OSA Actors

Generic roles used across OSA patterns to ensure consistency and clarity.

The OSA framework uses generic roles called "actors" to ensure consistency across patterns.

"An actor is a prototypical business role...OSA patterns visualize with actors, the set of responsibility that can be assigned to a prototypical role, in a given setup."

Actor Model

We have created an actor model (version 06) that you can download as a PDF.

Reference Model Evaluation

Before developing our actor model, we evaluated existing reference frameworks against specific criteria:

  • Security-relevant actors must be present
  • Public availability without costly fees
  • Multi-industry/multi-country adoption
  • Independence from single-company control

Models evaluated: - CLASP roles (OWASP) - ITIL v3 roles

Contribution

We welcome community feedback on actor definitions - please get in touch via our contact email.