Manage Account Resources
- Last UpdatedJan 21, 2025
- 6 minute read
Group your resources to simplify the management of enterprise accounts and manage user access.
Overview
Organizations often have multiple departments or teams that require access to the Imperva account. An organization may be subdivided based on functional activities, product lines, processes, or geographical location. Each department may be required to perform a different set of actions, and require different levels of access rights.
Sub accounts enable you to group and manage resources together based on department, function, or other business criteria, and assign users to only those resources they are responsible for managing or require access to. For example, a security officer in a large enterprise company can group sites together based on business department, to be accessed only by the respective team members responsible for those sites.
You can manage resources in a sub account as a group, and set the following at the sub account level:
Sub accounts are intended to be used to manage resources belonging to the same organizational entity as the parent account.
Pricing plan and billing data are presented in the parent account only. The parent account's Subscription page reflects usage of resources from the parent account and all sub accounts.
Sample flow
Create sub accounts. (Account Admin) Create a sub account for each department or group that needs to access the Imperva account.
Create account users. (Account Admin) Add users to the account.
Add users to sub accounts. In each sub account, add users as needed and configure the appropriate permissions for each user.
Add or move sites. Add new sites or move existing resources to each sub account as required.
The Account Admin or any user with the appropriate permissions can add users and resources to a sub account.
Example: For a worldwide organization with many brands:
- Create a sub account for each brand.
- Create users in the parent account.
- Grant permissions to manage sub accounts to the security and network engineers.
- Add each brand's sites/domains to the relevant sub account.
- Add the application or site owners as users to the relevant sub accounts and configure their permissions.
Manage sub accounts
| What do you want to do? | Details |
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| View and manage sub accounts |
To open the Sub Accounts page: Log in to your account in the Imperva Cloud Security Console.
Tip: To navigate to the parent account from a sub account, click the breadcrumbs at the top of the page.
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| Add a sub account |
On the Sub Accounts page, click Add Sub Account and enter the required details. |
| Delete a sub account |
On the Sub Accounts page, select the checkbox next to the sub account you want to delete, and click the Delete button. You cannot delete a sub account that contains sites. |
| View bandwidth usage per sub account | On the Sub Accounts page, you can view Always-on and On-demand bandwidth usage for each sub account. |
| Add a new site to a sub account |
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| Move an existing site to a sub account |
You can move a site from the parent account to a sub account (or vice versa), or from one sub account to another.
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Manage sub account users and permissions
Note: For most accounts, permissions are now managed using roles. For details, see Manage Roles and Permissions.
For details on creating users, see Manage Account Users.