Control Tower permissions (in preview)

Any user with a global role that has the Product Rights > Control Tower global permission can access the Control Tower product pages. Certain tasks, however, require specific permissions.

Global permissions

Global permission Description Required license New license

Product Rights > Control Tower

Allows users full access to the Control Tower product pages.

Read only Viewer

By default, only the Sysadmin global role has this global permission. There is no out-of-the-box Control Tower-related global role. We recommend that you do one of the following:

For guidance on how to do this, go to Set up Control Tower.

Resource permissions

Resource permission Description Required license New license

Asset > Control > Activate and Run

Allows users to enable (activate) a control query.

Any user with the Control Tower > Product Rights permission can create a control query, but this resource permission is required to enable it.

Standard Creator
Asset > Add Allows user to create Managed Control assets. Standard Creator
Asset > Remove Allows user to deleted Managed Control assets. Standard Creator
Asset > Update Allows user to edit Managed Control assets, including configuring controls. Standard Creator

The out-of-the-box Control Manager resource role has this resource permission.