In NetIQ Identity Governance, a permission represents an application entitlement for review.
In file systems, the word permission is sometimes used to describe an access right that an identity (user or group) is granted to a file system resource (file, folder, share), such as Read Access or Write permissions.
To avoid confusion, the terms access and rights are used in place of permission when referring to file system access in Data Access Governance. For example, the Identity Governance collector used with File Reporter is referred to as the File System Access collector.