Grants Management - Security Grants Management System Security Security is a primary concern in the Grants Management System concept and design. The goal is to provide flexibility to individual institutions while reducing the chance for unauthorized entry and data corruption. Features of the GMS to meet this goal are listed below.
Institutions are responsible for managing accounts and privileges for their users.
The variety in size and organizational structure of institutions that use the GMS makes it impossible to create a single strategy for creating accounts and determining user privileges. The GMS Solution is to give full control to the institution AO's and allow them to manage account access and privileges based on their internal policies and guidelines. The AO may choose to remove themselves from the everyday management of these accounts and privileges by delegating this authority to someone else. While the AO accounts will have a full set of privileges, the investigator accounts will need to have their privileges set by the institition. Accounts needed by institution staff responsible for processing grants will need to be created and assigned privileges.