user is granted that level. They can't be renamed or deleted.
Public
All users are always granted the Public security level, even if they are not authenticated (logged in). Public security level indicates open access and the least amount of security. A session that only has the Public security level is not authenticated. This is similar to being a guest or anonymous. Unless another security level is required, guest access will be allowed. The Public security level is the ancestor of all other security levels in the hierarchy.
Authenticated
The Authenticated Security Level is a child of the Public Security Level. If a session has authenticated against the configured IdP successfully, the Authenticated Security Level is granted. Users are required to be logged in in order to have access to this level.
Authenticated/Roles
The Roles level is a special level which itself has no special rules, but it acts as a parent placeholder for potential roles returned from the IdP. This particular level is not configurable; however there can be levels added underneath the Roles level as children. These levels should correspond to the names of roles that would be expected from the IdP. If the IdP provides role information, these roles are automatically mapped to the child security levels underneath Authenticated/Roles. The names of the roles must match exactly for them to be correctly mapped to. For example, if you authenticate against the Ignition IdP configured to delegate to the Internal user source, and your user was granted the roles “A”, and “B”, you would have (at a minimum) the following security levels granted to you:
Note: You can only add one level of children to the Roles Security Level. Custom Roles can be nested as deeply as you want.
SecurityZones
The SecurityZones level is another special placeholder level that itself has no rules but is a parent for all of the Security Zones on the Gateway. Security Zones are automatically pulled in from the Gateway. A Security Zone is a list of Gateways, Computers, or IP addresses that are defined and grouped together. This group is a zone on the Gateway Network, which can have additional policies and restrictions placed on it. Security Zones provide a way to bridge the IdP method of permissions with location-based permission modeling. You cannot add, edit, or remove the SecurityZones node or any node in the SecurityZones sub-tree.