Security and access control
Protect innovation workflows with enterprise-grade security and governance
Security and access control ensure that innovation activities remain protected while enabling collaboration across the organization. Role-based permissions, secure authentication, and controlled access help organizations manage sensitive information, protect intellectual property, and maintain compliance. This allows teams to collaborate confidently while maintaining the governance and security standards required at enterprise scale.
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Why security and access control matter
Innovation initiatives often involve sensitive ideas, strategic projects, and confidential data. Without strong security and access control, organizations risk exposing information, losing governance oversight, or limiting collaboration.
Without strong security and access control
- Sensitive innovation data can be exposed to the wrong users
- Teams struggle to control who can access ideas and initiatives
- Governance becomes difficult as participation grows
- Compliance and security risks increase across the platform
With security and access control
- Role-based access ensures the right people see the right information
- Secure authentication protects access to innovation workflows
- Governance remains clear as participation scales
- Organizations protect sensitive ideas and strategic initiatives
What you get with security and access control
Security and access control provide the governance and protection needed to manage innovation activities safely across the organization. Teams can collaborate openly while ensuring sensitive information remains protected and access is properly controlled.
- Role-based permissions to control access to ideas, initiatives, and data
- Secure authentication and single sign-on for trusted platform access
- Controlled visibility across teams, departments, and stakeholders
- Governance support for managing innovation participation at scale
- Protection of sensitive innovation data and intellectual property

Who it’s for
Primarily designed for innovation teams responsible for structure, decisions, and measurable progress. Secondarily for organizational stakeholders who guide strategy, allocate resources, and evaluate results.
Innovation Managers
Own the innovation process and require full visibility across funnels, governance, decisions, and portfolio impact.
Innovation Leaders
Align innovation with strategy and need clear portfolio steering based on value, risk, and evidence.
Innovation Specialists
Execute initiatives and need structured workflows for intake, validation, evaluation, and next-step clarity.
Strategy & Transformation Teams
Ensure innovation supports strategic priorities and require transparency into progress and expected outcomes.
Portfolio, PMO & Governance
Oversee decision frameworks and resource allocation, requiring structured criteria and stage visibility.
Business & Product Leaders
Make implementation decisions and need clarity on ownership, business cases, risks, and expected impact.
AI enhances security and access control
AI helps organizations manage security and access more effectively by monitoring activity patterns, supporting governance decisions, and reducing manual oversight. This ensures that innovation workflows remain secure while still enabling collaboration across teams.
AI Capabilities
- Detection of unusual access patterns and activity signals
- Recommendations for improving role-based access settings
- Automated monitoring of governance and participation activity
- Insights into collaboration and permission structures
- Support for identifying potential security risks
- Clear summaries of platform activity and access changes
- Reduced manual effort in managing platform governance
- Improved oversight across innovation workflows
Impact
- Stronger protection of innovation data and initiatives
- Better governance across growing innovation programs
- Clearer visibility into access and participation activity
- Reduced administrative effort for platform management
- Improved confidence in secure collaboration
- Scalable security as innovation participation grows
Key features for security and access control
Role-based access control
Ensure the right people see the right information
Role-based permissions allow organizations to control who can view, edit, evaluate, or manage ideas and initiatives across the platform.
- Control access based on roles and responsibilities
- Different permissions for contributors, reviewers, and administrators
- Secure collaboration across teams and departments
- Clear governance across innovation workflows

Single sign-on (SSO)
Secure authentication through your identity provider
Single sign-on enables users to access the platform using their existing enterprise credentials, improving security and simplifying access.
- Integration with enterprise identity providers
- Secure authentication for all platform users
- Reduced password management complexity
- Consistent login experience across systems

Controlled visibility
Manage access to sensitive innovation content
Organizations can define which teams or individuals can access specific ideas, initiatives, or innovation programs.
- Restrict access to confidential initiatives
- Control visibility across teams and departments
- Protect sensitive innovation information
- Enable collaboration while maintaining governance

Enterprise-grade platform security
Protect innovation data across the platform
Security capabilities ensure that innovation activities remain protected while supporting collaboration at enterprise scale.
- Secure data storage and platform infrastructure
- Protection of innovation data and intellectual property
- Governance support for innovation programs
- Reliable security for enterprise innovation environments

Product Tour: Platform foundation
Build innovation on a strong and scalable foundation. Connect collaboration through Microsoft 365 integration, use AI assistants to support decisions and reduce manual effort, and connect reporting and enterprise systems through Power BI connector and APIs.
Microsoft 365 integration
Connect innovation workflows with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 so collaboration, communication, and execution stay aligned with daily work.
AI assistants
Strengthen decision-making, automation, and content support with AI that works across modules and stages of the innovation process.
Power BI connector and APIs
Connect innovation data with reporting tools and external systems to improve visibility, integration, and enterprise level flexibility.
Explore the full Platform foundation tour
See how Microsoft 365 integration, AI assistants, and Power BI connector and APIs work together to create a scalable, connected, and intelligent platform foundation.
Ready to see it live?
A short walkthrough that shows how structure, transparency, and dashboards make progress visible and decisions easier.

See Accept Mission in action
Run your innovations with structure and transparency. In a short demo, see how idea management, project portfolio management, and idea collecting connect to funnels, scorecards, and dashboards so progress stays visible and decisions get easier.
- Structured funnels
- Transparent scoring
- Dashboards for progress
What you will see
- Idea collecting that feeds a structured funnel
- Transparent evaluation with scorecards and clear decisions
- Portfolio views and dashboards for leadership reporting





