...
The protected resources themselves can be a wide variety of different types of objects ranging from accounts, groups, computers, to Azure subscriptions, SharePoint Online Site Collections, and many other types. Each of these protected resources is inserted as a record into the Resource table in the Identity Warehouse and assigned a unique value for its ResourceID and ResourceGUID. The ResourceGUID is most often the actual unique identifier of the object in its external system if available in GUID format. From now on, we’ll refer to protected resources simply as resources to align with EmpowerID component terminology.
they are
from which system a resource Also, important to note is that each resource record is assigned a ResourceTypeID which defines the type of resource or object. EmpowerID maintains a ResourceType record as a definition of the types of protected resources it can manage and secure. The Resource Type of a resource become important later when we discuss inventory of permissions for resources and managing who has what level of access to view and manage these resources using EmowerID.
selected object types and their information from the systems a customer desires to manage.
...