Persona-Based Approach

SiteContinuity uses a persona-based approach and the roles are segregated according to the responsibilities. By segregating roles, SiteContinuity helps organizations streamline workflows and effectively manage both data protection and disaster recovery processes.

Cohesity recommends that you create custom administrator roles with specific privileges:

Backup Admin	DR Admin
Backup Admin roles are created in the Cohesity clusters when setting up primary and DR Cohesity clusters. For more information, Set Up Primary and DR Cohesity Clusters.	DR Admin roles are created in Helios before setting up disaster recovery workflows in SiteContinuity. For more information, see Custom Roles.
Backup Admins are assigned the Data Protection privilege.	DR Admins are assigned the Manage SiteContinuity privilege.
A Backup Admin's privileges are restricted to setting up local Cohesity clusters, creating, modifying, deleting Protection Groups and policies, and deleting runs, among other data protection tasks.	A DR Admin's privileges are limited to all the DR tasks within SiteContinuity.
Backup Admins cannot access Helios or SiteContinuity or perform any DR tasks.	DR Admins cannot access the Cohesity clusters or perform any of the data protection tasks that a Backup Admin can.